Municipal tax rate bylaws are required to be adopted before May 15th of each year. Tax rate files and tax burden files are available in July of that same year, as provided by the Government of British Columbia. Previous year data may be requested electronically.
Use Cases
- Compare municipal tax burdens based on tax rate files
- Analyze local government fiscal policy based on tax rate bylaws
- Study property tax assessment trends for the 2013 fiscal year
Strengths
- Data is provided by the Government of British Columbia, an authoritative source
- Data is structured according to municipal tax rate bylaws adopted before May 15th
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- 2013
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada