Tax Shift

• Provincial budget will increase Calgary property taxes: report

  Calgary homeowners face significant increases in property taxes resulting from the new provincial budget, Calgary City Council heard Monday.

  Politics

  Mar 2, 2020
  
• Calgary councillors call on Alberta government to reform property tax assessments

  Four Calgary councillors are calling on the mayor to write a letter to Premier Jason Kenney to create a special task force on property tax assessment.

  Politics

  Jan 27, 2020
  
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• Transportation, transit the focus of Calgary council as 2020 budget talks continue

  Calgary councillors considered transit options Wednesday, including increasing the cost of a low-income monthly pass and contracting out services.

  Money

  Nov 27, 2019
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• ‘I’m going to be pretty livid’: Calgary councillor urges city council to quit avoiding the tax shift problem

  Calgary city council will hear from citizens at a public hearing on Monday as it prepares to tackle the 2020 budget and the tax shift problem.

  Economy

  Nov 24, 2019
• Number of options could shift tax burden in Calgary to homeowners from businesses

  Calgary city council will have a bucket full of numbers to digest and ruminate over as it prepares to tackle the 2020 budget and the thorny issue of the tax shift problem.

  Politics

  Oct 8, 2019
• Calgary city council votes in favour of $60M budget cut and $70M in tax rebates

  Calgary city council voted unanimously to pass a 10 per cent commercial property tax cut on Monday. But no one is certain where the budget cuts will come from to help pay for it.

  Money

  Jun 10, 2019
• Calgary mayor says latest tax relief plan that includes $60M in cuts goes ‘too hard’

  A new plan aimed at reducing Calgary business taxes goes to council Monday morning but it will come at a big cost that Calgary's mayor says goes "too fast for marginal improvements."

  Politics

  Jun 9, 2019
• New notice of motion to help Calgary business owners to be debated Monday

  "I think its immediate, meaningful impact. It will cut services, people will lose there jobs, its going to be difficult.  But we need to do it in these times right now and we also need the courage to do it and move forward," Ward 1 Councillor Ward Sutherland said.

  Canada

  Jun 7, 2019
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• Calgary council to look at temporary business tax solution Monday

  Calgary's city council will be putting aside time Monday morning to deal with the issue of skyrocketing property taxes for businesses, including a plan that will see non-residential ratepayers pay roughly the same amount of tax they did in 2018.

  Politics

  Jun 4, 2019
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• Spike in property tax bills shocks Calgary business owners

  "This is a terrible situation. We should have addressed this years ago."

  Economy

  May 28, 2019