NAVI MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday restrained the Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) from taking any coercive action against any property tax defaulter till June 10, this year. Separate writ petitions were filed by Kharghar Forum, the Kharghar Cooperative Housing Societies Federation and Kamothe Forum against the PCMC, seeking cancellation of property tax bills from October 2016 to financial year 2021-2022, and effecting it retrospectively.
“We moved the Bombay high court on non-compliances of procedures to be followed before raising the bills as per the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act, and retrospective implementation of property tax. The first property tax bill was served to Kharghar node, in February 2021,” said Cdr SH Kalawat (retired), general secretary, Kharghar Cooperative Housing Societies Federation.