The decision to impose an additional six per cent in way of property tax, including on water charges, saw support coming in for the very first time from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) towards the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) General Body (GB) meeting yesterday.

On the other hand, the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena opposed the property tax-hike. The tax hike was approved in the house after getting 66 votes against 49 in the house. u00a0Property tax also includes general tax, fire tax, tree cess, cleanliness tax, water benefit tax, sewage tax, road tax and education sub-tax. The civic administration had suggested a minimal hike in these taxes coming under property tax. Interestingly, Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled Services will be taxed like domestic charges, as per the Standing Committee resolution (1027) on March 31, 2003, in keeping with directives given by the state government. The PMC GB also approved six per cent tax on entertainment, against eight per cent as suggested by the civic administration.u00a0