A miscommunication involving an errant “e” could doom telecommunications giant Telus’s bid to appeal more than a dozen property assessments.
That’s “e” as in email address. “E” as in error.
Telus is heading to B.C. Supreme Court in the hopes of reversing the Property Assessment Appeal Board’s refusal to let the company proceed with challenges to the tax status of 18 property assessments despite missing a crucial filing deadline.
The mistake happened when a new employee included an extra “e” in the suffix of the email address greater.vancouver@bcassessment.ca.
According to court documents, the appeal board didn’t buy Telus’s argument that the failure to file could be attributed to “circumstances beyond its
