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Kenneth, the same thing is true of property taxes up here too.
I have a neighbour at the lake who bought a "kit" home as a cottage a few years back, he bought it because he saw one just like it being built a few miles down the road that we are at the far end of. My neighbours land and is significantly smaller (0.5 acre vs 10 acres), is not on a publicly maintained stretch of road, we all chip in to do it out-of-pocket, we have no garbage pick up, no school bus at the end of the driveway, it stops 5 miles south of us. Yet my neighbour pays more than 4 times the taxes of the guy down the road who has all the land and services.
Why? Because my neighbour looks out his front window at a lake instead of a forest.
Go figure.
Best of luck.
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In our case it 'used to be' that you had higher assessments for waterfront, not for views, but then a sharp lawyer (there are some) realized that in most cases there is a 66' shore road allowance around most lakes, so most people DIDN'T HAVE waterfront property, they were across an imaginary road from it. Many people won an appeal based on this so they changed it.
Now people do things like appealling their assessmsnt based on an eyesore like a cell phone tower with a blinking red light within sight of their lands.  .
Up here you can actually get a discount on your taxes for digging a pond, two discounts in some cases. Since all "navigable waters" in Canada are public, they can't tax you on it. So, if you owned a 500 acre property, and 400 of it was a lake, you would only pay taxes on 100 acres of what you "owned". Likewise with a pond, if you have a 20 acre parcel, with a 5 acre pond, you only pay taxes on 15 acres of land. If your pond is near the street, like mine is, and you sign an agreement with the municipality, like I have, that in the case of a fire you will allow the fire dept. to use your pond as a source of water for fire-fighting, they give you a small discount also.
This in my mind is dumb though, the fire dept. should have the automatic right to enter your property and pump your pond in the case of an emergency, subject only to the liability for thier actions as far as damage, etc.
Best of luck.
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