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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Property taxes in Calgary are dirt cheap, sorry it clashes with your reality, but its true. The city is well managed, essentially free of real corruption and the government is responsive to the citizens.
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Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin
I agree that Calgary is a fantastic place to live and property taxes are low relative to many other jurisdictions. However, there is so much room for improvement. They do a lot of things wrong and waste a lot of money. Property taxes could be even lower.
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Cheap/lower compared to where?
Calgary's property taxes are higher than property taxes for an equivalently priced house in Toronto and Vancouver (and Vancouver suburbs such as Burnaby and Richmond). A $900,000 residential assessment in Calgary will run you just north of $6,700. Same priced house is ~$5,400 in Toronto, and ~$2,600 in Vancouver (but hey, cheaper than Edmonton where that will set you back ~$8,400).
Obviously, there are numerous other factors that go into the cost of home ownership and taxes (Alberta's absence of a land transfer tax, the overall average house prices in jurisdictions generally leading to higher mill rates the lower the average price, etc.) On a pure question of whether property taxes themselves are dirt cheap, it's not wholly accurate to say that if we are being compared to other major cities in Canada.