2026 Tax Rates Bylaw — full text

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## 2026 Tax Rates Bylaw Bylaw 1456 Effective May 2026 ## A Bylaw for the levying of property taxation rates for municipal and external taxing authorities for 2026. WHEREAS Section 197 of the Community Charterrequires that Council adopt a bylaw to establish tax rates on all taxable land and improvements according to their assessed value. NOW THEREFORE the Council of the City of Castlegar, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows: 1. This bylaw may be cited as the "2026 Tax Rates Bylaw 1456." 2. This bylaw is to establish tax rates on all taxable and improvements. 3. Schedule "A" attached to and forming part of this bylaw is hereby adopted as the following Tax Rates imposed and levied for the year 2026: - a. For all lawful general purposes of the municipality, on the value of land and improvements taxable for general municipal purposes, (excluding those properties in the boundary expansion OIC #489 Supplementary Letters Patent effective May 20, 2004, described as "secondly") those rates set out in Column "A" of the Tax Rate Schedule, attached hereto as Schedule "A"; - b. For all lawful general purposes of the municipality, on the value of land and improvements taxable for municipal policing purposes, (excluding those properties in the boundary expansion OIC #489 Supplementary Letters Patent effective May 20, 2004, described as "secondly") those rates set out in Column "A" of the Tax Rate Schedule, attached hereto as Schedule "A"; - c. For the lawful general, capital and loan and future capital purposes of the municipality, on the value of land and improvements taxable for general municipal purposes, (excluding those properties in the boundary expansion OIC #489 Supplementary Letters Patent effective May 20, 2004 described as "secondly") those rates set out in Column "B" of the Tax Rate Schedule, attached hereto as Schedule "A"; - d. For hospital purposes, on the value of land and improvements taxable for regional hospital district purposes, those rates set out in Column "C" of the Tax Rate Schedule, attached hereto as Schedule "A"; - e. For purposes of the Regional District of Central Kootenay, on the value of land and improvements taxable for regional hospital district purposes, those rates set out in Column "D" of the Tax Rate Schedule, attached hereto as Schedule "A"; - f. For those properties included in the boundary expansion and described as "secondly" in OIC #489 Supplementary Letters Patent effective May 20, 2004, for all lawful general purposes of the municipality on the value of land and improvements taxable for general municipal purposes, the rates appearing in column "E" of the Tax Rate Schedule, attached hereto as Schedule "A". The sum of which includes the following and is added to the rates prescribed by the lieutenant governor in council as described in section (d)(c). - i) The tax rate that is equivalent to the tax rate levied by the Provincial Surveyor of Taxes in the prevailing taxation year for the purpose of recovering the cost of those services of the regional district for which the service area is comprised of all electoral areas of the regional district, and those services of the regional district for which the service area is comprised of all electoral areas and one or more municipalities other than the City of Castlegar; plus - ii) The tax rate that is required to recover the amount submitted by the regional district pursuant to section 5.0 and 5.1 of OIC #489 Supplementary Letters Patent effective May 20, 2004, including the amount for services accepted by the Council as set out in section 6.0 (b) of the Supplementary Letters Patent. 4. 2026 Tax Rates Bylaw 1456 shall come into full force and effect when adopted ## Repeal 2025 Tax Rates Bylaw No. 1440, 2025 is hereby repealed. READ A FIRST TIME this 20th day of April 2026. READ A SECOND TIME this 20t day of April 2026. READ A THIRD TIME this 20*h day of April 2026. ADOPTED this 11th day of May 2026.   Bof Beeeese ## Schedule A City of Castlegar Bylaw 1456 2026 Tax Rate Schedule ## Dollars of Tax per $1,000 of Taxable Assessed Value | Property Class | "A" General Municipal | "B" Municipal Policing | "C" General Capital, and Future Capital | "D' Regional Hospital | "E" Regional District of Central Kootenay | "F" Boundary Expansion OIC 489 SLP | |--------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------| | 1 Residential | 1.9731 | 0.6739 | 0.3947 | 0.1565 | 1.3515 | | | 2 Utility | 25.9473 | 8.8627 | 5,1900 | 0.5477 | 4.7304 | 4.2345 | | 4 Major Industry | 29.5564 | 10.0954 | 5.9119 | 0.5320 | 4.5952 | | | 5 Light Industry | 7.7541 | 2.6485 | 1.5510 | 0.5320 | 4.5952 | | | 6 Business and Other | 7.5785 | 2.5885 | 1.5159 | 0.3834 | 3.3113 | 4.2345 | | 8 Recreation/Non- profit | 2.3677 | 0.8087 | 0.4736 | 0.1565 | 1.3515 | |