MF YYC Politics - there, I mega did it

[FLAMESRULE]

Jesus...up 51%!?!?! Ours went up 4.6%, in West Hillhurst.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Up 51%. Not a misprint.

Ouch,

Were you at least previously getting a deal and this put you back to marketing value or did a few more valuable house sell and skew everything? My house is asessend about 25k below what it would have sold for in July.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Up 51%. Not a misprint.

Did you buy the house within the last year or so? That happened to me when we bought a number of years ago.

[Jimmy Stang]

My assessed value increased by about 4.8%, and my taxes will increase by 2.71%.

I feared higher due to the tax shift, the market, etc. Nobody likes a tax increase, so while I wouldn't say that I am "pleased", it is more like a shoulder shrug and a slightly dismissive expression.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by Slava

Did you buy the house within the last year or so? That happened to me when we bought a number of years ago.

The same happened to me many years ago on our second assessment after building. I can't recall if the first assessment was a prorated amount because the house hadn't been fully built for a full year and/or it wasn't fully built at the time of assessment.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Up 51%. Not a misprint.

Was your house new last year? If so, you probably got a lucky break last year paying lower taxes. I had the same thing happen when I first bought my townhouse. I think i paid 2/3rds what I should have been paying during my first full year with the house.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Slava

Did you buy the house within the last year or so? That happened to me when we bought a number of years ago.

I moved in September 22 so it explains the large property value increases all around me.

[Bigtime]

Up 6.3% for myself.

[Bigtime]

City council gets automatic 2.41% salary increase for 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...2024-1.7075018

If Council reads the room correctly they should move to freeze this increase. But based on Penner's quotes in the article I have my doubts.

[Slava]

Of course Penner’s in favour

[Jimmy Stang]

Give themselves raises > people get mad > make it automatic based on the wage index > people get mad anyway if they don't refuse it.

So we never really took it out of their hands, did we?

[timun]

Sigh, every year city council gets this raise tied directly to the average earnings of Albertans, and every year people bitch about it. I think it's far and away the most equitable way of doing it.

The CBC article tries to tie this to property taxes, which is total nonsense. If taking the independently determined, indexed raise is not appropriate in a year where property taxes go up, the corollary is councillors deserve huge raises for cutting taxes. I'm sure a lot of the electorate believe this, which is ####ed...

[Bigtime]

I totally understand how this works, but this year the optics are just horrible imo. It would be prudent to take the freeze.

But to be my own counterpoint, the jury is hardly out on this council with the majority of the public. Why not just take the increase at this point?

[puckedoff]

The property assessments in my neighbourhood are way out of whack. At least $100K above what anyone would pay for any of the houses on my block. Dilapidated shack I live beside is assessed at $605K! It would probably sell for $500 or less.

Ours is up 18% over last year, hoping that if the whole neighbourhood is up it means my taxes won't increase too much.

[TopChed]

Originally Posted by puckedoff

The property assessments in my neighbourhood are way out of whack. At least $100K above what anyone would pay for any of the houses on my block. Dilapidated shack I live beside is assessed at $605K! It would probably sell for $500 or less.

Ours is up 18% over last year, hoping that if the whole neighbourhood is up it means my taxes won't increase too much.

There probably aren't a ton of detached homes going for under $500k in Calgary these days, unless it's a knockdown in a terrible location.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by puckedoff

Ours is up 18% over last year, hoping that if the whole neighbourhood is up it means my taxes won't increase too much.

The neighbourhood doesn't matter. If you're property went up 10%, it's inline with increases across the city and your taxes will stay "flat" (i.e. you get the 7.8% property tax increase that was passed, but not more).

If your assessment went up 18%, your tax will increase ~16%.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

The neighbourhood doesn't matter. If you're property went up 10%, it's inline with increases across the city and your taxes will stay "flat" (i.e. you get the 7.8% property tax increase that was passed, but not more).

If your assessment went up 18%, your tax will increase ~16%.

That's not flat.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by chemgear

That's not flat.

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[TorqueDog]

Our single-use mayor and her merry band of single-use councillors are targeting single-use bags at drive thru windows at month-end.

Originally Posted by Calgary.ca

Foodware accessories requirements
Are drive thrus and take-away restaurants required to comply with the bylaw requirements?
Yes, drive thrus and take-away restaurants must comply. Businesses must:

Charge the minimum fee for new paper or new reusable shopping bags.
Provide new paper or new reusable shopping bags by request only.
Provide foodware accessories by request only.

So basically you can:
1. Refuse to pay the fee and have your drive thru food rolling around in your f-cking car,
2. Pay a fee for a paper bag, or;
3. Bring a ... reusable bag... for drive thru orders... which no one wants to re-use for anything else because they were used for drive thru food.

Great thing about this fee, by the way, the City doesn't collect it. It isn't a tax that could be put into other environmental initiatives. Nope, the City is effectively asking businesses to gouge customers for the purposes of the environment.

This environmental slacktivism in our governments needs to stop. It's not moving the needle, and it's adding additional costs onto everybody at a time when sh-t is already getting more and more expensive.

[timun]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Great thing about this fee, by the way, the City doesn't collect it. It isn't a tax that could be put into other environmental initiatives. Nope, the City is effectively asking businesses to gouge customers for the purposes of the environment.

FYI the City can enact mandatory minimum fees, but doesn't have the power to collect a tax on stuff like this, so that's why it's implemented this way.


That said I tend to agree with your overarching point that this is just pissing us all off more than it's solving an actual problem. I for one would go as far as disallowing the development of drive-through restaurants entirely, rather than this roundabout way of making the use of drive-throughs more inconvenient.