Vancouver City Council

RESOLUTION

MOVED BY COUNCILLOR:

SECONDED BY COUNCILLOR:

THAT WHEREAS pursuant to Section 119(3) of the School Act, the Surveyor of Taxes for the Province of British Columbia in each year levies a tax on the net taxable value of all land and improvements in the City of Vancouver;

AND WHEREAS on April 21, 2004 by Orders-in-Council No. 0398 and No. 0399, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council levied the following tax rates on Class 1 - Residential and Class 6 - business and other:

Class 1 - residential 2.5937
Class 6 - business and other 9.9000

being dollars of tax for each one thousand dollars of taxable value, for the 2004 taxation year, which when applied to the net taxable value of all land and improvements in the respective Classes in the City of Vancouver would raise the following sums:

Class 1 - residential $ 168,908,133
Class 6 - business and other $ 142,044,855

AND WHEREAS on March 25, 2004, pursuant to provisions of the Vancouver Charter, Council approved Bylaw 8822 which authorized 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 25, 2004, of land in the above-noted Classes subject to taxation under the School Act for the year 2004 are as follows:

Net Taxable Value Adjusted Taxable Value

Class 1 - residential $ 65,122,463,395 $ 61,230,556,701
Class 6 - business & other 14,347,965,159 13,718,414,109

AND WHEREAS Council is obliged to vary the rate set by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council 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 2.75856 is hereby substituted for the rate of 2.5937; and in the case of Class 6 - business and other, the rate of 10.35432 is substituted for the rate of 9.9000 for taxation pursuant to the School Act within the City of Vancouver for the 2004 taxation year.