Your Mail call this week brings a tax call from the City of Prince Rupert

A trip to the  mail box this week for Prince Rupert home and business owners will put them on the clock when it come to the annual call for  taxation revenue for the utilities delivered by the City of Prince Rupert.

As the notice advises there was a rate increase put into effect for 2019 as of January 1st of this year, with the Deadline for payments this year noted as March  29, 2019.

There is a ten percent discount available for those who make payment before that date.

If the latest numbers for the home office of the North Coast Review are an indication, the average increase for residents in 2019 will look as follows:

Water        14 dollars plus
Sewer        14 dollars plus
Garbage    12 dollars plus


The average total increase for property owners for 2019 would be in the range of just under 40 dollars, the same increase for the most part as found last year.

This years utility bill arrives following a lengthy Boil Water Notice and ongoing Water Quality Advisory, which makes that 14 dollar water charge stand out a little more than the other utilities as residents await further information from City Council as to the plan ahead for their household water service.

Prince Rupert residents have seen consistent increases to their utility bills in recent years, a look back at some of that history can be reviewed below:

2018 -- March 30th the deadline for payment, as utilities bills hit the mail for Prince Rupert Residents
2017 -- Payment's Due! As city's utility bills arrive with March deadline
2016 -- City's first wave of taxation collection now underway
2015 -- City Service and Utility bills begin to drop into home owners mailboxes

Should you have questions related to the 2019 Utilities taxes you can contact City Hall at 250-627-0964.

The Utilities notice is the first of two tax regimens that the City has in the community, the next tax notice that will arrive in your mailbox comes in the late Spring, when the City of Prince Rupert mails out their property tax notices for the year.

What level of increase, if any to be assessed, will be determined later this year as City Council begins its Budget Discussion consultation period.

For more items related to taxation in Prince Rupert see our archive page here.

A wider overview of municipal issues is available from our Council Discussion page.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.