Is the imposition of tax rates for Class Q under Bylaw No. 279 of the City of Vancouver's Tax Billing Notice issue to Brinkworthy unreasonable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Brinkworthy Properties Ltd. v North Salt Spring Waterworks District, 2017 BCSC 951 (CanLII):
Accordingly I find the imposition of the tax rates for Class Q as set out in Bylaw No. 279 and the 2017 Tax Billing Notice issue to Brinkworthy to be unreasonable and set aside the imposition of those rates on the basis that the tax rates set out in the bylaw do not meet the test of transparency and may well have been based on incorrect and improper assumptions. As stated by this court in Pucci v. North Vancouver (City), 2010 BCSC 743 at para 87:
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