Madurai Corporation Submits Property Tax Verification Plan to High Court

Quick Summary

• Madurai Corporation submitted a detailed compliance report and action plan to the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on property tax assessments.
• 100 teams comprising officials such as tax collectors, technical assistants, and sanitary supervisors will assess properties across 100 wards in a phased manner.
• Training was provided to staff on updated assessment procedures; senior officials were assigned inspection duties for thorough oversight.
• Sub-committees are established within each of the five zones of Madurai Corporation under leadership equating to Revenue Divisional Officer ranks, backed by engineers and assistant revenue officers.
• A central committee with 11 members supervised by the Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) will detect irregularities or under-assessments in property tax calculations. Reports from these assessments go to the Municipal Administration Directorate via higher authorities within the corporation hierarchy.
• Steps include street-wise identification, reassessment protocols, detection of escaped assessments, digital data collection processes, and strict adherence to Urban Local Bodies Rules (Tamil Nadu), 2023.
• The Division Bench directed all local bodies across Tamil Nadu-including Corporations,Municipalities,and Town Panchayats-to adopt this action plan for addressing property tax discrepancies statewide.
• The court also instructed an SIT probe into a ₹200 crore property tax scam uncovered between 2022-2024 following a petition filed by AIADMK Councillor T. Ravi.

Indian Opinion Analysis
The proactive steps detailed by Madurai Corporation reflect heightened accountability in addressing systemic weaknesses in urban governance-specifically around financial management via property taxes in Tamil Nadu’s municipal framework. Establishing multidisciplinary teams combined with structured digital protocols suggests progress towards minimizing error-prone manual processes prone to irregularities or fraudulence as alleged here repeatedly under civic litigations flagged like ‘₹200 cr-pre-scam’ ripple claims affecting decades departmental mis-projections الملفات)Read More:[source text link placeholder].