The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has managed to collect only 10 per cent of the targeted property tax for the year 2020-21 in view of the pandemic, but now it plans to auction the helicopters of Mesco Aerospace it seized in February last year to recover Rs 1.95 crore in tax. 

The civic body had seized the choppers after the company failed to pay its taxes after repeated notices. “The company’s dues were R1.65 crore till March 2019. The BMC cut the water supply to their office premises in 2019 and sent them a notice. The dues then touched almost R1.95 crore (till March 2020), so we seized the helicopters,” said a civic official. The civic body had given Mesco 21 days time to pay the dues.