Collaborating for municipal tax reform.
This is a first. We have partnered with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce to ask that the Province of Nova Scotia undertake a study into the potential for a shift from municipal property taxes to municipal income taxes as the principal source of municipal revenue. The three organizations have each released reports that reach similar conclusions: the property tax system is flawed, inefficient, and unfair.
Read the full press release [2] with links to all of these reports.
Read the CCPA-NS primer [3] on why we support a move to municipal income tax.
The CCPA-NS first floated the idea of a Refunded Municipal Income Tax in our2012 Alternative Provincial budget [4]. We called again for the ReMit again in our first ever Alternative Municipal Budget for HRM 2012 [5].
Here is some of the media coverage of the ReMit:
- Think Tank: Income Tax Could Fund City Budget [6], The Chronicle Herald, August 29, 2012
- Property Taxes: There Must Be a Better Way [7], Halifax Media Co-op, October 14, 2012