A large number of property owners are knocking on the doors of the High Court of Karnataka every day challenging the notices issued by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which has demanded payment of additional property tax with penalty and interest by claiming that several owners have underpaid property tax by not declaring details of their properties in the Self Assessment Scheme (SAS) of payment of annual property tax since 2016-17.
In majority of the petitions, the Court has already restrained the BBMP from taking any coercive or precipitative steps against the petitioner-owners of the properties till next date of hearing or further orders by imposing certain conditions on the petitioners. In some cases the court has also directed the BBMP to de-seal the properties with conditions on petitioner-property owners.
