| Town takes action on late taxes |
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| Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:10 |
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By Paul Grigaitis The town is moving forward with tax collection procedures on those who owe property taxes outstanding from 2008. Council was presented at their regular meeting last week with a list of those with outstanding taxes as of Nov. 6. In order to streamline the collection process, council passed a motion to overlook the focus on those who owe less than 50 per cent of their 2008 taxes while focussing on those who owe in excess of 50 per cent of their 2008 levy. Eleven property owners still owe taxes in excess of their 2008 levy. Their outstanding bills totals to an amount of $19,848. The amount of taxes outstanding from those who owe less than their 2008 levy totals $2,786. A list of lands with tax arrears will be advertised in the newspaper. There will be no personal information listed as properties will be identified by lot, block and plan. Taxpayers will be given a period of 60 days to make payments, town administrator Mark Caswell explained. “If there is no attempt made, then a tax lien will be registered against that property. Six months after that tax lien is registered, if there’s still been no action then we serve the owner of property with what’s called a notice of intent. Basically it’s a notice of intent to seize the property for tax arrears,” Caswell said. Almost always, taxpayers square up by that point, he added. A period of time elapses after the notice of intent before the town can apply to the provincial mediation board in order to move forward with seizure. “It’s very rare that we seize a property,” Caswell said. He expects a list of lands with tax arrears to be advertised in Thursday’s newspaper. |
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