Municipal property tax check by assessment number

Yes. Every urban local body in Tamil Nadu outside Chennai keeps its property tax demands in one state register, keyed by the assessment number on the receipt. Enter that number here and the page reads the register live: the assessee, the ward, the address and area on the assessment, the survey number it was raised on, and every half-yearly demand with what was collected and what is still outstanding.

On the property tax receipt or demand notice, printed as three numbers separated by slashes, like 162/028/910061. The first part is the local body, the second the ward, the third the serial. The register does not search by name, door number or survey number, so the receipt is the starting point. If the seller cannot produce one, that itself is worth knowing.

One row per half-year and tax type. Demand is what the local body raised for that period, collected is what it received, balance is what is still owed. Property tax is the building levy; a row marked SUC is the solid waste user charge billed on the same assessment; a row marked VLT is vacant land tax, which means the local body treats the holding as a bare plot.

Arrears stay with the property, not the seller, and the local body will refuse a name transfer on the assessment until they are cleared. Ask for the paid receipts for every period shown, or have the amount settled and re-checked before registration. A large balance across many periods on a plot described as vacant also says the local body may have reassessed it as built up.

No. A tax assessment names whoever the local body bills, and the local body does not check title. A receipt in the seller's name is good evidence of possession and of a property that is on the municipal rolls, nothing more. Ownership is proved by the registered deed, the patta and the encumbrance certificate.

The local body records the survey number it was given when the assessment was opened, often a parent number with "part", and it is not corrected when the plot is sub-divided. A different survey stem, though, means the receipt may belong to another plot altogether. The page compares the register's survey with the one you type and says so.

Greater Chennai Corporation keeps its own register keyed by zone, ward and bill number. A Chennai bill number entered here is sent to the Chennai property tax page, which reads that register instead.

Yes. There is no login and no charge. Each read goes to the municipal register live, so a lookup can take up to half a minute, and a number read once is remembered for a day.