EOI FOR EMPANELMENT OF CONSULTING FIRMS FOR PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SELECTED SMART CITIES IN IMPROVEMENT IN PROPERTY TAX COLLECTIONS IN SELECT SMART CITIES

The Tasks to be performed and key activities under the assignment will include:

Task 1: Increase Coverage to at least 90%

Identify un-assessed and under assessed properties by :

• Sample door to door survey (quantum to be decided by the ULB) and/or
• Cross verification of existing property tax records with data sets from other sources including other municipal departments (eg. Building Permission, Trade Licensing, Factory Licensing etc),, other public utilities (e.g. Electricity, Industries, Town Planning etc.) and other publicly available maps etc; identification of likely missing properties in property tax register
• Identification of un-assessed properties and under assessed properties by cross verification using special technologies to improve property tax without physical measurement of properties;
• Provide support to ULB in updating the property tax register with inclusion of un-assessed properties and by reassessment of under assessed properties.
• Estimation of total demand for property tax based on updated property tax register
• Provide support to the ULB through convergence with Capacity Building programme of “AMRUT” to build capacity of the concerned staff of ULB to enable the ULB to a) prepare road map for accessing data from other sources including municipal departments and other utilities for cross verification on regular basis b) identify un assessed and under assessed properties and include them in assessment records for widening of tax base and c) periodically updating property tax records ;