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Helping Ease the Tax Burden for Evacuated Wheatley Residents

Photo courtesy of the municipality of Chatham-Kent.

Municipal council is looking to see what can be done to give evacuated Wheatley residents a bit of a financial break.

At tonight’s Chatham-Kent council planning meeting being held online, council will discuss passing a bylaw crediting the municipal taxes of Wheatley homes and businesses that have been impacted by the long-term evacuation order in Wheatley.

The credit would be for just over 40% of the 2021 taxation year.

A large section of Wheatley’s downtown has been evacuated since the August 26th explosion which destroyed two buildings and sent seven people to hospital.