"Only death and taxes are inevitable…"
None of us will avoid death, and the only way that you can avoid paying tax to the improvement district if you really don't belong on the tax role. After months of collaboration with BC Assessment Authority and Land Titles Office, trustees confirmed last winter that there were a handful of properties that had been mistakenly added to the improvement district tax role. There were several reasons for the mix-up: information gaps between government authorities, no official tax folio with BC Assessment, no official map of the improvement district, and the creation of subdivisions over the years. All the money was refunded to those who should not have paid taxes and all of the gaps that led to the errors have been corrected. If those residents had known they did not belong on the role, they could have reported it at the Court of Revision, which has always been in place.
The "Court of Revision" is part of the official process to report errors on your tax bill. The Court considers complaints about information on the assessment roll such as description, ownership, or that the property was placed in the wrong assessment category. Complaints about the taxes levied against the property are not the concern of the Court. (Land Improvement District Manual Section C, page 30)
Your tax notice will be mailed to you in mid-September and payment is due November 30. The notice will include information about the process, day, and time for the Court of Revision, which will be held no less than 2 weeks after the notices are mailed.
Trustees
None of us will avoid death, and the only way that you can avoid paying tax to the improvement district if you really don't belong on the tax role. After months of collaboration with BC Assessment Authority and Land Titles Office, trustees confirmed last winter that there were a handful of properties that had been mistakenly added to the improvement district tax role. There were several reasons for the mix-up: information gaps between government authorities, no official tax folio with BC Assessment, no official map of the improvement district, and the creation of subdivisions over the years. All the money was refunded to those who should not have paid taxes and all of the gaps that led to the errors have been corrected. If those residents had known they did not belong on the role, they could have reported it at the Court of Revision, which has always been in place.
The "Court of Revision" is part of the official process to report errors on your tax bill. The Court considers complaints about information on the assessment roll such as description, ownership, or that the property was placed in the wrong assessment category. Complaints about the taxes levied against the property are not the concern of the Court. (Land Improvement District Manual Section C, page 30)
Your tax notice will be mailed to you in mid-September and payment is due November 30. The notice will include information about the process, day, and time for the Court of Revision, which will be held no less than 2 weeks after the notices are mailed.
Trustees