Spallumcheen is joining the opposition over how medical marijuana operations are assessed. Mayor Janice Brown says they have a bylaw at second reading, that would restrict them to industrial lands. Brown says the government is rating the operations as farm. "That doesn't make any sense. The reason we had asked for it in industrial is so then we could get the tax base and have a business license and control it all," Brown tells Kiss FM. The municipality would lose a lot of tax revenue if the assessments are kept at farming, as industrial land is a higher rate. "We feel it will increase our workload. We feel it should be industrial, agricultural or processing. You write the law for vegetables and carrots and you just can't just stick medical marijuana in there with all the same rules," adds Brown. The bylaw will go to public hearing April 7.
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Don Quixote Note: In Spall the municipal taxes on a $100,000 property assessed as Light industrial would be 1,295.58 while a farm assessment's municipal taxes would be $588.90. ($706.68 decrease)
In Vernon the municipal taxes on a $100,000 property assessed as Light industrial would be 1,148.37while a farm assessment's municipal taxes would be $76.43.. ($1,071.94 decrease)
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