kolkata the kolkata municipal corporation has decided to amend laws relating to unit area assessment uaa to attract citys property tax payers to switch over to the new systemmayor sovan chatterjee on thursday held a meeting with the senior assessment department officials to do away with some unnecessary rules for instance a section of citys shopping mall owners had approached the civic brass to exclude the common area of their malls from the property tax calculation some mall owners have approached us to exempt the common areas from uaa calculation we discussed the issue today and may consider the plea for that we need to amend the present uaa laws we are in the process of sending the uaa guidelines to the state for a change the amendment will be placed before the assembly said a kmc assessment department official the kmc has tied up with real estate developers forum credai for implementation of uaaamong other changes that the civic fathers are planning include making the upper and lower limits of change in tax fixed we have decided not to accept a hike more than 20 of the present property tax amount for a household or a commercial property similarly we wont allow a fall in tax by more than 20 this capping has been done deliberately to give relief to the property owners we have no plans to alter this after a time span but this has to be given a legal stamp by amending the present uaa laws mayor sovan chatterjee saidchatterjee said the civic body would invite tax defaulters to clear their dues and get eligible for the uaa everyone has to switch over to the new uaa system for the defaulters who owe the civic body more than rs 2 lakh we will offer a special 50 interest waiver on the accumulated tax after clearing the tax they will be eligible for the uaa he added chatterjee said the civic body was gearing up to provide tax payers the necessary support to switchover to the uaa from april 15 we will deploy professionals who will help property owners fill up the selfassessment forms our inspectors will visit flats residential buildings and commercial properties and handover the saf forms inviting them to switchover within a specified time chatterjee said