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So I paid my (CoV) property tax for myself, and the (BBY) property tax for my MIL just now. I think they're due before July 3? (Gonna be forcing myself to eat nothing but plain bread the next few weeks to psychologically compensate for the wallet hurting...)
What struck me during the paying process was, the amount I was paying seemed much higher than last year, esp for my MIL. So I pulled out the numbers from 2023 for a quick check, and lo and behold:
- my 2024 CoV payment is 12.x% higher than 2023
- MIL's BBY payment is almost 17% higher than 2023
The CoV property tax increase for 2024 was supposed to be 7.5%, and the one for Burnaby was supposed to be 4.5%.
Now, I know there are additional fees that get tacked on to the property tax payment. School fees, garbage collection fees, etc. The list for Burnaby is a little different, but there is a short list of misc fees as well. I didn't do a line by line comparison to see what the individual increases were, or what new items might have been tacked on to the property tax bill. But at the end of the day, this means those various miscellaneous fees have gone up by quite a bit -- far more than the announced property tax increase.
Again, gonna be eating nothing but plain bread the next few weeks to (mentally) compensate for the unexpected hikes...
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