In 1974, the Government of British Columbia created BC Assessment (BCA) as a Crown Corporation, funded primarily through a property tax levy, with the legislated mandate to provide “assessments that are uniform in the whole of the province” in accordance with the Assessment Act. Since its inception, BCA has provided uniform, fair and independent property assessments to the people of British Columbia.
Data Advice is a data product providing customers with property assessment information. It was originally created in 1976 to provide taxing authorities the data they required to perform their taxation duties. Today the product is still used by taxing authorities, First Nations governments, Provincial Governments and enterprise customers to perform various business functions.
The Data Advice data is available as both an annual full-roll XML file plus weekly XML updates, and as full-roll theme-based CSV files (complete (full roll) files, produced weekly). The themes currently available are:
- general description of individual properties
- street addresses of individual properties
- legal descriptions of individual properties
- sales history of individual properties
- land characteristics of individual properties
- general assessed value for property and improvements
Purpose
The data serves a variety of purposes - including valuation, statistical reporting, and administration - in fulfillment of BCA's statutory obligations. It is important that the data made available not be misconstrued as satisfying purposes other than those intended. It is recommended that close liaison be maintained with the local BCA Office regarding use and interpretation of the data.
Data Quality
BCA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information which is not required to be reported under the Assessment Act.
Additional documentation
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