File 2024-29, from the waiver request to the day I started over. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment rewrote my question and never decided my fee waiver BC Assessment rewr...

File 2024-29: the 98% question, and the fee that came back. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › I asked BC Assessment how many homeowners win their appeals. It sent a $736.49 bill When ...

One Assessment Act, 2 roads: homes and businesses at the Appeal Board. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment calls 0.9% proof of "fair and accurate." Who is in the 0...

The year BC Assessment told the public how many homeowners appealed. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment counted single detached homes in 2021. Why did it stop? BC Assessm...

File 2025-23, from request to release. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › 211 days and 2 rewrites: how long it took BC Assessment to explain "fair and accurate" It took BC Asse...

6 springs of the same number, in BC Assessment's own words. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › 98% in 2022, 99% in 2024, "fair and accurate" in 2025: how BC Assessment...

BC Assessment's own definition, from its own records. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › What BC Assessment's 99% "fair and accurate" claim actually measures BC Asses...

The reason given for rewriting my request, and what the search finally produced. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment said searching for its "fair and accurate" evi...

A review meant to release records ended with a second reason for keeping them back. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › After the Commissioner's review, BC Assessment withheld 56 m...

The survey question that says the most about how homeowners see the appeal system. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment asked appellants if it is independent of the Review ...

What the survey invitation promised, and what I asked for. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment told homeowners their answers would be shared "in aggregate." So why...

The section of the FOI Act at the centre of the inquiry, explained plainly. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › Can BC Assessment hide a survey as "advice"? What section 13(2) s...

The 1 page BC Assessment released after the Commissioner's review. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment's $250 survey prize email looked like a scam. Even the sur...

What the investigator found on October 22, 2026, and what I am still asking for. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › The Commissioner's investigator sided with BC Assessment. Why I...

The only fee I ever paid BC Assessment, and the 136 pages it bought. Home › The Record › The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner › The 99 Percent Files › BC Assessment charged me $30 for a homeowner survey, then blacked out every answ...