Chennai property tax check by bill number

From the bill number on the receipt. Greater Chennai Corporation keeps its property tax register keyed by zone, ward and bill serial, written with dashes like 07-090-00234-000. Enter it here and the page reads the corporation register live: the owner it bills, the property address, the annual value the tax is worked out from, the current half-year demand and any arrears carried forward.

Printed at the top as "Bill No", in three or four parts. The first is the zone (1 to 15), the second the ward, the third the bill serial, and older bills carry a fourth part, the sub number, usually 000. The corporation does not search by owner name, door number or survey number, so the receipt or the demand notice is the starting point.

Chennai renumbered bills when the city expanded in 2011 and again when wards were redrawn, so an older receipt often quotes a number the corporation has since replaced. The old number still finds the property, and this page shows both: the number you typed and the number the register answers under today. Use the current one when you pay or apply for a name transfer.

The corporation's own estimate of what the property would fetch as yearly rent, worked out from the plinth area, the basic street rate and the age and type of the building. The half-yearly tax is a percentage of it. It is not a market value and should never be read as one: a property with an annual value of a few thousand rupees can be worth crores.

Arrears run with the property, not with the seller. The corporation will refuse to transfer the assessment into your name while anything is outstanding, and it can attach and auction the property for long-standing dues under the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act. Ask for paid receipts, check the register yourself, and have any balance settled before registration.

No. The corporation bills whoever is on its rolls and does not verify title. A receipt in the seller's name is evidence of possession and that the property is assessed, nothing more. Ownership is proved by the registered deed, the patta or town survey record, and the encumbrance certificate.

No, and nothing public can. The corporation's citizen record carries no property type, so a bare plot and a building look the same in the answer. Chennai levies vacant land tax through the same property tax bill rather than as a separate line. Outside Chennai the state register does name vacant land tax on its own row, which is what the vacant land tax page reads.

Every other corporation, municipality and town panchayat in Tamil Nadu bills on one state register with assessment numbers written as three parts with slashes, like 162/028/910061. Enter one of those here and the page sends you to the municipal property tax page, which reads that register instead.