Well, Well, Well....No Free Water

Tuesday, November 01, 2005 09:45 AM

If you have wondered just how the province would be able to tax you on your water well at home, read on.

Here are the new regulations.

Water wells must be drilled by qualified drillers.

Pumps must be installed by qualified installers.

Well drillers and installers must register with the provincial government.

A surface seal must be installed, a secure well cap must be in place.

A minimum clearance of 1 foot from well head to ground.

And finally, a well identification tag to be located on the well.

Existing well owners have until October 31-2007 to comply.

Bingo.

Now follow the tracks, you need a well driller who is registered. He will need to advise the government that he has drilled a well, the installer of the pump must be registered with the government that leaves yet a further trail and now that little identification tag finishes it off perfectly. You are registered, and so if you want to have a well in your back yard you will, I predict, be sending in a fee for a license to take water out of the ground.

The government has been toying with the idea for some time on how to get that added tax revenue. Some brilliant little bureaucrat has now been able to come up with a system.

It may have cost you several thousand dollars to get that well in operation, but the government will now have the capacity to get its pound of flesh every single year.

I’m Meisner and that’s one mans opinion.

Previous Story - Next Story

Email |

Print |

Facebook |

Twitter |

Digg |

Del.icio.us

Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 09:45 AM in Views by Ben Meisner

Return to Home

Comments

Posted by: Don Mackenzie on November 1 2005 11:39 AM

tHE WELL ON THE RANCH HAS BEEN HERE, FOR 50 YEARS.....it has a wooden lid on it.has worked for 50 years,BEFORE POWER GOT HERE.so the Goverment can go to hE-- before I register the well.

Posted by: Chester on November 1 2005 8:14 PM

When is enough, enough? Where does it finally end? When do we finally say, no more?

Just who is it anyway that is continually milking, bilking and draining us?

I've learned that everyone must provide something of value for the pay they receive. Just what is it, that these people, employed by government, provide of value to justify their pay?

If there was any one thing that is designed to thwart intiative, it's our government and the burdens they impose on us.

Why do we allow them to continue to erode our rights and freedoms?

We need to begin using the salami method of getting control back of our land. One slice at a time. Who's up to the challenge? Chester

Posted by: acrider54 on November 2 2005 6:27 AM

There will never be an end to taxes or new ways of taking your money from you. Remember....income tax was a temporary war measure tax....GST was a temporary tax to pay down the debt....Toll on the Coquhalla was a temporary toll until the costs were paid off. There's more.....

Posted by: duffer on November 3 2005 9:47 AM

This is another reason why we have to cut the civil service jobs even more. The only thing a lot of these people do is try to find more and more ways to pay their own salaries. It just keeps spiralling out of control.

Posted by: Opatcho on November 3 2005 10:04 AM

Maybe if we stopped looking for money from senior governments we could be free from additional taxing. But a lot of people seem to think that when money for infastructure projects comes from a senior governments its not related to the taxes we pay. If we showed a little respnsibility on how our money is spent in the community there would fewer tax dollars needed and thats from every level of government.

Posted by: fedup on November 3 2005 2:17 PM

I was looking to buy a house this fall and one of the places I looked at was owned by an old German couple nice folks anyway they moved to Canada many years ago because it was a free country where a working man could do good for himself and his family.They are now of the opinion we are not much unlike the place they left or at least starting in that direction.