Digital Data Creation for Property Tax Management

Abstract In India, the municipal corporations are facing issues in property tax collection and major reason for it is lack of count of assessed properties under its jurisdiction. Also the storage of information of the properties are majorly based on manual efforts which lead to data redundancy and failure to appropriate tax collection. The study has been carried out in the Hauz Khas Ward, South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Delhi. The purpose of this paper to develop spatial database for the property tax management which include capture of building footprint, road, land use such as Parks, paved area, Drains etc and demarcation of boundaries such as locality, slums etc on basis of regular grid net with cell size of 250 m by 250 m. Along with this, to create an unique no. to each building polygon called BUID (Building Unique ID) to provide individuality to each polygon. This data will be useful for the collection of information of properties related to property evaluation parameters for tax calculation through ground survey.