Gujarat government is considering to give rebate to citizens of municipalities against the advance payment of property tax. The government has recently formed a commissionerate for the development of infrastructure in towns that are governed by municipalities, and the policy of tax rebate will be brought in by the commissionerate.
Sources in the commissionerate of municipalities said, "The Gujarat government is seriously thinking of announcing the policy for rebate against advance tax payment in municipalities too, on the line of municipal corporations. Municipalities have very less tax recoveries as they have no proper system for the same. If citizens get rebate, they would be motivated to pay taxes regularly and in advance, so that the municipalities will have their corpus increased."
The commissioner of municipalities administration, MS Patel said, "Many reforms are under process and once it gets approval from different departments, the announcement will be made."
