“But no school has contacted us following our circular,” said Shivahari Sharma, tax officer of the sub-metropolitan city. The sub-metropolitan city has also requested PABSON-Kaski to help collect taxes from private schools. [break]
Two weeks ago, the sub-metropolitan city had written to private schools that are deemed major tax-payers.
Seventy five schools approached by the sub-metropolitan city for taxes are associated with PABSON and the rest with N-PABSON. Sharma warned that private schools would be blacklisted and face other sanctions if they did not pay taxes.
The sub-metropolitan city has now been strict about taxes this year as last year it collected taxes 20 percent below the target. As per its instructions, the private schools will have to pay taxes on six headings -- housing, land revenue, profession, vehicle, advertisement and sanitation.
The 14th council meeting of the sub-metropolitan city had made it mandatory from this fiscal year for private schools to pay all taxes.
Private schools have been depriving the sub-metropolitan city of around Rs 10 million every year, said Sharma. “Only a handful of schools have been paying taxes,” he added.
Sharma said that the sub-metropolitan city has stopped issuing recommendations to schools that failed to pay taxes.
Madhav Sharan Upadhyaya, president of PABSON Kaski, said that the schools are ready to pay just taxes but not taxes imposed arbitrarily.
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