Local Government Property Tax Rates and Assessments for a Representative House, 2011

Municipal tax rate bylaws are required to be adopted before May 15th of each year, with files available in July. The dataset from the Government of British Columbia covers taxes and charges on a representative house for the 2011 tax year. Data is provided in XLS and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare municipal tax burdens across jurisdictions based on the representative house concept.
• Analyze local government tax rate adoption timelines based on the May 15th deadline mentioned.
• Model property tax liabilities for a standardized housing unit based on the 2011 assessment data.
• Study the relationship between tax rates and local public finance based on the described tax burden files.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Government of British Columbia.
• Specific annual timeline for data availability (bylaws by May 15, files in July) is documented.
• Provided in structured, machine-readable XLS format.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single year (2011), limiting temporal analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Municipal tax rate bylaws and tax burden files.

Time Range

2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:28:44.004567; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada