The State government is actively considering deployment of drones to leverage the advantages they offer in cadastral activities and enhance efficiency in property tax collection.
The Socio Economic Outlook 2022 said drones can improve property tax collection in urban areas circumventing commonly faced issues in the domain. While property taxes are a promising source of revenue for local governments, they are associated with large administrative burdens. Collecting property tax entails maintaining and updating spatially complete databases of property records. “Failure to deal with these challenges reduces the potential revenue from property taxes,” the report said.
Drones could however significantly reduce the hurdles to maintaining and updating the maps in urban areas. They would provide low cost solution to surveying techniques and could supplement date on land use with detailed information on the size, capacity and use cases of different buildings in the city. “Consequently, local governments can leverage this data to improve their property tax collections considerably,” the SEO said adding pilots to assess the costs and benefits of using drones in property tax collection had been launched in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
