British Columbia Municipal Tax Rates and Burden by Year

Municipal tax rate bylaws in British Columbia are required to be adopted before May 15th each year, with the resulting tax burden data released in July. This series provides annual snapshots of local government tax rates and assessments from 2003 to 2012. The data likely contains tax rates and burden calculations for municipalities across the province.

Use Cases

• Analyzing year-over-year changes in municipal tax burdens based on annual tax rate bylaws.
• Comparing property tax rates across different local governments in British Columbia.
• Studying the fiscal policy timeline from bylaw adoption in May to data publication in July.
• Modeling the distribution of tax burden across property types or regions.

Strengths

• Covers a consistent ten-year time series from 2003 to 2012.
• Data is released on a predictable annual schedule following bylaw adoption.

Limitations

• Column names and specific data structure are not documented in the provided metadata.
• The dataset size, row counts, and specific file formats beyond XLS/HTML are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Collected from municipal tax rate bylaws adopted annually by local governments.

Time Range

2003 to 2012

Freshness

Last updated metadata dates range from 2026-04-17 15:25:06 to 2026-04-17 15:38:23.

Geography

Municipalities in British Columbia, Canada