Dear Editor:
Tired of Christy Clark's smiling face? Well, here's a reason you should be.I discovered today that the basic grant for city taxes or threshold in 2013 was $1,295,000. This year's 2014 threshold has been reduced to $1,100,000. That means that if your property is valued at $1,214,000 you do not qualify, My assessed value just so happens to have been reduced to $1,214,000 so I do not qualify. Last year I received the total grant, this year nothing.
I wonder how many other homeowners will fall into this $1,214,000 range? On the North Shore it's probably the majority.Should be interesting to find out. So that's how the Christy Clark government is going to balance the budget, not from brilliant budget manipulation, but off the backs of thousands of homeowners who are going to pay on July 2 and don't realize it yet.
Howard Whishaw
West Vancouver
