India, March 7 -- New Delhi

After the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) attached more than a dozen shops, showrooms and restaurants in Connaught Place this week due to non-payment of property taxes, the New Delhi Traders Association, in a meeting on Thursday, underlined their demand seeking a uniform unit-area method of taxation in Lutyen's Delhi, instead of the comparative rent system.

Atul Bhargava, NDTA head, said traders are not against the recovery of tax dues, but want a "just and fair" system of taxation. "One city, one tax is our basic demand. We will approach our new MLA Parvesh Verma and flag this issue. MCD implemented the unit-area method in 2004 but NDMC is still using the obsolete method," he said.

Bhargava said the asso...