[Rothesay Mayor Bill Bishop---File Photo]
With budget deliberations already underway around the Province, there will be some hard number crunching in municipalities in the coming weeks. This after the Province announced municipalities lower their tax rates including Rothesay by ten cents. Mayor Bill Bishop tells CHSJ News, the biggest complaint he hears from home-owners is the increase year after year on property assessments:
Bishop adds in the past when tax-payers got an increase on their bill, municipalities would say it is because of the assessments. Now the Province is looking to turn the table by saying if taxes go up, it is the municipality that did so.
