Nagaon DTO ensures strict action against tax defaulters

A CORRESPONDENT

NAGAON: District Transport Officer, Nagaon on Thursday urged all the owners of commercial vehicles of the district to pay their outstanding taxes as well as other dues to the department concerned on or before December 31 next.

While speaking to this correspondent on Thursday afternoon, Sunit Bora, Nagaon DTO said, "Over several hundreds owners of commercial vehicles have not paid their outstanding taxes or other dues to the department till date for which the district transport department will initiate strict action against them who are yet to pay their dues from the first week of the upcoming new year."

Moreover, he said that the officials from the district transport department seized several hundreds of commercial as well as private vehicles of such defaulters or other transgression of rules on road and stored at its office premises for over months or years. However, the owners of these vehicles have not contacted district transport department officials or come forward to release their vehicles by paying their taxes or other penalties as of today, according to DTO Bora, who added that if they do not take any initiative to release their vehicles on or before December 31 by clearing their dues or other penalties, the department concerned will auction their vehicles as soon as possible.

Those who have yet to pay their outstanding taxes or other dues for their commercial or private vehicles will face strict measures from the department as well, with enforcement officials going even to their doorsteps to seize their vehicles, according to Bora.

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