Media Advisory - BC Assessment to announce the 2015 Property Assessment Roll

Date: Morning of Friday, January 2, 2015

Location: Province-wide for British Columbia including all municipalities

VICTORIA, Dec. 29, 2014 /CNW/ -

Media Information and Interviews:

• BC Assessment will issue approximately 50 local area news releases on Friday, January 2, 2015 with highlights of property assessment changes in local communities.
• All news releases, as well as statistics and general information about the 2015 Assessment Roll, will be posted on www.bcassessment.ca on January 2.
• Of note, BC Assessment's website will list the Top Valued Properties for all of British Columbia as well as by regional breakdown.
• For interviews, starting January 2, contact the designated media contact on the local news release.
• NOTE: BC Assessment is closed for business on January 1 for the New Year's Day holiday. Full customer service resumes on Friday, January 2. Offices will then be closed again on Saturday, January 3 and Sunday, January 4^th, reopening on Monday, January 5^th.

Background:

• Nearly two million property owners will receive their 2015 property assessment notice by mail in early January.
• Starting in January, the public can use the free, newly-enhanced e-valueBC search tool on BC Assessment's website to compare their 2015 property assessment to others.
• The mandate of BC Assessment, a provincial Crown corporation, is to establish and maintain uniform real property assessments throughout British Columbia in accordance with the Assessment Act.
• The Act requires that BC Assessment produce annual rolls with assessments at market value (estimated valuation date as of July 1, 2014 for market value properties).

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SOURCE: BC Assessment

Website: www.bcassessment.ca