MCD makes geo-tagging of properties mandatory to avail property tax exemption
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Tuesday said it has made geo-tagging of all kinds of properties mandatory to avail of a 10% property tax exemption. The civic agency said if any taxpayer fails to geo-tag their properties by January 31, they will not be able to avail of the 10% rebate on the lump sum advance payment of tax in the next financial year by June 30.
In case a property has already been geo-tagged by MCD officers, there is no need to further geo-tag it, the MCD statement added. The MCD also advised the property owners—who have not registered their assets to the property tax portal of the civic body—to get their properties registered, generate UPIC, and geo-tag their properties.
In case a property owner fails to register his/her property by January 31, the civic body will take legal action against such defaulters besides proceeding against them to recover the tax. The MCD further said that the geo-tagging of properties aims to provide a location-based identification of individual properties and will enable better provisioning of service delivery to the citizens by the civic agency.
It is important to note that geo-tagging of properties refers to assigning a unique Latitude–Longitude to a property on a GIS map by selecting the current location against any UPIC so that all properties have their location identified against a unique Latitude-Longitude position. The MCD has launched a mobile app for geo-tagging all residential and non-residential properties.
Property owners need to download the mobile app--Unified Mobile App (UMA) from the Google Play Store or visit the website at https://mcdonline.nic.in/mcdapp.html. Also Read | India to become third largest economy in the world by 2030: S&P Global To be able
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