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Jul 04, 2023 | Interest rates for refunds of tax overpayments, refund of municipal tax sale money and on taxes in arrear or delinquent are set January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1. Circulars provided by Ministry of Municipal Affairs. | [239 CC; 654(4), 668(2) LGA; 245 CC; 246 CC; 1, 2 MTR; IRR, 24 HOGR] |
Jul 04, 2023 | Property taxes due on July 2, unless municipality has established an alternative tax collection scheme. | [234(1) CC; 2 MHTA; MHA |
Jul 04, 2023 | Apply penalty to unpaid taxes on next day after due date. | [234(2) CC and 3 MTR] |
Jul 05, 2023 | First date upon which the collector of taxes in a municipality may register a financing statement in the personal property registry, with respect to taxes for a manufactured home imposed under the Local Government Act that have become due. | [28(1) MHA] |
Jul 14, 2023 | Where a municipality is collecting taxes for a regional transit commission, it shall on or before the 15th day of each calendar month, pay to British Columbia Transit all of those taxes collected during the preceding calendar month. | [17 BCTR] |
Jul 17, 2023 | Last day for municipalities to pay to the Minister of Finance an instalment equal to the difference between (1) the amount equal to the sum of the amount of general school taxes under (2) and additional school taxes under (3), and (2) the administration fee prescribed under s. 124(10) SA. If a municipality has an additional municipal tax due date, the municipality must pay to the minister, on or before the tenth business day after that additional municipal tax due date, an instalment equal to the sum of the following amounts the balance of general school taxes and the balance of additional school taxes. | [3, 4 STRR] |
Jul 17, 2023 | For municipalities with a July 2 tax due date, the last day for a municipality collecting police taxes for a taxation year to pay to the minister an instalment equal to the balance of the police taxes collected by the municipality on or before the municipal tax due date after making adjustments, if any, referred to in section 66.41 [adjustments] of the Police Act, and deducting the administration fee, if any, authorized under section 66.9 [minister may authorize administration fee] of the Act. Together with such instalment, a municipality must submit to the minister a statement certifying that the instalment was calculated in accordance with s. 3 and that it is correct. The statement must be certified by the collector or a person in another position authorized for that purpose by the municipality. | [1, 3(a), 5 PTR] |
Jul 27, 2023 | Last date for claiming tax sale surplus from 2021 tax sale, after which the unclaimed surplus must be transferred to BC Unclaimed Property Society, assuming publication on last day (if unclaimed 3 months after publication under LGA s. 659(5)). | [254 CC; 659(6) LGA] |
Jul 31, 2023 | The proceeds of taxes levied and collected under an Assessment Authority bylaw must be paid to the Assessment Authority by the municipality before August 1 in the year the tax was levied. | [20(3) AAA] |
Jul 31, 2023 | Last day for the municipality or the Minister of Finance to pay to the Municipal Finance Authority the proceeds of rates levied to finance the debt reserve fund and the operating fund. Proceeds to be paid by August 1st in the year in which the rates were levied. | [19(4) MFAA] |
Jul 31, 2023 | Monthly reports to: Canada Revenue Agency for GST/PST; Statistics Canada for building permits; Health Authority for water quality testing. | |
Jul 31, 2023 | In each year in which the South Coast BC Transportation Authority assesses taxes, affected municipalities must pay to the authority, by August 1 of the year for which the taxes are assessed, all of the assessed taxes that have been collected by July 15 of that year. | [26(2) SCBCTAA] |
AA |
Assessment Act |
HOGA |
Home Owner Grant Act |
AAA |
Assessment Authority Act |
HOGR |
Home Owner Grant Regulation |
AAR |
Assessment Act Regulation |
IRR |
Interest Rates Under Various Statutes Regulation |
ALCA |
Agricultural Land Commission Act |
LA |
Library Act |
AAPR |
Assessment Averaging and Phasing Regulation |
LECFA |
Local Elections Campaign Financing Act |
ALRR |
Agricultural Land Reserve, ;Use, Subdivision and Procedures Regulation |
LTDA |
Land Tax Deferment Act |
BCTA |
BC Transit Act |
MEVA |
Municipalities Enabling and Validating (No. 4) |
BCTR |
BC Transit Regulation |
MFAA |
Municipal Finance Authority Act |
CC |
Community Charter |
MHA |
Manufactured Home Act |
CIFSA |
Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act |
MHTA |
Manufactured Home Tax Act |
CIFSR |
Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Regulation |
MTR |
Municipal Tax Regulation |
ESC19A |
Economic Stablization (COVID-19) Act |
MWR |
Municipal Wastewater Regulation |
EMA |
Environmental Management Act |
PA |
Police Act |
FDA |
Financial Disclosure Act |
PTR |
Police Tax Regulation |
FIA |
Financial Information Act |
SA |
School Act |
FWA |
Fireworks Act |
SCBCTAA |
South Coast BC Transportation
Authority Act |
HDA |
Hospital District Act |
STRR |
School Tax Remitting Regulation |
HDAR |
Hospital District Act Regulation |
WCA |
Weed Control Act |