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Tk 230,74,94,297 holding tax due in DSCC, DNCC

SANGSAD BHABAN, Jan 29, 2018 (BSS) – Dhaka South City
Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)
have a total of Taka 230,74,94,297 over due holding tax from
individual house owners.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister
Khandker Mosharraf Hossain told this in the Jatiya Sangsad
today.

“There is no house without holding number under the DSCC and
the DNCC,” he said, while responding to a starred question
from treasury bench member AKM Rahmatullah of Dhaka-11.

The minister informed the House that there is no scope for
imposing holding tax on under construction houses and
realizing tax from them, adding, “The city corporations
usually initiates imposition of holding tax and realize it
after construction of the apartment/flat.”

He said the Dhaka South City Corporation has an over due
holding tax of Taka 73 crore 74 lakh, 94 thousand 2 hundred
and 97 from individual house owners having number.

Hossain, however, said the Dhaka North City Corporation has
over due holding tax of Taka 157 crore from individual house
owners having number.

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