Toronto needs to stop squeezing its homeowners for tax revenue
Craig Rouillard is an e-commerce executive in Toronto.
Toronto’s budget deficit, now at $1.5-billion, is not solely the responsibility of homeowners, so the city should not be expecting them to fund all its needs. Yet that appears to be exactly what it is doing with its plan to raise property taxes by an astronomical 10.5 per cent.
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