A7 - Wedmesday, May 12, 1982 - North Shore News

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WEST VAN TAXES

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Dear Editor:

In the recent issue of the
West Vancouver Municipal
news, there is a statement
that some property owners
may not have received tax
notices by the closing dead-
line of July 5, 1982, but these
same property owners
should pay taxes on or prior
to that date regardless.

Government, like

any
other, is a service
organization and must

ensure that the management
of its finances and collection
of its fees remain efficient in
order for the rest of its
operations to be effective.
When it appears that
normal billing procedure for
tax notices has fallen behind,

no pay!

then one suspects that the
rest of the organization is in
similar difficulties. The
arbitrary demand that the
customer pays on a deadline,
but the service organization
can’t sort out the bills, takes
away from the customer one
of the few levers that the
customer (the public) has.

How many people in that
same government would pay
for a service’ before
receiving some _ kind of
invoice or account?

No one should pay any
property taxes by any dead-
line unless the tax office has
got its own papers in order.

E.T. Laker
West Vancouver.

Dear Editor:

Regarding your headkhine
of May Sth: as an employee
of Canadian Oxy or
“Hooker” as you insist on
using, I would like to say I’m
tired of being harrassed by

the “Enquiresque” North
Shore News. It is about time
the employees of this

company stood up and were
counted instead of turning
the other cheek and hoping
the emotionalism would die
down.

I like my job and don't
want to look for another. |
live within walking distance
of the plant in the “nest of
Sheila Gordon supporters”
and I feel safer at work than
I do walking to and from, the
way some people drive these
days.

Interest rates damage

FROM PAGE A6

productive capacity.

If on the other hand the
high interest rate policy is
maintained, not only will
new investment be curtailed
but our existing productive
capacity will also be whittled
away.

The danger to our
productive capacity occurs
because when a company
goes bankrupt or liquidates,

its assets are sold at fire sale
prices and in many cases
businessmen not only lose all
their equity, but they lose

their credit rating and
motivation as well. As a
consequence when_ the

economy subsequently
recovers, their productive
capacity is no longer there.
Reduced productive
capacity will then result in
worse inflation because
existing capacity cannot
meet growing demands.

Therefore, if Trudeau
really wants Canada to be in
a position to benefit from the
recovery when it comes, he
should lower interest rates
NOW so that some of our
existing capacity will not be
destroyed, and so_ that
Canadian business will have
a head start over the
Americans when recovery
does come.

Paul Hundal .
North Vancouver

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I have given up reading
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North Vancouver

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Secondary School

June 11, 1982

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