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As the size and scope of responsibilities for cities expands, do local governments have the appropriate financial and governance arrangements to effectively and efficiently deliver services to residents?
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Can cities in Canada rely on the revenues generated by tax increment financing (TIF)? What are the mechanics of assessing the uplift from a TIF before a project is implemented? How much money has it actually raised in practice?
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The City of Toronto implemented a land transfer tax on real estate transactions in February 2008. This study explores the impact of the tax on housing sales in the City of Toronto and the rest of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
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This paper evaluates the financial tools available to fund stormwater infrastructure (property taxes, development charges or cash-in-lieu payments, grants, borrowing, and user charges), and proposes user charges as the most appropriate.
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This report reviews tax increment financing (TIF) and land value capture (LVC), two alternative sources of revenue to support new infrastructure and development for which municipal funds are not readily available. It simulates a 30-year TIF implementation along the Sheppard East corridor in Toronto.
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In this presentation, IMFG and today’s leading infrastructure thinkers and practitioners convene for a conversation about how to overcome cost overruns on public infrastructure projects.
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This video features an event hosted by IMFG and today’s leading infrastructure thinkers and practitioners on how to overcome cost overruns on public infrastructure projects. The event followed the release of a new paper by Matti Siemiatycki for IMFG, called Cost Overruns on Major Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and Cures.
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The three main explanations for cost overruns and delays are technical challenges, over-optimism, and strategic misrepresentations. This paper looks at the root of persistent cost overruns on public megaprojects, and proposes ways to fix this problem.
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