In addition to asking city officials to come up with $60 million in savings, Calgary council members plan to ask the province to match those funds by forgoing $60 million of tax revenue from Calgary. The discussion about Calgary’s property tax problems is turning into a brewing fight between Calgary’s municipal politicians and the new provincial government. The mayor is currently in Quebec City with nine city councillors for the annual Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference. Total city spending over the last four years has increased by 2 per cent less than inflation and population growth, he added. We hope this will extend to the effects of property tax as well.” The sole city councillor left out of the Calgary tax-shift proposal, Jeromy Farkas, also issued his own suggestions for dealing with the property tax shift on Thursday.

Source: thestar May 31, 2019 22:30 UTC