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provincial service Crown corporation, BC Assessment (BCA) is
responsible for producing independent, uniform and eficient
property assessments on an annual basis, which are used to
determine the distribution of property taxes among property
owners.
BC Assessment maintains a provincial database of over 1.95
million properties worth a combined total of $1.14 trillion.
Since 1974, BC Assessment has played an essential role in
providing property owners and local governments with accurate information
for the fair distribution of property taxes that fund important local services
used everyday in communities all over the province.
Nearly $6.7 billion in property tax revenue is generated each year across
British Columbia to help inance local government services and the K to 12
school system. With a 2014 total operating budget of $88.6 million, the Crown
corporation provides nearly two million customers with assessment and other
property information services.
Today, BC Assessment is also widely recognized as one of the world's leading
organizations on best practices and innovation for property assessment.
"BC Assessment values properties, partnerships and innovation," says BC
Assessment board chair Judy Rogers. "The public puts their trust in us to assess
their properties based on information that is current, reliable and accessible."
BC Assessment's success has been achieved as a result of ongoing
From top: BC Assessment efficiently uses
high-resolution street-front photos taken from
specialized vehicles to rapidly update property
data; BC Assessment invests heavily in employee
learning. Appraisers are professionally accredited
through either the Appraisal Institute of Canada or
the Real Estate Institute of BC.
BC Assessment celebrates 40 years of value to B.C.
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