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The following submission was made by Nancy Beach.
After dealing with BC assessment for 17 years or more, in regard to my small farm on Salt Spring Island, I have come to the conclusion that:
- Farm assessments should be administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, not the Ministry of Housing.
- The system for assessing farm status needs to be overhauled. It should not be lumped in with assessing the values of residential properties.
- Farmers should be given adequate time to present and debate their cases.
- More people who care about farms should sit on the board of the Property Assessment Appeal Board (PAAB), and the panel of the Property Assessment Review Panel (PARP).’
- PARP plan panel members making decisions concerning farms should be well educated about the farm regulations number. Pabst should not charge for their services.
- BC Farmers need an organization to represent them, represent themselves and help defend their interests before the B. C. Assessment when necessary.
