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ARTICLES (Op Ed’s Below)

BC’s local communities seeking BC Assessment improvements were snubbed by Finance Ministry

BC’s local communities seeking BC Assessment improvements were snubbed by Finance Ministry (Derek Holloway) | City Hall Watch

How undervaluation of Vancouver sites could cost millions in property taxes June 2025

How undervaluation of Vancouver sites could cost millions | Financial Post

Assessed value of former Dunsmuir Hotel tripled after public complaint May 2025

Assessed value of former Dunsmuir Hotel tripled after public complaint - BC | Globalnews.ca

Are commercial landlords paying their fair share? FEB 2025

Are commercial landlords paying their fair share? - The Globe and Mail

Letter: Commercial property assessments out of whack- SEPT 2024

Letter: Commercial property assessments out of whack - Cowichan Valley Citizen

Retired assessor shines light on undervalued commercial properties- Okanagan- Feb 2024

Retired assessor shines light on undervalued commercial properties | News | kelownadailycourier.ca

Retired appraiser waging fight against 'underassessed' commercial, industrial properties - AUG 2024 Lake Cowichan Gazette

https://www.lakecowichangazette.com/home/retired-appraiser-waging-fight-against-underassessed-commercial-industrial-properties-7395497

UNDER-ASSESSING LARGER INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT PROPERTIES IN THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

https://globalnews.ca/news/10303954/district-of-squamish-bc-assessment-overhaul/

Is BC Assessment Letting Businesses Dodge Property Taxes? March 2023 Andrew Macleod The Tyee

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/17/BC-Assessment-Letting-Businesses-Dodge-Property-Taxes/

It Pays to Pollute In BC. Pollution reduces property value — and property taxes. That creates an incentive to slow brownfield remediation, experts say.- JAN 2022 MICHELLE GAMAGE The tyee

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/01/18/It-Pays-To-Pollute-In-BC/

Bracing for the hits: How big landowners are cutting their property taxes, and how it affects your municipality and you- JAN 2022 LORI CULBERT & DAN FUMANO VANCOUVER SUN

https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/risk-to-roll-more-big-property-owners-fight-taxes-forcing-small-land-owners-to-pay-more

Veteran assessor says BC ASSESSMENT has been flying blind- Jan 2019 Andrew Duffy TIMES COLONIST

https://www.timescolonist.com/real-estate/process-for-commercial-property-assessments-in-b-c-lacks-teeth-critics-1.23602852

B.C. has lost millions to undervalued commercial properties- Jan 2019 KERRY GOLD GLOBE & MAIL

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-bc-has-lost-millions-to-under-assessed-commercial-properties-former/

SEASPAN- Owner of Site that’s Contaminated Burrard Inlet for Years Now Wants a Tax Break- SEPT 2019 MICHELLE GAMAGE THE TYEE

https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/05/Burrard-Inlet-Site-Wants-Tax-Break/

tax shift could be entirely unnecessary if large industrial-commercial-investment properties were properly assessed each year- JAN 2019 Elizabeth Murphy Business IN Vancouver

https://biv.com/article/2019/01/municipal-taxes-vancouver-good-bad-and-ugly

Process for commercial property assessments in B.C. lacks teeth- JAN 2019 ANDREW DUFFY TIMES COLONIST

https://www.timescolonist.com/real-estate/process-for-commercial-property-assessments-in-b-c-lacks-teeth-critics-1.23602852

OPINION EDITORIALS- DEREK HOLLOWAY

Skyrocketing 2025 BC property tax notices now arriving (See Comments Section ALSO)

Skyrocketing 2025 BC property tax notices now arriving (Derek Holloway) | CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions

COVID-19 magnifies B.C.’s property assessment woes- Western Investor / Business In Vancouver

Derek HollowayJune 13, 2020

Why small B.C. commercial property owners should appeal their 2020 assessments- GLACIER COMMUNITY MEDIA

Derek HollowayJanuary 20, 2020

Assessment Process Unfair to Homeowners, Small Business- VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST

Feb 2019

Derek HollowayJanuary 2, 2020

How Big Property Owners are Manipulating B.C. Assessment’s Appeals Process- Glacier Community Media

July 2019

Derek HollowayJuly 8, 2019