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Pre-authorized payment service for taxes on agenda NEIL CAMERON COURIER ISLANDER
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The city may move away from the time-consuming practice of dealing with post-dated cheques for taxes. City council was to decide last night on a staff recommendation that offer Campbell River property owners the ability to make monthly contributions to tax payments rather than paying in a lump sum. The new pre-authorized payment service would begin in August this year, with contributions earning interest toward 2015 tax payments. It’s nothing new and it is offered in other municipalities across the province. But new computer software now allows Campbell River residents to take part in the program too. “For many years, the city’s finance department has accepted post-dated cheques from taxpayers who wish to make tax payments in installments through the course of the year,” said City Finance Manager Myr-
iah Foort. “These have always been processed manually by staff and is quite time consuming. The city now has the computer software necessary to provide an automatic bank account withdrawal service that is commonly offered in many municipalities across the province, and is considered efficient for both the taxpayer and the local government,” Property owners would arrange for monthly payments to be automatically withdrawn from their bank account starting in August and ending in May. An annual tax notice would be mailed at the end of May each year showing the current year’s taxes due, less the total prepayments and interest earned on 10 pre-authorized installments. The balance owing would be withdrawn from the bank account on the tax due date in July. The city says this can all be done on-line so taxpayers will not have to travel to city hall if they choose not to. See TAXES page 2.
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