RESOLUTION

MOVED BY COUNCILLOR:

SECONDED BY COUNCILLOR:

THAT WHEREAS pursuant to Section 17(2) of the Assessment Authority Act, the British Columbia Assessment Authority in each year levies a tax on the net taxable value of all land and improvements in the City of Vancouver (excluding property that is taxable for school purposes only by special act);

AND WHEREAS on February 12, 2002, the Authority, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, levied the following tax rates on Class 1 - residential and Class 6 - business and other:

Class 1 - residential 0.12450
Class 6 - business and other 0.34860

being dollars of tax for each one thousand dollars of taxable value, for the 2002 taxation year, which when applied to the net taxable value of all land and improvements in the respective Classes in the City of Vancouver (excluding property taxable for school purposes only by special act) would raise the following sums:

Class 1 - residential $ 6,617,497
Class 6 - business and other $ 4,738,656

AND WHEREAS on March 26, 2002, pursuant to provisions of the Vancouver Charter, Council approved an adjustment of the net taxable value of land in Class 1 -residential and Class 6 - business and other, within the City of Vancouver;

AND WHEREAS the net taxable value and the adjusted taxable value pursuant to the Council by-law of March 26, 2002, of land in the above-noted Classes subject to taxation under the British Columbia Assessment Authority Act for the year 2002 are as follows:

Net Taxable Value Adjusted Taxable Value

Class 1 - residential $ 53,152,583,958 $ 52,821,610,235
Class 6 - business & other 13,593,389,655 13,565,387,612

AND WHEREAS Council is obliged to vary the rate set by the British Columbia Assessment Authority in order to produce the same amount of revenue that would have been raised if the net taxable value of the specified land had not been adjusted;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, in the case of Class 1 - residential, the rate of 0.12528 is hereby substituted for the rate of 0.12450; and in the case of Class 6 -business and other, the rate of 0.34932 is substituted for the rate of 0.34860 for taxationpursuant to the British Columbia Assessment Authority within the City of Vancouver for the 2002 taxation year.

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(c) 1998 City of Vancouver