This White Paper presents the results and recommendations of Metro Vancouver’s Farm Property Tax Review. The Review was undertaken to identify tax policies that can be used as a lever to encourage farming or discourage non-farm land uses within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in the Metro Vancouver region. The research and analysis conducted during this review considered whether existing farm property tax policies, enacted to serve the public interest, still provide the nancial incentives to maintain the region’s ALR for farming, and if not, what could be done about it.
