Now the citizens of Mangaluru can pay over 20 types of taxes to Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) at the digital tax collection centre of ICICI Bank. The bank opened the digital tax collection centre at its Valencia extension counter in Mangaluru on Wednesday.

A press release said here that ICICI Bank is the first bank in Karnataka to offer digital mode of tax payment through debit and credit card, along with traditional payment modes such as cash, cheque and demand draft.

The tax collection solution has been customised by the bank, wherein the bank has integrated hand-held point-of-sale (PoS) terminal with the MCC server to instantly fetch, accept and update payment data in real time. This offers tax payers the convenience of a one-stop solution to generate e-challans and pay taxes directly to the MCC instantly, it said.

Quoting Viral Rupani, Retail Business Head (South) of ICICI Bank, it said that this service will enable one million tax-paying entities in Mangaluru to conveniently pay more than 20 types of municipal taxes using credit and debit card.

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