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Provincial legislation in Saskatchewan mandates that the assessed values, on which school and municipal property taxes are levied, be updated every four years. During a recent presentation, representatives of the Government of Saskatchewan provided preliminary estimates of the impact that the forthcoming update will have on assessed values.

On June 24, the Governor of Louisiana delivered an order on the 65–70-year-old Industrial Tax Exemption Program (ITEP) that led to hostility between the Governor and new Board of Commerce & Industry (BCI) and the Industry representatives and staff of the LED.

Completely Compliance is a quarterly e-newsletter exclusively for clients and employees of DMA. Here is the latest update from Washington.

If you’re a multi-residential landlord or manager, did you know that MPAC has changed the method and approach they will use to establish the 2016 Current Value Assessment (2016 CVA) for the 2017 to 2020 taxation years.

Changes are coming to the Ontario Assessment Review Board. Read more about the proposed changes in this article.

On May 31, the draft Modernized Municipal Government Act (MGA) was introduced into the Alberta legislature for First Reading. The legislation, labeled as Bill 21, will now be tabled for the summer while the province engages in province-wide stakeholder consultations through various city visits across Alberta. There are some positives and negatives from the proposed legislation. Here are some of the larger ones relating to property tax assessment:

This is the long standing question that is always debated. What is the impact of property tax savings on my asset value?

Case Law Appellate Decision Confirms Municipal Power to Amend Tax Rates Over the Course of a Fiscal Year

There are a number of GST/HST changes coming up in 2016 that businesses will need to be aware of:

DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc. (DMA) provides this Update to inform its clients of today’s Texas Supreme Court opinion in Southwest Royalties, Inc. v. Hegar, relating to the manufacturing exemption from Texas sales and use tax.