NDP CANDIDATE BACKS DEMAND

‘Locally-made tax’ call

Baker’ for
municipalities to be allowed
the latitude to come up with
their own mill-rate formulas
to ensure the fairest method
of property taxation are
being backed by NDP
candidate David Schreck.
Schreck, the candidate for
the NDP im the North
Vancouver-Seymour riding,
agrees with Baker’s.. stand
that it should be up to the
municipalities to group

Properties m as wide a

present structure,” Schreck
said.

“How can we stop the
dramatic shifts mm the tax

burden between business
and residential taxpayers?”
Schreck blames _ the
present tax structure for
setting up ai system of
inequitable rates on_ the
different classes of property
- residential, commercial,
industrial, machinery and
equipment.

“The only policy choice
facing local councils is to
determine whether assessed

vanable system that might
be handled irresponsibly.”
However, Schreck sees no
reason to believe that
Victoria would be more

responsible than civic
governments.
‘*‘More importantly,

Victoria cannot set one ratio
between different types of
property that will always
satisfy the needs of every
municipality.

Sy

Hamber is

classification range as
possible once Victoria has
made up its mind to allow a
variable mill rate system in
attempts to even out
taxation inequities.

“We've seen far too much
power taken from _iocal
, government by Victoria,”
says Schreck, who main-
tains, “it's time to reverse
that trend.”

He agrees with Baker's
assertion that Victoria
should act now to introduce
a vanable mill rate system
“as the present system of
property taxes is unfair and
does not give local councils
enough autonomy in
deciding what ts good for the

Schreck says of the
present problem:

“In the 1970's we finally

developed ai system of
property assessment that

treated equally. Today's
problem ts whether unequals
are treated fairly - and that
camnot happen under the

value of each class of
property should be a
provincially determined
proportion of their market
value or whether they should
be full market value,”
Schreck said.

This, according to the
NDP candidate, gives the
municipal government “no
power to determine what is a
fair way to treat different
types of property.”

By implementing a
variable mill rate, councils
could solve the problem,
because the local govern-
ment would have the power
to apply a different mill rate
to each class of property.

“Fhe ‘danger is that
residential property tax-
payers have far more votes
than commercial and in-
dustrial, “Schreck warned.

“Of course, business
people fear that they would
be hit even harder as local
politicians try to collect
votes, but the choice is
between a policy straight-
jacket with provincially
determined tax burdens or a

easier than
Thwaytes

neighborhood
prompted North Vancouver
District's street naming
committee recently to urge
council to change the names
of two ‘streets in the com-

munity.
District's street naming
committee acted = after

receiving several complaints
from residents protesting
that both Thwaytes Place
and Thwaytes Court are far
too difficult to pronounce.

Harrison suggested that
council allow the committee
to rename the _ streets
Hamber Place and Hamber
Court.

Council agreed = and
authorized the municipal
clerk (to prepare the
necessary bylaw.

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