Bangalore Citizen often confuse with Bangalore One and BBMP One. Earlier Bangalore One used to collect property taxes but in current Year property tax is collected only at BBMP One but people gather at Bangalore One centers to pay their property tax confusing BBMP One and Bangalore One as same.
“Bangalore One” center are run by the e-governance department and provides a host of citizen services from accepting payment of phone bills to booking of tickets. While “BBMP One” is re-christen of BBMP help centers mooted by ABIDe (Agenda for Bengaluru Infrastructure and Development) task force for providing BBMPs civic services.
Earlier Bangalore One used to collect property taxes but in current tax period 2009-10 BBMP has opened its own help center to accept the payment. Bangalore One and BBMP One sounds similar and citizen gather at Bangalore One to pay their property tax and turns irritated when they told they have to go BBMP citizen center to pay property tax for 2009-10.
Last Saturday, people gathered at Bangalore One to pay their property tax 2009-10 and turned irate when they told that they had to pay their tax at Palike Help Center. After this incident, Bangalore One centers posted notice stating property tax has to be paid at Palike Help Center.
BBMP officials admitted that it had caused quite a bit of confusion and the name was given only on ABIDe’s insistence. Now BBMP officials are calling BBMP One as Palike Help Centers or Contact Points to avoid confusion. Bangalore citizen can continue enjoying the service of Bangalore One from accepting payment of phone bills to booking of tickets except payment of property tax. BBMP accepts property tax for 2009-10 at BBMP One and also accept online at BBMP official site.
Links to Reference:
Bangalore One- BBMP One Not One
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The inconvenience where one is limited to paying property tax only from the office located in one’s ward was not there in the past.
One hopes they will allow this in the future. I can accept for now due to the new system they are trying to limit chances of firther problems.
May be, some taxpayers were confused.
Be that as it should, the fact remains that, the suggestion made to BBMP as under, in all fairness, could have been favorably considered; but for reasons known only to the authority, it does not seem to have been even looked into.:
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According to an announcement recently published in the print media, for paying the Property tax for the current financial year ending 31st March 2010, even an existing payer is required to file once again a SAS return, and further, make payment only at the appointed collection centre. For obvious reason, this is a mindless requirement. To avoid hassle and inconvenience to the taxpayers, who have already gone through the tiresome procedure for the immediately preceding year, so as to make life easier for them, the procedure needs to be simplified. Payment should be allowed to be made on the basis of the Receipt obtained for the prior year; further, at any of the more convenient Bangalore One Centres, as in the past.
vswaminathan
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