Property Tax in Andhra Pradesh: What It Is, How It's Calculated, and How to Get Your Receipt
Need your Andhra Pradesh property tax receipt? JaaGa gets it for you
If you own property in an Andhra Pradesh town or city, you pay property tax every half year — and sooner or later someone will ask you to produce the receipt. A bank processing your home loan. A buyer’s lawyer. The municipal office handling your mutation.
JaaGa fetches your Andhra Pradesh property tax details and delivers them as a soft copy within 24 hours, for 149 credits. You give us the property details, we do the lookup, and the document arrives — no assessment-number hunt, no account to create, no queue at the municipal office.
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Skip portal errors and long municipal queues. JaaGa fetches official municipal property tax details and payment receipts across CDMA and GVMC urban local bodies.
Get your AP Property Tax details →First, though, it helps to understand what you are paying and why the receipt matters.
What is property tax?
Property tax is a charge on property, levied by the local body that provides services where the property stands. In Andhra Pradesh’s towns and cities that is the urban local body — a municipal corporation, a municipality or a nagar panchayat — under the Commissioner and Director of Municipal Administration, which is why many people call it CDMA property tax or cdma ap property tax.
This municipal property tax pays for the things around your property: water supply, drainage, street lighting, sanitation and general municipal services. You will see those as separate lines on your bill, because property tax is not one tax but several bundled together.
A few points that clear up most of the confusion:
- It is charged half-yearly in Andhra Pradesh, not once a year.
- It is often called house tax or house property tax, and in everyday use the terms mean the same thing.
- It is not land revenue. Municipal property tax is collected by municipal bodies on urban property. Land revenue applies to rural agricultural land.
- It applies even if the property is empty. Most municipal bodies collect tax regardless of whether anyone is living there, with only specific statutory exemptions.
- Vacant land is taxed too, through a separate vacant land tax (VLT).
- Village property is different. Property inside a gram panchayat is taxed by the panchayat under the Panchayat Raj system, and the municipal rates below do not apply to it.
How property tax is calculated in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh used to tax property on its Annual Rental Value (ARV) — a notional rent worked out from plinth area, locality, age and construction type. The state has since transitioned to the Capital Value System, where the tax is a percentage of what the property is worth rather than what it might rent for.
The important consequence: capital value is based on the market value fixed by the Stamps and Registration Department — the same guideline value that decides your stamp duty when you register a sale. Property tax and stamp duty now move together. When market values are revised, tax follows.
Under the reform, residential property is taxed within a band of 0.10% to 0.50% of capital value and non-residential property between 0.20% and 2.00%, with a cap limiting how far the new tax can exceed the old.
What your city charges
Each municipal council fixes its own rate, and the pattern across the state is striking:
118 of the 123 urban local bodies charge exactly 0.075% of capital value per half year on residential property. Only five charge less — and they are among the largest cities in the state.
| City / Urban Local Body | Residential (half-yearly) | Annual equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| Kakinada | 0.05% | 0.10% |
| Visakhapatnam (GVMC property tax / Vizag) | 0.06% | 0.12% |
| Machilipatnam | 0.06% | 0.12% |
| Vijayawada (Vijayawada property tax) | 0.065% | 0.13% |
| Guntur (Guntur property tax) | 0.065% | 0.13% |
| Everywhere else — including Nellore, Kurnool, Tirupati, Kadapa, Tenali and Anantapur | 0.075% | 0.15% |
Non-residential property is charged at 0.15% per half year in 122 of the 123 bodies. Kakinada is the single exception at 0.18% — the city with the lowest residential rate has the highest commercial one.
On top of that, every urban local body levies a library cess of 8%, and vacant land tax runs at 0.2% a year in most municipalities, rising to 0.5% in 17 of them, mostly the municipal corporations.
A worked example
Take a residential property with a capital value of ₹40 lakh:
| Where it is | Rate | Half-yearly tax | Annual tax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visakhapatnam (GVMC) | 0.06% | ₹2,400 | ₹4,800 |
| Vijayawada or Guntur | 0.065% | ₹2,600 | ₹5,200 |
| A Grade-III municipality | 0.075% | ₹3,000 | ₹6,000 |
The same property costs ₹1,200 a year more in a small municipality than in Visakhapatnam. The library cess is charged on top, and water or sewerage charges may be billed separately.
What a property tax receipt shows
Your receipt carries the payment confirmation, the assessment details, the amount paid, the period it covers, any arrears, and the municipal jurisdiction. It may also carry assessment details such as plinth area or plot size.
What it proves — and what it does not
- It supports an ownership claim but cannot replace a Sale Deed, Patta or Mutation record. Paying tax does not make you the owner.
- Tax can be paid even on disputed land. Payment does not validate ownership or settle a title dispute.
- If no arrears are listed, there are no dues outstanding. If dues exist, they show as pending balances.
- Boundaries are not on it. For boundaries, you need an FMB sketch or tippon cadastral map.
When you will need the receipt
Buying a property
Ask for several years of receipts. Check that the name and assessment number match the property, and that nothing is outstanding — arrears attach to the property, and the buyer inherits them.
Applying for a home loan
Lenders routinely require the latest paid property tax receipt as part of technical and legal loan clearance.
Applying for mutation
Registering your sale deed does not change the municipal record. The name change is a separate mutation application, and until it is approved, every receipt will still carry the seller’s name.
Selling a property
The buyer’s advocate will ask for property tax clearance. Clean receipts ready to hand significantly shorten transaction due diligence.
Old years & past records
Past receipts can usually be retrieved where records are digitized. For older historical records, JaaGa assists with comprehensive document tracking.
Get your property tax receipt from JaaGa
Under non-agriculture document services on JaaGa:
- 149 credits (1 credit = ₹1)
- Soft copy, delivered within 24 hours
- Fetched directly from official municipal and government tax records, without modification
Choose Andhra Pradesh, select Property Tax Details, provide the property specifics, and the verified receipt comes straight to your dashboard.
We fetch property tax in other states too:
| State | Service | Price | Delivery SLA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telangana | Property Tax | 49 credits | Instant |
| Andhra Pradesh | Property Tax Details | 149 credits | Within 24 hours |
| Tamil Nadu | Property Tax | See service page | — |
| Karnataka | BBMP Tax Receipt & Panchayat Tax Receipt | See service page | — |
While you are at it
If you are pulling a tax receipt because you are buying, it is worth getting the rest of the file at the same time. For Andhra Pradesh, JaaGa also fetches:
| Non-agriculture | Agriculture |
|---|---|
| Encumbrance Certificate (EC) | Encumbrance Certificate (EC) |
| Sale Deed / Mother Deed / Link Documents | Sale Deed / Mother Deed / Link Documents |
| Mutation (Khata) Certificate | Pattadhar Passbook |
| Market Value | Adangal |
| Prohibited Lands (22A) | ROR-1B |
| RERA Certificate | Prohibited Lands |
| Know Your SRO | Land Market Value |
| Electricity Bill Details | FMB (Field Measurement Book) |
| Property Audit Report | Property Audit Report |
Related reading: title verification and legal opinion · encumbrance certificate guide · AP freehold land registration.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
- Property tax rates for all 123 urban local bodies: Tax Rates & Tariffs published by the Commissioner and Director of Municipal Administration (CDMA), Government of Andhra Pradesh, read 1 October 2026. Rates fixed under the AP Municipalities Act, 1965 and AP Municipal Corporations Act, 1955.
- Capital Value System: Municipal law amendments shifting Andhra Pradesh from Annual Rental Value (ARV) to Capital Value (CV).
- Service details: JaaGa Andhra Pradesh Property Tax Details service desk.
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