Last Friday, the appellants taking on the vacancy tax in the courts filed their statement of facts, which the Town must respond to by October 3, before this fall’s municipal election.
The appeal will be heard later in the fall.
The appellants’ grounds for appeal are two-fold:
- It’s a Municipal Power Grab: Canmore cannot create discriminatory property tax sub-classes while ignoring Municipal Government Act requirements regarding taxing property —period.
- It’s an Illegal Power Transfer: The powers of an assessor, to assign properties to subclasses, to inspect properties and to require the production of information cannot be illegally handed off to Canmore’s Chief Administrative Officer.
See the Factum Here: