The New Brunswick government has introduced legislation to freeze property assessments for homeowners, landlords and businesses for one year while it works on a promised plan to reform the province's property tax system.

Finance Minister René Legacy  submitted what he called an Act Respecting Property Tax Affordability Measures for first reading Tuesday afternoon.  

The freeze is meant to buy the government time to make changes in the way nearly $1.8 billion in New Brunswick annual property tax r…