PRAYAGRAJ, April 3 -- The Prayagraj Municipal Corporation (PMC) has prepared a list of house owners and government departments that have not paid taxes for several years as part of efforts to recover its long-overdue house tax. It has also decided to charge 12% interest on unpaid dues from the new financial year under Section 221 of the Nagar Nigam Act.

According to PMC chief tax officer (CTO) PK Dwivedi, last year, PMC had nearly 33,000 residential and commercial buildings with pending tax payments. However, before the end of the previous financial year (2024-25), nearly 13,000 of these pending bills were cleared by building owners.

"We have defaulters in different categories, i.e., unpaid bills within Rs.5,000, between Rs.5,000 and Rs...