Chandigarh’s Municipal Corporation is going to take initiative to improve tax payment system in the city beautiful and very soon people would able to pay their tax with the help of a mobile app.  This app will benefit around 23,000 commercial tax payers and they can pay their property taxes with the help of a mobile app. People will get alert message on their phone for property taxes and about last dates.

Satellite Imagery System:

Satellite imagery system will be going to use to improve the property tax system. Chandigarh’s Municipal Corporation department said that this system will provide a database to government authorities and this will help to increase their efficiency by providing a highly accurate base map. The MC has written to the chief architect department of the Chandigarh administration to provide satellite imagery from National Remote Sensing, Hyderabad for physical measurements. According to the sources notice dates, period, information of rebate period and penalty period will be fixed in the app in such a way that every property tax payer gets information on time.

Mobile App For Tax 

From June 1, 2018, around 23,000 commercial tax payers of the city will able to pay the tax through a mobile app and from this date they will start getting alerts and dates of tax payments on their mobile phone. This work will be done by the Noida-based GIS Consortium India Private Limited and the work to this company has already allotted. The cost decided for this project is 1 crore and they will survey the city by next week. This selected company will complete this work with in a year. This system will computerize the taxation department of MC and all records will also be computerized.