Farm Status Appeal – Property Assessment Review Panel (PARP)

BC assessment does not send out farm status approval notices. You will need to check your assessment notice when you receive it around the first week of January to verify if your land has farm classification. If you do not receive your Assessment Notice by January 10th, we recommend you contact your local assessment office to request a reprint notice.

Check the land value portion of your assessment to confirm if the value are legislated farm rates. Farm rates are significantly lower than market value.

You can also find your property assessment on BC Assessment’s website. The images below are from a property that has approval for Farm Classification. If your property has the orange coloured information icon, hover over it with your mouse to read the farmland message.

If your property did not receive approval for Farm Classification, you have three options:

1. Appeal the assessment based on classification. You must submit your farm class appeal no later than January 31st.
2. Find out why your farm application was denied, correct the issue and reapply for 2024.
3. Hire Farm Assessment Consultancy as your farm agent. We will closely review your farm application and operation to determine if an appeal will be successful. 

Why Hire Us?

• You get the expertise of a former BC Assessment Appraiser who has worked on thousands of assessment appeals over 22 years.
• We will review your farm application for weaknesses and submit an updated farm application package to support the farm class. 
• We review every appeal angle, including farm classification, market value, and equity.
• Every farm appeal will have a strategic plan for success.
• We won’t proceed with an appeal that zero chance of obtaining farm status for the current Assessment.

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