Shaw: Where persons may have some difficulties in adjusting to the new rates, there are established mechanisms to assess the burden and provide some relief.

The Finance Minister Audley Shaw has again sought to defend the adjustments in the property tax structure saying mechanisms are in place for people who wish to challenge the valuation.

The adjustments have seen some land owners paying up to 1,000 per cent increase.

It’s because the government is now calculating people’s property taxes on their 2013 valuations instead of the 2002 valuations it has always been using.

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