ARTICLES (Op Ed’s Below)
Letter: Commercial property assessments out of whack- SEPT 2024
Letter: Commercial property assessments out of whack - Cowichan Valley Citizen
Retired assessor shines light on undervalued commercial properties- Okanagan- Feb 2024
Retired assessor shines light on undervalued commercial properties | News | kelownadailycourier.ca
https://www.lakecowichangazette.com/home/retired-appraiser-waging-fight-against-underassessed-commercial-industrial-properties-7395497
UNDER-ASSESSING LARGER INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT PROPERTIES IN THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
https://globalnews.ca/news/10303954/district-of-squamish-bc-assessment-overhaul/
Is BC Assessment Letting Businesses Dodge Property Taxes? March 2023 Andrew Macleod The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/17/BC-Assessment-Letting-Businesses-Dodge-Property-Taxes/
It Pays to Pollute In BC. Pollution reduces property value — and property taxes. That creates an incentive to slow brownfield remediation, experts say.- JAN 2022 MICHELLE GAMAGE The tyee
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/01/18/It-Pays-To-Pollute-In-BC/
Bracing for the hits: How big landowners are cutting their property taxes, and how it affects your municipality and you- JAN 2022 LORI CULBERT & DAN FUMANO VANCOUVER SUN
https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/risk-to-roll-more-big-property-owners-fight-taxes-forcing-small-land-owners-to-pay-more
Veteran assessor says BC ASSESSMENT has been flying blind- Jan 2019 Andrew Duffy TIMES COLONIST
https://www.timescolonist.com/real-estate/process-for-commercial-property-assessments-in-b-c-lacks-teeth-critics-1.23602852
B.C. has lost millions to undervalued commercial properties- Jan 2019 KERRY GOLD GLOBE & MAIL
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-bc-has-lost-millions-to-under-assessed-commercial-properties-former/
SEASPAN- Owner of Site that’s Contaminated Burrard Inlet for Years Now Wants a Tax Break- SEPT 2019 MICHELLE GAMAGE THE TYEE
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/05/Burrard-Inlet-Site-Wants-Tax-Break/
tax shift could be entirely unnecessary if large industrial-commercial-investment properties were properly assessed each year- JAN 2019 Elizabeth Murphy Business IN Vancouver
https://biv.com/article/2019/01/municipal-taxes-vancouver-good-bad-and-ugly
Process for commercial property assessments in B.C. lacks teeth- JAN 2019 ANDREW DUFFY TIMES COLONIST
https://www.timescolonist.com/real-estate/process-for-commercial-property-assessments-in-b-c-lacks-teeth-critics-1.23602852
OPINION EDITORIALS- DEREK HOLLOWAY