Municipal Tax Collection

WHEREAS under Section 197 1 b of the Community Charter municipalities must, by bylaw, impose property value taxes for the year by establishing tax rates for the amounts to be collected for the year to meet its taxing obligations in relation to another local government or other public body; AND WHEREAS the proportion of municipal taxes collected may be considerably less than the taxes collected for other local governments or other public bodies such as school districts, regional districts, improvement districts, and any other local government overlapping municipal boundaries, creating inequitable work load demands on those municipalities: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the provincial government review its tax collection formula so municipalities collect only those taxes that they are in direct receipt of, and do not collect taxes for other local bodies.