Vancouver’s cannabis store licences to cost 331 times more than Kimberley’s

By Glen Korstrom / Business in Vancouver
Wide discrepancy in municipal business licence fees could influence store location decisions

With the second legal, privately owned cannabis store in B.C. newly open, the trend so far has been for stores to be approved in communities that charge negligible municipal business licence fees. Both of those stores are in the southeastern B.C. community of Kimberley, where the municipal business licence fee for cannabis retailers is $100 – a sharp contrast to the $33,097 business licence fee that the City of Vancouver plans to charge cannabis retail entrepreneurs for each store in 2019.…

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December 10, 2018

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