Nanaimo’s major shopping centres are paying the largest tax bills, the city’s annual municipal report shows.
Four Nanaimo shopping malls were among the highest taxpayers in the Harbour City in 2015.
The city’s annual municipal report, containing financial statistics to strategic progress, shows Woodgrove Centre had the biggest tax bill last year at $4.8 million, up from $4.6 million in 2014.
Nanaimo North Town Centre is second on the list, but less than half of the north-end shopping mall, with taxes of $2.3 million, while Country Club Centre moved up the list as the fifth-highest taxpayer in 2014 to the third last year at $1.6 million.
Harmac, once the highest taxpayer in the city, is now in fourth place at $1.5 million, followed by First Capital Corporation’s Port Place and Vancouver Island Conference Centre with $1 million.