British Columbia Municipal Tax Rates and Charges for Representative Houses, 2007

Municipal tax rate bylaws in British Columbia must be adopted before May 15th each year. This dataset likely contains tax rates and charges levied on a representative house for the year 2007, with files available in July of that year. It is provided by the Government of British Columbia under an open license.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal tax burdens based on charges levied on a representative house.
• Compare tax rates across different local governments in British Columbia.
• Study the relationship between tax rate adoption deadlines and final tax files.
• Model property tax liabilities for a standardized residential property.
• Track the annual availability cycle of tax rate and tax burden files.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the Government of British Columbia, an authoritative source.
• Files are available in multiple formats (XLS, HTML) for different use cases.
• The dataset is licensed under OGL-CA-2.0, facilitating open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is specific to the year 2007 and a single province (British Columbia).

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Likely compiled from municipal tax rate bylaws and assessments.

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:31:28.696974; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada