How To Pay Property Tax In Karnataka?

Do you want to know how to pay property taxes in Karnataka? Read on to know – how to pay property taxes is various parts of the state.

Why Property Tax

Property tax is one of the important source of revenue for both the Urban Local Bodies and the Village Local Bodies to take up the developmental works.  

If the property tax is not paid, the concerned Urban Local Body (ULB) is authorisedto initiate action against the defaulters. It includes seizure and auction of the property.

The properties in the ULBs across the state are divided into various categories. They can be broadly categorized into residential, commercial properties and vacant sites. These categories are subdivided further.  The property tax is fixed based on self-assessment and declaration.

Generally, in all the ULBs across the state, start the property tax collection from April 1st. They give 5% concession for those who pay the property tax in the first month.

How To Pay Property Tax In Karnataka?

All the city corporations of the state of Karnataka have a population above 6 lakhs. Thousands of residents of these towns are residing in out of cities, districts, states or countries. Even though they are residing out of the respective cities, they need to pay the property tax.

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has introduced an online property tax payment system. However, online payment facility is not available in other parts of the state.

Instead in most of the cities, the property tax can be paid through Karnataka Oneor Bengaluru One centers which are across the state. The only city which has introduced the online property tax payment system other than BBMP is Belagavi City Municipal Corporation.

Easy Way To Determine Your Property Tax

Here are the easy step of making the property tax payment. Before making the property tax payment one needs to find out what is the tax amount. It can be found online.

For this, the urban development department introduced an online property tax calculation tool which is made available on the website of the state urban development department. You can find the link here –http://www.uddkar.gov.in/en/ptaxcalc

According to the Urban Development department, four different URLs are developed to calculate the property tax

For City CorporationsURL :  http://www.<cityname>city.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator. Example: http://www.mysorecity.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator

For the City Municipal Councils(CMC’s)URL :  http://www.<cityname>city.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator. Example: http://www.mandyacity.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator

For Town Municipal Councils(TMC’s) URL :  http://www.<cityname>town.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator. Example: 
http://www.kadurtown.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator

For Town Panchayaths(TP’s) URL :  http://www.<cityname>town.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator. Example: 
http://www.holalkeretown.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator

How To Pay Property Tax In Karnataka- Belagavi City Corporation

Belagavi is one of the major towns of the North Karnataka region. This city border with Maharastra. This city is known for the educational institutions like headquarter of the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), GIT, KLE University etc.

The Belagavi city corporation has made elaborate arrangements and installed IT infrastructure to allow the citizens to make online payment of the property tax.

How To Pay Property Tax Online In Belagavi?

The residents need to open the below link to make the property tax payment online-
http://belgavi.oasisweb.in/eoasis1/WebSiteBGM/PropertySearch1.aspx

How To Pay Property Tax Online In Belagavi?

The residents need to open the below link to make online property tax payment –http://belgavi.oasisweb.in/eoasis1/WebSiteBGM/PropertySearch1.aspx

Once this link is opened, it seeks Property Identification number (PID). If the property owner doesn’t have a PID number he can calculate the property tax amount by filling other details online. The corporation website allows the users to make the property tax payments online.  

How To Pay Property Tax In Karnataka – Mysuru City Corporation

In Mysuru City Corporation, there is no provision to make property tax payment online. But the property owners can determine their tax liability through online.

The owners can get the details of their property by clicking on http://www.mysorecity.mrc.gov.in/ptisnn/public/BeforeSearchProperty.do

The property tax details can be decided by visiting – http://www.athanitown.mrc.gov.in/ptaxcalculator/PtaxCalculator.htm

But for the payment, one needs to visit the Karnataka One center or the City Corporation Offices spread across the city.

How To Pay Property Tax In Karnataka – Mangaluru City Corporation

A huge number of residents of the Mangaluru city migrated to other places. They have made a huge investment on the properties across the city. But there is no online payment mechanism to pay the Property tax.

Online payment facility is available only for the property search and decides the property tax amount. It can be done by visiting – http://www.mangalorecity.mrc.gov.in/ptisnn/public/BeforeSearchProperty.do

How To Pay Property Tax In Karnataka – Hubballi-Dharwad City Corporation

There is no facility to pay the property tax online in Hubballi-Dharwad. But the public can decide their property tax liability by clicking on –http://www.hubli-dharwadcity.mrc.gov.in/ptisnn/public/BeforeSearchProp

Similarly in all the major towns and corporations of the state, there is no provision to pay the property tax online. One of the main problems is that none of the city corporations are able to issue PID the way BBMP does.