Thiruvananthapuram: Going by the State Government Stand, a fully error in City Corporation, which has grappled with problems regarding inaccuracies in the property tax database.
LSG Minister M V Govindan, in the answer in the ongoing assembly session, said that the software failed to reflect information about taxes, which had been paid, because the staff concerned did not immediately post payments.
With this, the Minister of LSG truly blames Civic bodies and by overriding a lot of formal communication from City Corporation which explains the deviations of the striking IKM software.
Govindan said that there was a redressal complaint system for IKM software, and if at all complaints arise, they were resolved without delay.
The software immediately records and reflects all tax payments made online or through the front office and this information is available on the login set for every civil body.
Only collections received by local bodies manually through a collection of outdoor or camp do not reflect the software because the staff concerned may fail to post data, he added.
The way in which Govindan distances itself from the problems of the grave about the IKM software repeatedly presented in front of him and the former Minister of LSG is a clear indication that the problem of the tax database may be far from the civic body.
In October, it was almost not two weeks before the minister gave this reply in the Assembly, City Corporation’s revenue wing has marked a striking shortcomings in the IKM software in the latest letter sent to the IKM head.
This is not the first: Corporations have highlighted problems and disruptions in IKM software, and references for similar communication in the past have also been mentioned in the letter.
While companies need to update a record of around 4.5 lakh tax assessment, Wing revenues have reported that buildings originating from 2016-17 can be assessed using software, and do not have facilities to register buildings before it with a retrospective effect.
Although CESS services are being counted at City Corporation along with property tax for the past three years, the software does not have facilities to add Cess services in buildings that are assessed before the CESS will take effect.
While combining the database before 2016, officials tried to post taxes for a full year; However, the system will still reflect half a year, showing a letter sent to IKM.
The letter also includes other technical disorders such as delays, often instances the obstacle system that delays the process of data updates.
Furthermore, there is no way to assess taxes before 2016 calculated based on the annual lease value.
With regard to tax relaxation for former men’s services, software has no provisions to update it every year after supervision of the document.
This software has no features to include decisions made by the Tax Appeal Committee from the Civic body in question.
The long list of such problems has been presented to the local self-self department since 2018, but there is no concrete solution that has arrived, so far.