The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has extended the deadline for payment of property tax for the first half of the financial year 2025–26 by three months. The move was prompted by concerns expressed by citizens regarding the limited time initially allowed for making payments. It was reported by residents that revised property tax bills were received only around 15 days before the original due date, leaving insufficient time for settlement of dues.
According to civic officials, the delay in bill delivery was attributed to technical glitches that affected the printing process. Additional delays were caused by an ongoing system upgrade in the Indian Postal Department, which slowed down the distribution of the bills. The standard three-month payment window, which was scheduled to end on August 13, has now been extended on a ward-wise basis to accommodate these delays.
For wards ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘F South’, ‘F North’, ‘G South’, ‘G North’, ‘H East’, ‘H West’, ‘K West’, ‘P South’, ‘P North’, ‘R South’, ‘R Central’, ‘M East’, and ‘M West’, the revised deadline has been set for November 1. For wards ‘K East’, ‘R North’, ‘L’, ‘N’, ‘S’, and ‘T’, the payment deadline has been pushed further to December 1. Civic officials have stated that this extension is expected to provide taxpayers with sufficient time to complete their payments without penalty.
Meanwhile, a report published in July revealed details received through a Right to Information (RTI) query filed by Godfrey Pimenta, founder of the Watchdog Foundation, regarding recoveries of outstanding property tax from government bodies. The RTI reply, dated June 17, 2025, indicated that BMC has recovered Rs 243 crore over the past five years from agencies including the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), the state government, the central government, market bodies, and the Railways. The recoveries included Rs 77.25 crore from MHADA, Rs 12.51 crore from BEST, Rs 73.68 crore from the state government, Rs 36.55 crore from the central government, Rs 42.81 crore from market bodies, and Rs 50 lakh from the Railways. However, this amount is a small fraction of the Rs 22,000 crore in total arrears owed to the civic body, which also includes dues from private establishments.