Core Legislative Mandates Sample Clauses

Core Legislative Mandates. BC Assessment has a legislative mandate to value all properties in British Columbia. It has been provided this mandate by the provincial government in order to provide the provincial government, municipalities, regional districts, taxing treaty First Nations, and the Nisga’a Lisims Government with an accurate, legislatively determined, consistent basis for the application of value based property taxes. To carry out that mandate, BC Assessment collects, maintains and uses relevant data. The costs associated with this mandate are funded directly by the property taxpayers of BC through a tax levied by BC Assessment. As part of the core mandate: • All taxpayers are entitled to receive access to information with respect to their property. This includes access to sufficient Individual Property Data to satisfy themselves that their assessment is accurate and equitable (Assessment Act sections 3(1) and (8)); • Assessment roll information must be available for inspection at the office of the assessor (Assessment Act section 8);