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Presentation by IMFG Director Enid Slack at the Seminario Internacional sobre alternativas de financiamiento de ciudades in Bogotá, Colombia on November 18, 2014.
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This paper describes the City of Toronto’s financial condition and recent fiscal trends in four areas: spending and services; taxes and revenues; infrastructure; and debt and savings.
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This paper makes the case for a local business tax. The BVT is better than the discriminatory and heavy real property taxes currently levied on businesses in Ontario and other provinces. Moreover, such a tax would be complementary rather than competitive to VATs like the GST and HST.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Windsor-Essex Policy & Solutions Forum on May 15, 2014.
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This video features Toronto City Manager Joe Pennachetti in his third annual address to IMFG. In the presentation, he discusses the key challenges facing municipalities, the City’s fiscal position, and the strategic directions the City must weigh to build for the future.
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Can and should municipalities borrow more? What is the role of public-private partnerships (P3s) in addressing the municipal infrastructure gap?
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In recent years, we have seen a sharp increase in foreign demand for Canadian assets, including bonds issued by Canadian municipalities and provinces. IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Kyle Hanniman discussed the factors driving foreign investment in Canada's subnational bond market; the implications of these developments for municipal borrowing costs and credit spreads; and what, if anything, municipalities are doing to manage the risks and opportunities involved.
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A growing number of cities are turning to public-private partnerships (P3s) to finance their infrastructure investments. What are the advantages and disadvantages of P3s as a municipal financing model? How do they work? And what role do the federal and provincial governments play?
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