Committee Starts Work to Split Tax Burden Pie
Monday, March 4, 2013 @ 3:59 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The delicate task of splitting up the property tax burden pie, begins today.
The City of Prince George’s Finance and Audit Committee will meet at noon, for the first of two meetings to decide how much of the burden will be carried by each property type in the City.
Typically, residential property owners carry the bulk, as that class of property carried 54.1% of the burden last year, and 54.09% in 2011.
Last year, the only classification to see a decline, was Major industry, which slipped to 14.4% down from 15.09% as the City follows the rules to reduce the burden on Major industry following court cases which argued Major Industry was being unfairly taxed.
Last year, there were complaints from those in the light industry class, who said their share was unfairly heavy. In an effort to reduce complaints, the City is reminding everyone that the Finance and Audit meetings are open to the public.
The second Finance and Audit Committee meeting to discuss the tax burden is set for March 18th. The meetings are held in the 2nd floor conference room at City Hall.
Comments
Deflecting attention from the masses, while they incremental increasing the taxes by 3.5% anyway.
Maybe we need to put together a PG Taxpayers Forum to scrutinize spending.
Obviously the elected officials are not doing their job.
Why not keep the split the same? It is a really stupid idea to put more of the tax burden on business (large or small). Don’t those businesses have to make money to pay their employees so that the employees can pay their residential taxes?
HeSpoke: “Maybe we need to put together a PG Taxpayers Forum to scrutinize spending.
Obviously the elected officials are not doing their job.”
Bang on, He Spoke. I get that the City is expensive to run, all I would ask is that the manage our tax dollars as if they would manage their own. All too often, there are examples that this isn’t happening.
I still suggest they create a couple of new classifications for businesses….like hydro, natural gas, gasoline/diesel…call it “Energy Business”…when these businesses jack up our costs, we can just do the same with their tax percentages.
Gasoline jumps 30%…then so does their taxes paid to the city…turn around is fair play isn’t it??
Comments for this article are closed.