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By Justin Goulet

Council passes electronic billing bylaw for assessment and taxation

Sep 22, 2020 | 11:17 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Lethbridge City Council has passed a bylaw which details how the Assessment and Taxation department provides the electronic transfer of documents to the public.

The Electronic Transmission of Documents for Assessment and Taxation bylaw establishes a formal, secure and transparent process on how the department collects and uses a taxpayer’s personal information.

A property owner can create an account on MyCity and register their property using their roll number and the secure, unique to them access code on their Assessment and Tax Notices.

Their email and information is used for Assessment and Taxation notification purposes.

The city says if a property owner chooses so, they can also use their account for permits, which includes inspection results, permit service reports and other documents related to permitting.

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All notices generated create an archived copy that is easy to retrieve and shows what was sent and by who. As of now, the city can only send tax notices via email.

“We are working towards developing technology to email the assessment notices and other Assessment and Taxation documents in the future,” the city stated in a release.

In 2018, the Tax department e-billed tax notices for the first time with 110 e-bills being sent out. The next year, 729 were e-billed and this year, the city has almost doubled that amount to 1,424.