It’s been a long 4-year battle for a Thunder Bay man to get property taxes lowered on his mother’s Walker’s Lake home.

Keith Scott tells us after an arbitration hearing with the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation recently, he finally got the $8,000 bill lowered for a property worth $186,000.

“This isn’t a win for us, we’re not taking a victory lap.  We’ve got a reasonable reduction of up to $1,700, but it’s still a horrendous amount of tax to pay for a small, 12-hundred square foot home,” says Scott.

He compares that to $3.5-million Georgian Bay homes paying $6,800.  “If you believe you’ve been wronged, you’ve got to have all the facts and figures, you’ve got to put your head together, you’ve got to ask for other peoples’ interpretation of value.  But you can’t be afraid to take these people on.”

We have reached out to MPAC for comment.