March 25-31, 2008 Business in Vancouver Real estate roundup: Peter Mitham The eternal certainties Death and taxes may be the only certainties in this world, but the Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition is back to hoping one on the other – death on taxes, that is, not a tax on death. Recent coalition statements have been [...]
March 20, 2008 Georgia Straight By Matthew Burrows Raymond Louie burns Ken Bayne on business taxes Ken Bayne, the City’s director of financial planning and treasury, told council he will “accept the criticism” from Coun. Raymond Louie that his department has not pushed hard enough to address the fact that small businesses pay the same [...]
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Property owners tell TransLink they’re tired of being taxed Transportation board holds public hearing to sound out public support for $18-million tax increase A hearing on TransLink’s plans to impose an $18-million tax increase on property owners drew about 50 people Monday night, filling only about [...]
National Post Monday, March 17, 2008 Page: FP4 Section: Financial Post Byline: Denise Deveau Source: Financial Post The price of a Canadian city address Art Works Gallery owner Deanna Geisheimer is conflicted. On the one hand, she’s always loved being a part of the downtown Vancouver business community. On the other, tax increases are turning [...]
MetroValley Newspaper Group Mon 17 Mar 2008 Page: 1 Section: Bc Local News – News Tax hike topic of TransLink hearing tonight TransLink holds a public hearing tonight on whether it should increase residential property taxes by seven per cent. The authority needs to raise $18 million to replace the defunct parking stall tax, which [...]
Tex Enemark, Special to the Sun Published: Thursday, March 13, 2008 A tax too far Municipalities pile the load on the business and industrial taxpayers. And nobody cares until the plant shuts down Every year, in early March, municipal councils go through the process of setting their budgets and then deciding how to pay for [...]
Mar, 13 2008 – 2:50 PM CKNW Tax Shift at City Hall VANCOUVER – Good news for small businesses, not so good for residents. Vancouver city council has voted to increase residential property tax by one percent per year for the next five years. Business property taxes will decrease by the same amount. It’s an [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Ed Des Roches and Bob Laurie Special to the Sun Council can correct this tax inequity Vancouver city council will be making one of its most important property tax decisions since 1983, when it was given responsibility for distributing general municipal taxes among the different property classes. A lot is at [...]
Frances Bula, Vancouver Sun Published: Monday, March 10, 2008 Mayor sees tax shift as ‘doing the right thing’ Sullivan in favour of supporting move to trim business taxes while putting more burden on homeowners Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan says he will support shifting taxes from business to homeowners again this year even though it knows [...]
The province is bringing in a property tax hike Mar, 05 2008 – 12:00 PM VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) – That controversial parking tax that was scrapped by the province is coming back in form of a property tax hike. The question is who should pay more, businesses or homeowners? Translink needs to make up 18 million dollars [...]
