3.8 percent more on your municipal tax bill a possibility this year

In what seems to be an annual ritual now, the City of Prince Rupert is once again looking at a slight increase to property taxes this spring.

At an open house on Wednesday, the City outlined some of the challenges it faces these days with a declining tax base to collect taxes from and a less than robut local business and industrial climate which continues to put most of the tax pressure on that residential base…

(from  the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 9835038579 )-