Haryana Property Tax Relief: Pay Under Old System Till December 31 2026
The Haryana government has given property owners and occupiers in municipal areas more time to pay property tax under the old taxation system, extending the option until the end of December 2026. The relief comes through two gazette notifications issued by the Urban Local Bodies Department on 2 November 2026, which amend the property tax provisions notified on 30 July 2026 under the Haryana Municipal Act 1973 and the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act 1994.
Under the amended provisions, the revised property tax system and rates will take effect from 1 August 2026, but owners and occupiers in municipal areas may continue to pay under the old system until 31 December 2026. The extension matters most to households and businesses that have not yet cleared their dues, because it gives them a final window to settle tax at the older rates before the new system becomes the only route for payment.
This is the latest in a series of extensions to the transition. When the new system was first notified, property owners were given the option to pay under the old notification of 2013 for a limited period from 1 August 2026. That window was then extended step by step through the autumn, with deadlines moving from October to November, and the latest gazette notifications now carry the old-system option through to the end of December. The repeated extensions show the government trying to give taxpayers time to adjust to a fundamentally different way of calculating property tax.
The new system replaces the old area-based assessment with a capital-value system anchored to official circle rates. Under it, a property’s capital value is worked out from its plot or carpet area multiplied by the collector rate, with floor factors applied, and the tax is then calculated using base rates and usage-based multipliers. Separate assessment provisions apply to residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and other categories of property, so that tax reflects a property’s size and its actual use. Officials have said the change aims to make assessment more transparent, rational and equitable across municipal areas.
The transition also carries protections for taxpayers. Property owners who have already paid their property tax for the current financial year will not be affected by the new notification for 2026-27, and arrears and interest relating to the period up to financial year 2025-26 remain unchanged. From financial year 2026-27 onwards, all properties will be assessed under the new notification. To guard against sudden jumps in bills, annual increases are capped: for residential houses up to 250 square metres and flats up to 100 square metres of carpet area, the annual tax cannot exceed 1.25 times the tax payable under the old system, while for houses between 250 and 350 square metres the cap is 1.5 times the old tax.
Property owners can check their estimated liability and pay their dues through the municipal Property Tax Dues Payment and No-Dues Certificate management portal, and through their local municipal corporation or municipality. With the old-system window now running to 31 December 2026, owners with outstanding dues should use the remaining weeks to clear them under the old rates, keep the payment receipt safe, and confirm on the portal that the payment has been recorded before the new system takes over fully.
