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New Delhi: The North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday unveiled a new interface on its portal for citizens to file their property taxes. HT Image This new section (https://mcdonline.nic.in/citizenndmc/web/citizen/info) is user-friendly and is aimed at getting more residents to file their taxes online at a time when people can’t step out due to the lockdown, officials said. Property tax is the largest source of revenue for the corporations followed by toll tax, parking, advertisement and renting out community halls. In the last financial year (2019-20), the north corporation earned Rs. 1,118 crore in property tax, which was almost 45% of its total income of Rs. 2,485 crore. Officials said 4.68 lakh houses have already been enrolled in the UPIC (Unique Property Identification Card) system and brought under the tax net. “We have estimated our lost property tax this year, attributable to Covid, to about Rs. 180 crore. In fact, the largest amount of property tax comes to us at the end of the year as a lot of people wait for March, but this time the lockdown coincided with that,” said north corporation commissioner, Varsha Joshi. Naina Soin Kapil, additional commissioner (revenue) with the corporation, their earlier portal was handled by a private company, whose contract with us ended in December 2019. “Now, our website is designed and operated by a government agency, National Informatics Centre (NIC). The entire data is now cloud-based and hosted at NIC’s Bhubaneswar dat...