On March 8, 2007, Shelfspace happily announced that Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon made public his intention to get rid of the Parking Tax.  Shelfspace lobbed this property tax disguised as a parking site tax since 1992, and as one of the founding members of the Park the Tax Coalition.  With the support of some active and vocal members, we were happy to have won this fight on behalf of retailers in the GVRD.

The Parking Tax posed a serious challenge for retailers already paying high levels of property tax.  This tax also represented a growing imbalance between the taxation burdens placed on residential versus commercial taxpayers with commercial taxpayers paying four to five times more tax.

Shelfspace was extremely pleased that the Provincial Government showed leadership by getting rid of this unfair and inequitable tax.  Thank you again for lending your voice and showing your support in helping us to lobby this issue over the number of years that this issue was active.