BENGALURU: The tax collection landscape in Bengaluru reveals a stark contrast between the South and North regions. With only a few weeks remaining in the financial year, the city’s five corporations have collectively gathered just 57.96% of their property tax target for the fiscal year 2025-26, highlighting a significant gap between expectations and actual revenue.
The South corporation has proven to be the strongest performer thus far. It has collected ₹745.33 crore against a goal of ₹1,228.85 crore, achieving 60.65%—the highest rate among all five corporations. They’ve steadily maintained this momentum leading up to the year’s end.
Conversely, the North corporation has shown the least performance, garnering only ₹651.92 crore against its target of ₹1,242.33 crore, resulting in a mere 52.48%. This puts North just above the halfway mark, indicating a considerable amount of progress needed as the deadline looms.
Trailing closely behind South is the East corporation, which, despite ranking second in percentage, has the highest absolute collection among the five. With ₹1,010.42 crore collected against a target of ₹1,673.46 crore, it achieved 60.38% and is the first to breach the ₹1,000 crore threshold in revenue.
The West corporation is positioned third, having collected ₹761.35 crore against a target of ₹1,281.59 crore (59.41%). Although it’s slightly below the 60% threshold, West remains close to the top two performers and shows fairly consistent collection trends. The Central corporation comes in fourth, collecting ₹724.77 crore versus a target of ₹1,273.78 crore, yielding 56.90%. While its total collections are similar to those of West and South, the lower percentage indicates slower progress against its target.
A Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) official noted that the five corporations collectively raised ₹3,893.79 crore against a combined target of ₹6,700 crore, reflecting a marked decline compared to the previous financial year. By mid-February 2024-25, the unified BBMP had already achieved ₹4,547 crore in the same area—nearly ₹1,500 crore more than this year’s collection so far. While over ₹2,000 crore was collected in the first two months of 2025-26, growth appears to have stalled following the transition to the Greater Bengaluru Authority and the formation of five distinct corporations. March presents the last opportunity for revenue enhancement, and officials have indicated that special drives are planned, despite the slim chance of hitting the full target. They express concern that revenue shortfalls may adversely affect civic projects and budget planning in the years to come.
