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CABINET NOTES: The Commissioner of Inland Revenue Department (IRD) and a Tax Enforcement Officer made a visit to the Cabinet at the request of the Chairman.
They had been required to report to the Cabinet on abandoned buildings within the commercial sector of St. John’s City; the IRD presented photographs of more than 20 abandoned/unoccupied buildings within the area marked by the Vivian Richards Street, along Market Street, all of Newgate Street and across Independence Avenue.
Property taxes exceeding $1 million dollars are owed, and the buildings are an eyesore; they have become a place where rodents and rubbish are to be found.
The Legislature recently adopted a law that would allow the government to seek the permission of the Court, following Notice to the last-known owners; to remove the threat to safety and good sanitation which they pose to neighbouring properties and the City in general.
Failure to so act would allow the government to forcibly acquire the properties, to remove buildings, rubbish, rodents and unwanted vegetation from the sites and to dispose of the properties with any overage paid to the owner of record.
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About time! Some of those places have been abandoned for years.
$1 million in unpaid taxes? That’s wild.
How did it get to this point? Didn’t anyone flag these unpaid taxes earlier?
Honestly, I think there’s potential for urban renewal here if done right.
Irrespective of how the government plans to move forward as it relates to those properties i hope government ministers are not salivating at the prospect of adding any to their empire.
I know that we have a real estate company called government. However there is a thin and blurred line between opportunity and greed and corruption.