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Mayor Al McDonald says the burghal is analytic assured it has set abreast acceptable funds to awning any ample acreage appraisal address losses.
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Big-box chains and added retailers in Ontario accept approved to accept their acreage valuations bargain through appeals to the Municipal Acreage Appraisal Corporation (MPAC), consistent in ample settlements for a cardinal of communities, including Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay.
The Soo has been ordered to acquittance about $1.24 actor to Canadian Tire and Home Depot as a aftereffect of appraisal address settlements activity aback several years.
And, in Thunder Bay, appeals accept resulted in the burghal attributable $2.1 actor in tax refunds.
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But McDonald said North Bay is “comfortable” it has abundant funds set abreast to awning any address settlements the burghal may face.
He said about $600,000 has been appropriate in a assets armamentarium for ample tax address settlements, while added funds are accessible for cases involving abate properties.
“That doesn't beggarly there aren't risks,” he said, acquainted the burghal can't actually adumbrate how abounding appeals will be settled, nor the outcomes.
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McDonald, however, said North Bay is advised to be at the beginning of assessment-based management.
“We are an alive actor in all appeals,” he said, acquainted the burghal will from time to time appoint a third-party advocate to advice action an address and will accomplice with added municipalities adverse the aforementioned appellants. “We're at the table and a allotment of the chat to assure the interests of the city.”
Appeals by big-box food and added retailers accept been accepted in contempo years. And burghal agents accept appear that North Bay has absent some cogent bartering tax acquirement as a aftereffect acknowledged appeals by ample players aural the community.
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Part of the altercation for lower bazaar ethics is that the barrio are difficult to advertise already the banker moves out and that they tend to sit abandoned for continued periods.
McDonald said tax appeals are an advancing affair due the abeyant appulse on the city's account . But, he reiterated, the burghal has taken a proactive approach.
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