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Anyone have any experience of appeals against home valuations for property tax charges?

I wonder if they just apply a blanket increase according to the survey they most like the look of ie the highest price rise.

Having received my bill yesterday showing a $500 increase after last year's $800 increase, I did a bit of internet research.

Statscan shows inflation running at 1.2% from Jan 06 to Jan 07 and only 0.3% in NB.

Shelter costs over the same period went up by 2.8% Nationally...no figure for NB.

Housing Prices - latest figures Oct 05 to Oct 06 shows 3.3%

Royal LePage Dec 05 to Dec 06 shows an average 8.3% with a 'two storey standard' rising by 6.6%.

I think the 9% increase for our slightly less than 2-storey is a bit inflated. Is the building of two 4-unit properties across the road likely to have a negative impact on prospective buyers?

BristolUK wrote:

Anyone have any experience of appeals against home valuations for property tax charges?

I wonder if they just apply a blanket increase according to the survey they most like the look of ie the highest price rise.

Having received my bill yesterday showing a $500 increase after last year's $800 increase, I did a bit of internet research.

Statscan shows inflation running at 1.2% from Jan 06 to Jan 07 and only 0.3% in NB.

Shelter costs over the same period went up by 2.8% Nationally...no figure for NB.

Housing Prices - latest figures Oct 05 to Oct 06 shows 3.3%

Royal LePage Dec 05 to Dec 06 shows an average 8.3% with a 'two storey standard' rising by 6.6%.

I think the 9% increase for our slightly less than 2-storey is a bit inflated. Is the building of two 4-unit properties across the road likely to have a negative impact on prospective buyers?

Thats called highway robbery.

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"I think we have done this before and we shall do it again. The players may be different but the rules of game remains the same".

I once bought a motor bike for $500.00. When I went to regester it they wanted me to pay taxes on it based on it's gold book value of $1500.00. I offered anybody there the option to buy it for $1,000.00. Nobody at the tax place seemed to want to buy it. I had to get it appraised at my own cost which I couldn't even deduct from the taxes I had to pay. It must sometimes be frustrating as hell for you home owners.

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