Taxpayer Questions

Two letters to the editor, published in the Morning Star June 14th, 2015:

"High Taxes
We just received our 2015 property tax notice.  The insert says there's a "3.42 per cent overall increase in all property tax revenue."

Our home is the same as it was last year, the year before that, and the year before that, but our property taxes are 14.64 per cent higher this year than last.  

Do you ever have the feeling that you can't win?"
Don Rollins


"Water Use
Perhaps someone can tell me why residential users are asked to water at night while the corn fields just outside of town are allowed to be watered during the heat of the day?

The loss due to evaporation must be enormous.  This is particularly galling when residential customers using the same water are subsidizing these users through the exorbitant rates they are being charged to the point we are paying twice as much as Penticton residential users and three times that of Kelowna residents.

Given such wasteful practises, the subsidization of commercial users should end and water rates brought down to a reasonable level."
Brian Sutch

"The result of increased gouging by all levels of government is that people will actually ask questions and make similar statements," offers Kia, adding "and it'll only increase."