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Overdue water bills to be added to property taxes

Nearly 750 water utility customers have been sent letters from the City of Thompson advising them that if their outstanding accounts are not paid off the amounts owing will be transferred to property taxes.

Nearly 750 water utility customers have been sent letters from the City of Thompson advising them that if their outstanding accounts are not paid off the amounts owing will be transferred to property taxes.

The letters requested payment by May 15, according to a May 25 memo to mayor and council from finance project specialist Carol Taylor which noted that letters went to anyone with unpaid invoices from September 2014 or earlier, all inactive accounts and all tenants with unpaid balances from before last September. Property owners who have been making monthly payments or who owe under $100 were not sent letters.

The 748 customers who did receive letters owe a cumulative total of $487,118.27 and represent about 15 per cent of the total number of private dwellings in Thompson – there were 4,741 in 2011 according to census figures.

The outstanding amounts range from a low of $10.04 to a high of $27,361.98. One-hundred-and-fifteen of the outstanding accounts have balances of less than $100. There are 530 overdue accounts with balances of between $100 and $999 while 103 outstanding accounts have more than $1,000 owing. Of these, 83 owe between $1,000 and $2,000. There is one other account with more than $10,000 owing, at a total of $18,128.08.

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