In the last month of the financial year, the BMC has begun taking stringent action to recover property taxes worth crores. The BMC's property tax income has remained stagnant at Rs 5,000 crore over the last five years while the tax involved in disputed cases and writ petitions has doubled in this period. Disputed and pending tax stood at Rs 8,363 crore in March 2015 and has risen to Rs 16,167 crore as of February.

At the end of the global recession of 2008 and boom in the real estate sector, the income through property tax rose from Rs 3,398 crore in 2011-12 to Rs 5,702 crore in 2015-16. After this, it has only seen a decline though with the BMC collecting around Rs 3,200 crore for 2019-20 so far. Despite being its largest source of income, the civic body has not been able to find a solution to recover disputed property tax.