District administration has prepared a list of top 217 tax evaders here and in case of default in payment of arrears of their municipal taxes, it is planning to initiate stern action against them.
After assuming the additional charge of Municipal Commissioner of Nagar Nigam Ghaziabad, District Magistrate Vimal Kumar Sharma today told reporters that a list of big defaulters is being readied and in case of their default to make payments, Recovery Certificates (RCs) will be issued to them.
In case of non-payment, recovery proceedings will be initiated against them and tax arrears will be recovered as arrears of land revenue, he said.
"There is a long list of politically influential persons, business tycoons and industrial houses who have evaded payment of house tax, water tax, sewer tax and property tax since long time," he said.
"None of them will be spared irrespective of their political affiliations," Sharma added.
Additional Municipal Commissioner D K Sinha said that a list of top 217 tax evaders has been prepared upon whom tax arrears amount is more than one lakh.
Another separate list has been made of newly-developed free-hold colonies, in which house tax has not yet been levied.
A report will be sent to the Municipal Commissioner in this regard, Sinha added.
