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MAY 1 2 1974

Mayor and Council May 9th, 1975

L.D. Pollock
City Administrator

Re: Installment Collection of Taxes

Alderman Mabbett has requsted that the matter of instalment collection of
taxes be placed on the Agenda for discussion with a view to preparing a
resolution to the U.B.C.M. Convention to try and introduce more appropriate
legislation in this regard.

Attached is a copy of the current Section of the Municipal Act and you will
note that although it provides for instalment collection, Clause 6 states
that any person can deliver to the Collector, a request in writing for
exemption and they are therefore exempt from the By-law.

It is Alderman Mabbett's feeling that this provision should be deleted,
therefore bringing everyone under a system of instalment payments should
the jCouncil pass the necessary By-law under this particular section.
Although this Section has been in effect for some time it has not been
successfully used by Municipalities due to the fact that it requires a
considerable amount of organization to set up a monthly billing system
and the municipality cannot be sure that taxpayers will take advantage
of the system.

The deletion of Section 6 and 7 will accomplish what Alderman Mabbett
wishes. No doubt he will want to comment further on this item.

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L.D. Pollock

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