MARGAO
Margao Municipal Council Chief Officer, Agnelo Fernandes on Tuesday has made a fervent appeal to the tax payers of Margao Municipal Council jurisdiction to pay their outstanding dues to the Margao Municipal Council, saying the civic body is running short of revenue which has significantly affected the salary process.
While saying the MMC has been business and citizen-friendly all along, specially due to his and his Council’s efforts to provide prompt service to the citizens, the Chief Officer said it has been brought to light that a large amount of arrears are still outstanding owing to tax payers not coming forward to clear the outstanding house tax due from citizens.
Fernandes has been instrumental in deploying additional recovery teams, but it has been discovered that the amount of arrears is very huge.
The people-centric CO has also appealed to the Chairperson and councillors to assist in the collection of outstanding revenue for the MMC.
He said the friendly relations between MMC and citizens as also the business community must always prevail, adding ‘we need to help each other by cooperating and living and doing business in a comprehensive manner and clearing outstanding tax dues owned by the citizens to the Municipality’.
He added that the Taxation department is working round the clock to assist citizens and business houses to clear outstanding dues round-the-clock in a friendly manner.
“My offices are open to anyone who has any difficulty in clearing dues and our officials assist the citizens towards a robust and quick payment of all dues outstanding,” he added.
He termed this as his fervent personal appeal on behalf of the council for the better functioning of the municipality.
The MMC has been struggling to mop up revenue in the last few days as the civic coffers have virtually run empty, unable to pay the staff salaries in the last few days.
