Community Access Terminals (CATs) are available in Service BC centres. These terminals provide access to information on government programs and services, as well as electronic applications for a wide variety of government services. Service BC staff can assist the public with a brief overview of the use of the CATs.

BC Assessment evaluates and classifies real property (land) and improvements (buildings, machinery, etc.) for the purposes of real property taxation.

BC Assessment records are public and may be searched in any assessment office.

Service BC Centres provide computerized assessment search information to the public, Crown, Crown Agencies, and tax authorities. 

Service BC Centres:

• respond to telephone and general enquiries from the public.
• fax copies of any dispute to the appropriate court registry.

BC Hydro

BC Stats

BC Stats provides a variety of services ranging from producing monthly or quarterly reports with data tables and an article reporting on a current issue of relevance, to custom work provided on a fee-for-service basis.

Service BC Centres provide CATS access for customers to view and print BC Stats reports.

Application forms for Class "A" events (those expected to generate more than $20,000 in gross revenue) are available at Service BC Centres and online. Please allow eight to twelve weeks for processing an "A" licence.

Service BC Centres provide assistance for those wishing to apply for "B" and "D" gaming licences for local charitable events (bingo, ticket raffle, special occasion casino and wheel of fortune) where gross sales for all events in one year do not exceed $20,000.

D events cannot exceed $10000 gross/YR.

Service BC accepts payment and application, but does not approve/issue licence. Turn around time is 3 business days.

At least one staff member in each Service BC Centre is appointed as a Commissioner for Taking Affidavits.

The Ministry of Small Business and Revenue runs various consumer tax programs including hotel room tax, motor fuel tax, provincial sales tax, and tobacco tax.

For information regarding the BC Farmer Identity Cards for PST exemptions, see http://www.bcac.bc.ca/
bc_farmer_identity_card.htm

Service BC Centres provide forms for hotel room tax, registration, vendor registration, and remittance.  Offices also accept monthly remittances for sales tax and equipment/business sale and can assist with problems or inquiries.

Corporate Registry

The Corporate Registry allows business and society name searches,
company name searches, registrations, partnership/ proprietorship searches. The Corporate Registry provides the legal framework and files documents for the incorporation, registration, maintenance and dissolution of companies, societies and co-operatives active in British Columbia.

Forms to register a society or a partnership/proprietorship are available from your local Service BC Centre.  Various Service BC Centres stock Self-Counsel Press forms to register a limited or incorporated company. If, however, your local office does not sell Self-Counsel Press Publications, you will be able to obtain these forms from a stationary store. 

Service BC Centres can assist in the Reservation of the Business Names for Societies, Co-Operatives, Partnerships/Proprietorships, BC Corporations and Extraprovincial Companies and usually take two working days to finalize the transaction.

• respond to telephone and general enquiries from the public.
• provide the public with information packages on small claims court.
• provide statistical information to the nearest court administrator.
• fax copies of any dispute to the appropriate court registry.

Service BC Centres:

• provide computerized Crown land status information to the public
• when available, carry copies of lists of Crown land currently available to the public for purchase, lease, etc.
• If a published list is not available, staff will provide the public with contact addresses and telephone numbers for the land office managing the area of interest.

Service BC Centres provide front line driver's licence services in 29 locations throughout the province. For a list of locations, click here.

Services include Driver Written Testing, Vision Screening for all classes of driver’s licences, Licence issuance; Drivers Licence Road Sense Manuals and Brochures; Drivers Licence Abstracts, Address Changes; Snowmobile registrations, transfers; Issuance of Commercial Vehicle Inspection Program forms and decals; Forms and information on Vehicle Impoundments; Administrative Driving Prohibitions and suspensions; Accepts payments for traffic fines and Driver Premiums.