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NVD industries upset over 30.2% tax hike

LEADERS in
North Vancouver District
reacted with ‘‘shock’’ and
“*surprise’’ to the news of
Monday's 30.2% municipal
fax increase for major in-
dustries operating in the
municipality.

INDUSTRY

By Michael Becker

News Reporter

Thornton, Cana-
dianOxy | tndustrial Chemicals
riant manager. “Sl was just i
shock. We're ina recession and
nobody knows how that’s going to

Said Brian

come out —— governs. oat and in-
dustry alike are takine 2 heating."

Added Ed Ginn. manager of
Dow Canada’s West) Coust
Dietribution Centre, Mey feeling
ix thar industry budgets are ne
different than 'ouschold budgets:
there's no bottomless pit of
moneys out theee and we have to
live within oie means aad a 30%

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Merease is pretty difticult."

And Brian Smeth, plant nian.
ager Afbricht & Wilson Americas
plant: (ortmerly Ereo). called the
Increase “way out of fine."

Said Smythe, think that the
municipality really has to look at
how they are operating und look
at the other side of the balance
sheet ta see what they can do
more efficiently and what pro-
vramy they can cut out.”

Added Smythe. ‘In general a
fot of Canadian companies are

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having trouble competing these
days and certainly something like
this doesn't helpyand it might: be
the final straw that puts some
companies under. Certainly we
want to be seen to be paying our
fair share of it (any!

Meanwhile Vancouver Wharves
Lid., the largest single taxpayer in
the municipality, paid $159,613 in
municipal taxes in 198 and
$782,000 in 1990.

CanadianOaxy paid
municipal taxes in’ 1980 and
$475,000 in 1990. The company
paid a total $887,000 (including
school and other) taxes for the
North Vancouver operation in
1980 and $845,000 in 1996.

Albright & Wilson) Americas
(formerly Erco) paid municipal
taxes of $29,000 in) 1980) and
$210,000 in 1990.

North Vancouver District Ald.
Ernie Crist said the first: reading
of the tax rate bylaw — inchiding
the 30.2% industrial tax hike —
Was passed unanimously by coun-
cil.

Said Crist, ‘Consider the tol-
lowing: the increase in the assess.
ment in 1990 over 1989 for home-
owners was 41%, for business it
Was 35%, and for major industry
it was 12%. [n order for them to
keep in step they would have to
pay a rate several times the
homeowner's.

“Here is the basic discrepaney:
a homeowner is assessed at the
true, or market or replacement
value. industry, however, is not
assessed at its true or market or
replacement value. The provincial
government has taken off the ma-
chinery and the equipment so all
you have left is the buildinys and
that is what the assessment is bas-
ed on,”* Crist added.

But said Smythe. “ft don’t think
Ernie Crist appreciates all of the
stuff the comparvies are doing in
North Vancouver in terms of
conumunity involvement, contribu-
ons to support different things.

$96,000 in

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