Mumbai
While there is the possibility that octroi tax regime may be scratched in the coming year, another danger lurks over this chief revenue source for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Updated : Apr 01, 2015, 07:00 AM IST
While there is the possibility that octroi tax regime may be scratched in the coming year, another danger lurks over this chief revenue source for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
A bogus website of the octroi department has left the civic authority perplexed, especially since this is the third one coming up. Sensing that this could lead to cheating cases and financial misuse, the administration has lodged a complaint with the cyber crime police department in this regard.According to the officials, importers used to visit www.mcgmoctrio.com after payment of octroi to the corporation to ascertain authenticity of receipts. But the corporation recently learnt that a similar-looking bogus website www.mcgmoctroi.in is also functional. The corporation informed all the importers about the spurious portal in a press conference on Tuesday."
We are probing whether any transactions have taken place through this bogus website. Earlier, we had come across two other bogus websites. The BMC had then also lodged a complaint with the Kanjur Marg police about four bogus transactions. These bogus websites are presently non-functional, but importers should be cautious of the new fake sites," said Sanjay Mukherjee, additional municipal commissioner.