By Angela Brown

N.B. residents will get a slight extension for their taxes

Jun 27, 2017 | 5:00 PM

City of North Battleford residents will have a slight extension for returning their taxes this year since city staff encountered a delay in sending out the notices.

Mayor Ryan Bater said the cause of the city’s delay is two-fold, resulting from the reassessment-year process, and the city’s efforts to digest the impact from the provincial budget. 

The bylaw for the new mill rate was approved at council’s meeting Monday night. 

During Monday’s meeting, council voted in favour of the bylaw to establish the new mill rate, which only one member, Coun. Kelli Hawtin, opposed. 

“I expect tax notices will be going out,” the mayor said. “We did extend the deadline. It’s normally June 30 but it’s now going to be August 31. 

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“We’ve given the entire summer for taxpayers to pay their taxes.”

Bater said the delay relates to the “extraordinary circumstances” the city has with after the provincial budget’s reveal. 

“I don’t like the added taxation related to the impact of the provincial budget,” he said. “I don’t think anybody on council enjoyed approving that. We took a lot of measures including reducing capital. We had to reduce our operating budget by almost half a million dollars, and we were still left with what was an additional three per cent.”

He said the rate will appear on people’s tax notices as a provincial government budget impact or downloading levy, so taxpayers are aware that the cause of this increase was directly due to the provincial budget.

“Council had approved a three per cent property tax increase back in December, but we had to add an additional three per cent because of the provincial budget, so the total impact now is 6 [per cent increase],” Bater said. “Now that the bylaws are passed, tax notices will be going out, and people should expect those pretty soon.” 

 angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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