Understanding our farm-assessment comparison

2026-06-01

Correction, September 10, 2026. This post previously quoted about 53 parcels and a $645,000 annual difference, and described that difference as a subsidy paid by other property owners. Those historical model figures are superseded. The calculation does not establish actual taxes paid, revenue lost, or another owner's tax burden.

The current farm-assessment comparison uses the same matched-record definition as the island data page: Denman land parcels passing our farm-pattern screen, with both a current recorded assessment and a modeled value. Signed differences between total modeled value and total assessment are multiplied by a fixed 2025 residential rate, rounded per parcel and summed.

The screen uses ALR flags, parcel area and assessed land value within a farm-rate ceiling. It cannot confirm property classification. The value model uses sale-calibrated land coefficients blended with assessment-derived inputs, plus a building-value proxy; it is not independent of assessments and is not an appraisal.

Farm assessment is a lawful provincial program intended to support agriculture. This comparison does not recalculate budgets, tax-class rates, service areas or exemptions. The current figures, method and limitations are on the live analysis; the old figures should not be used as a current estimate or repeated as tax savings available to other owners.

Actual farm income is not established by this data. Nothing here is a finding about an individual owner's conduct. Report a correction.