Municipal spending and municipal taxes are amongst the lowest in Canada. KPMG says businesses in Vancouver have the lowest business taxes amongst 41 cities they studied. So how come the pressure keeps coming to shift property taxes away from business and on to residential taxpayers?
Blair Redlin’s Blog Posts
Blair Redlin is a researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and a former Deputy Minister with the BC government.
Big municipal tax shift a great deal for business
November 7th, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 1 Comment · Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Municipalities, Taxes
Tags: role of government·tax cuts·Taxes
B.C. Government: Truest of the Trade True Believers
April 20th, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 2 Comments · Economy
Alone amongst provinces, only B.C. failed to exempt even a single municipality or provincial agency from the recent Canada/U.S. Procurement Agreement.
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Corporations are people too
January 31st, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 3 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes
Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to give meaning to those old [...]
Tags: accountability·B.C. government·corporations·democracy·Electoral reform·Municipalities·STV & electoral reform
