Property tax is billed by the BMC

Property tax in Mumbai is assessed and collected by the BMC's Assessment and Collection department. The BMC property tax portal lets a society or owner pay online, download a no-dues or payment certificate, apply for a change of owner, and apply to split a building's assessment into flat-wise accounts. Under Maharashtra Act 25 of 2022, residential units of 500 sq ft carpet area or less in Mumbai are exempt from all components of property tax from 1 January 2022, which changes how much property tax a society needs to recover from those flats in its maintenance bill.

Source: BMC property tax portal · BMC Assessment & Collection RTI manual, ch. 6 (500 sq ft exemption)

Redevelopment runs under DCPR 2034, not the UDCPR

Greater Mumbai is excluded from the state's unified regulations and has its own Development Control and Promotion Regulations 2034. Which regulation applies depends on the building: 33(5) for MHADA housing schemes, 33(7) for cessed buildings in the Island City, 33(7)(A) for dilapidated tenanted buildings, 33(7)(B) for additional FSI on redevelopment of existing housing societies, 33(9) for cluster development and 33(10) for slum rehabilitation. Old cessed buildings (category A, built before September 1940; B, 1940 to 1950; C, from 1951) are repaired and reconstructed through MHADA's Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board. The society's own process (requisition, special general meeting, tenders) still follows the Co-operation Department's section 79A directive.

Source: DCPR 2034 (BMC, sanctioned text) · MHADA — Mumbai Building Repairs & Reconstruction Board · Section 79A redevelopment directive, 4 July 2019 (GR)

MHADA and SRA societies, and the Mumbai registrars

Societies in MHADA layouts deal with the MHADA board as well as the registrar: conveyance to the society is under regulation 21 of MHADA's 1982 estate management regulations, and a transfer of a MHADA tenement is applied for to the board's Estate Manager with a no-objection letter from the society. Slum rehabilitation buildings come under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Brihanmumbai. For registration, the state's Right to Services list names ward Deputy and Assistant Registrars and the registrar offices attached to SRA, MHADA and MMRDA as the officers who register societies, within 60 days. Across the city, supervision sits with four District Deputy Registrars (Mumbai City 1 to 4) under the Divisional Joint Registrar, Mumbai; the Co-operation Commissioner's official list names them.

Source: MHADA helpdesk (conveyance, Registrar (MHADA)) · MHADA — documents for transfer of tenancy · Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Brihanmumbai · Aaple Sarkar — Right to Services list (service 404) · Co-operation Commissioner — District Deputy Registrars

Form B goes to the Mumbai Fire Brigade in January and July

Section 3(3) of the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act 2006 requires the owner or occupier, which for a society building means the society, to give the Chief Fire Officer a certificate from a licensed agency twice a year, in January and July, that the fire systems are maintained. The Maharashtra Fire Service has clarified that the July Form B covers January to June and the January Form B covers July to December of the previous year, and since 2022 agencies must sign Form B digitally. The BMC's portal has a Fire Act Form B online submission page with the format and the list of licensed agencies.

Source: Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act 2006 · Maharashtra Fire Service circular on Form B periods (16 Oct 2015) · Maharashtra Fire Service circular on digital signature (15 Feb 2022) · BMC — Fire Act Form B online submission

What SocietyAxis does for a Mumbai society

SocietyAxis keeps the society's record the way the MCS Act and the bye-laws expect: maintenance bills and receipts in English and Marathi, statutory registers that are never overwritten, a compliance calendar for dates such as the January and July Form B, the audit, the returns and the AGM, and a gate app for visitors and staff. Its 2027 pilot will run with a small number of societies in Mumbai MMR and Pune.

Source: SocietyAxis 2027 pilot

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Property tax is billed by the BMC

Redevelopment runs under DCPR 2034, not the UDCPR

MHADA and SRA societies, and the Mumbai registrars

Form B goes to the Mumbai Fire Brigade in January and July

What SocietyAxis does for a Mumbai society

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