Delhi Mayor Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh on Thursday urged all eligible property tax payers within jurisdiction of the MCD to make the most of the opportunity to avail benefit under Property Tax Amnesty Scheme 2025-26 SUMPATTIKAR NIPTAAN YOJANA (SUNIYO).
Under SUNIYO, taxpayers can avail of a complete waiver of property tax along with interest and penalties, prior to the financial year 2020-21, provided they pay the principal amount of property tax, without any interest and penalty, for the current year (2025-26) and the previous five financial years (i.e., FYs 2020-21 to 2024-25).
The scheme has been further extended up to 31st January, 2026 with 5 per cent late fee.
The Mayor, in a statement, said, “We appeal to all property owners/occupiers to make full use of this golden opportunity under SUNIYO scheme and settle their outstanding property tax dues without incurring any further penalties or interest.”
He highlighted that citizens are actively participating in the Tax Amnesty Scheme availing of the benefit of SUNIYO scheme.
To date, 1,66,587 taxpayers have already benefited from this initiative and paid the property tax to the tune of Rs 803.61 crore up to 31st December 2025. Of this, Rs 188.28 crore of property tax is collected from a total of 1,20,157 residential properties, while Rs 615.32 crore of property tax is collected from 46,430 non-residential properties.
It is also to be highlighted that 90,139 new taxpayers have availed the benefits of SUNIYO Scheme and paid property tax for the first time and tax collection from these first timer taxpayers under SUNIYO is Rs 312.45 crore.
The Mayor further highlighted that the total tax collection as on 31st December, 2025 for the current year (including SUNIYO Scheme) is Rs 2,642.80 crore from 12,42,875 taxpayers vis-a-vis tax collection of Rs 1,859.77 crore from 10,31,177 taxpayers over the corresponding period.
It indicates that there is an increase of 42.1 per cent in tax collection and 20.52 per cent increase in the number of taxpayers over the corresponding period.
It is worthwhile to mention here that total tax collection for the FY 2024-25 was Rs.2132.29 crore from 11,33,161 taxpayers which is significantly less than the tax collection for the current financial year as on date.