property taxes

Utility rates on the rise in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - Taxpayers will have to dig a little deeper in their pockets in 2016, utility charges and property taxes are set to increase by an average of nearly $60 per household. Council was presented with a preliminary budget report and asked to authorize an additional $2.95 million to the combined operational and capital budgets...

Who’s paying their property taxes and who isn’t in Kelowna

KELOWNA - All in all, we’re a pretty honest bunch if measured by how promptly we pay our property taxes. “We do have some people who don’t like having to pay but the majority of people are really good about it,” financial planning manager George King says. Property taxes totalling $226.7 million were due by...

How City Hall is making it easier to pay your taxes this year

KAMLOOPS - When paying your property taxes, the City of Kamloops is offering you another option: Charge it. A Thompson Rivers University team recently looked at what options the city could provide to make paying taxes easier including drop boxes, credit card payment, self-service kiosks and more advertising.  More property owners paid their taxes online...

ELECTIONS 2014: Candidates tackle taxes

WOULD SERVICE LEVELS NEED TO CHANGE? KAMLOOPS - There is a lot of information to sort through as we head into elections, so we decided to make the candidates answer a series of five questions as directly as possible, and in as few characters as possible. First we looked at the proposed Ajax Mine, today...

UPDATE: Temporary North Shore payment office approved

KAMLOOPS - McArthur Island residents won't need to travel to City Hall this year to pay taxes after a pilot project for a local payment site was approved. Staff asked council to approve the project allowing for a payment processing site at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre for the 2014 property tax season. Part...