Roving bands of white youths, bomb threats and reports of new attempts at racially integrated freedom rides caused an uneasy night. City council came under fire from local hoteliers yesterday for considering a room tax, a Keystone Centre hotel and uncertainty about tourism promotion.
After seeking clarification from the province yesterday, division secretary treasurer Gerald Barnes tells the Sun that Brandon will, in fact, be in line for the tax incentive grant the province offered divisions to hold the line on property taxes in this week's funding announcement.
Nick Martin reports "Manitoba's students are performing below the Canadian average in reading, math and science..." There is an obvious reason for this fact. The original target of provincial funding covering approximately 80 to 85 per cent of a division's budget has eroded to less than 65 per cent (individual divisions vary). All the rest must be levied by the local boards -- which this government apparently despises and wants to eliminate. Unfortunately, local school boards are now being further restricted from raising necessary cash to pay for the programs. Boards are now penalized for raising local tax levies to cover the ever-increasing educational costs being downloaded to the local school divisions. It is not only in financing that students are being shortchanged. With the in...
The tax deferral program allows eligible producers to defer income tax on the sale of breeding livestock for one year to help replenish breeding stock in the following year.
In the first ring, ladies and gentleman, we have Education Minister Peter Bjornson selling snake oil - in the form of so-called "incentive grants" for school divisions that don't raise their local tax rates. Interestingly, he did find the time to personally call board chair Jim Murray to tell him he couldn't meet with trustees and he also found the time to pen a letter to the editor of this paper that, in a rather haughty tone, said his "unprecedented and innovative funding announcement" should allow school divisions to hold the line on taxes.
Last week in this column, we talked about how Education Minister Peter Bjornson put school trustees in an awkward and unfair position with his so-called "incentive grants" for school divisions that don't raise their local tax rates. Trustees said they met with the education minister and asked him these questions but received no firm answers, only some vague reference to a four-year plan for education funding in Manitoba.
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The proposed tax increase translates into between $40 and $45 more in municipal property taxes for the average homeowner in Brandon - as long as they were assessed at the city average during last year's provincial reassessment.
WE are often tempted to look to other cities around the world for ideas about how to finance and govern our own cities. Each city is unique, however, in terms of its history and culture, its constitution, and the intergovernmental context in which it operates. London, England, for example, is part of a unitary state (a central government and local governments but no provincial governments) and receives more than 80 per cent of its funding from central government grants. Although it levies a residential property tax (the council tax), London has very little local fiscal autonomy. New York City, on the other hand, is part of a federal system (comprising federal, state, and local governments) and receives a much larger part of its revenues from local taxation than does London. New York lev...
The co-op could also cash in on tax abatement program from the city, which could be relied upon for up to 20 years.
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