Starting today and into next week – British Columbia property owners will receive their 2025 Property
Assessments in the mail from the BC Assessment Authority, an independent provincial crown agency whose sole task is to evaluate the value of property in British Columbia for the purposes of taxation for local governments’ across BC as well as for the Provincial Government
You can now look up your property assessment online on the BC Assessment Authority’s website at
Background from North-Central BC -- https://info.bcassessment.ca/news/Pages/North-Central-BC-2025-
For municipalities in our Cariboo-Chilcotin Region (residential properties/typically assessed values)
100 Mile House – up 4%
Williams Lake – up 10%
Quesnel – up 3%
Wells – up 10%
Some quick links from BC Assessment:
1) Understanding the Property Assessment Process -- https://info.bcassessment.ca/Services-
2) Property Assessment/Local Property Taxation -- https://info.bcassessment.ca/Services-products/your-
3) Appealing your Property Assessment (deadline to file an appeal is January 31st, 2025) --
As referenced above, local governments in BC use the Property Assessment information in order to decide local taxes for the year.
Currently – all Cariboo-Chilcotin local governments are in the middle of determining 2025 Budgets.
Information on their budget process and public input:
1) District of Wells -- https://www.wells.ca/
2) City of Quesnel -- https://www.quesnel.ca/municipal-services/taxes-utilities/property-taxes
3) City of Williams Lake -- https://www.williamslake.ca/255/Developing-2025-Budget
4) District of 100 Mile House -- http://100milehouse.com/district-services/property-taxes-assessment
5) Cariboo Regional District -- https://www.cariboord.ca/en/regional-government/budget-and-business-
District of Wells, City of Quesnel, City of Williams Lake and the District of 100 Mile House mails property tax notices to property owners directly while those in rural, unincorporated communities within the Cariboo Regional District receive their property tax notices from the Provincial Government directly (Provincial Surveyor of Taxes)
For those in rural areas – the Provincial Government has a website for rural property taxation at
If you wish to apply to defer your property taxes – go to
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-
taxes/annual-property-tax/property-tax-deferment-program
I STRONGLY recommend you have discussions with BC Assessment if you don't agree with your 2025
Property Assessment Notice as soon as practical as the deadline to file an appeal is January 31st, 2025.
Their phone number is 1-866-825-8322. You can look up your own property assessment details online (you
will need the exact property address or PID (Property IDentifier) Number on your Property Assessment
Notice) at http://www.bcassessment.ca while you can research the trends for your own property in the last
number of years by registering for a BC Assessment Authority account at
I will, as I do annually, be monitoring property assessments in my own Electoral Area as well as seeing how
this impacts on the Cariboo Regional District’s 2025 Budget as well as the setting of Rural Property Taxation
from the Province (Rural Tax, Rural Police Tax and School Tax) -- that is set by BC Cabinet Order usually in
late April to early May and then seeing what the final result is -- by end of April 2025.
Finally – City of Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart writes to his constituents about the relationship between
Property Assessment and Annual Property Taxation. Although it is written with the 161 BC Municipalities in
mind (including the District of Wells, the City of Quesnel, the City of Williams Lake and the District of 100
Mile House), the principles he outlines are equally applicable to the 27 Regional Districts’ in BC. It is a 4-5
min read but a worthy one – read at
and I publicly thank him for allowing me to share this information with you
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