law: Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 
  12. Increase in rent on account of payment of
  
  rates, etc. 
  (1) Where a landlord is required to pay to
  
  Government or to any local authority or statutory authority in respect of any
  
  premises any fresh rate, cess, charges, tax, land assessment, ground rent of
  
  land or any other levy on lands and building, or increase in rate, cess,
  
  charges, tax, land assessment, ground rent of land or any other levy on lands
  
  and buildings, he shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other
  
  provisions of this Act but save as otherwise expressly provided in any other
  
  law for the time being in force, be entitled to make an increase in the rent of
  
  such premises:
  Provided  that, the increase in rent shall not
  
  exceed the amount of any such rate, cess, charges, tax, land assessment, ground
  
  rent of land or any other levy on lands and buildings, as the case may be.
  (2) Where the rent is inclusive of charges for
  
  electricity and water and the landlord is required to pay any increase in these
  
  charges in respect of any premises, he shall be entitled to make an increase in
  
  the rent of such premises by an amount not exceeding the additional amount
  
  payable by him in respect of such premises on account of such increase.
  (3) The amount of the increase in rent
  
  recoverable from each tenant under sub-sections (1) and (2) shall bear the same
  
  proportion as the rent payable by him in respect of his premises bears to the
  
  total amount of any such rate, cess, charges, tax, land assessment, ground rent
  
  of land or any other levy on lands and buildings, or increase in electricity or
  
  water charges, as the case may be.