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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Any news on the Charter. I know the province kyboshed it - has Nenshi indicated if they might submit another modified application.
Province is really pi$$ing me off. They take 1/2 of all property taxes, they wont give the city more money for infrastructure, and now they wont give the city extra taxing powers for gasoline, restraunts, hotels, etc.
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Not kyboshed - but they did indicate they don't want to cede new taxing powers. Mayor is actually not asking for a net increase in anyone's taxes, only that what each order of government gets is rebalanced. City gets 8 cents of your total tax dollar, province and Feds get 92 cents. He's saying - what if, for example, they only got 90 cents and municipalities got 10 in order to meet demands. City also wants to reduce reliance on property tax - too inflexible and regressive.