Search Results for: Municipal Revenues
Presentation | 2017
Transit Fare Integration: Lessons for Toronto from Around the World
Lauren Birch
This presentation explores some key challenges and considerations when it comes to fare integration in Toronto. How can lessons learned from other major cities help us to develop our own transit fare policies?
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Perspectives Paper | 2016
New Tax Sources for Canada’s Largest Cities: What Are the Options?
Harry Kitchen and Enid Slack
This paper argues that additional taxes are entirely appropriate for major cities and estimates the potential revenue that some of these taxes could generate in eight Canadian cities – Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, and Halifax.
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Presentation | 2016
Can Ontario Municipalities Borrow More to Make Needed Investments?
Gustavo Carvalho
What new financial instruments and strategies could municipalities rely on to take advantage of today’s low interest rates? What can we learn from municipal lending markets elsewhere?
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Presentation | 2016
How to Reform the Property Tax
Enid Slack
This presentation was delivered by Dr. Enid Slack to the Caribbean Valuation and Construction Conference in St. Lucia.
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Presentation | 2016
Land Value Capture: Issues, Options, and Implementation
Enid Slack
A presentation given by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Caribbean Valuation and Construction Conference in St. Lucia.
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IMFG Paper | 2016
Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950 to 1975
Richard White
Toronto is known for having been a prosperous and successful city in the decades after the Second World War, and the postwar period has come to be seen as something of a Golden Age for the city. What role did Toronto’s postwar municipal finances play in making the city the success that it was?
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Presentation | 2016
Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950 to 1975
Richard White
In this presentation, historian Richard White presents on the history of Toronto’s revenues and expenditures, public debt, regional governance, intergovernmental finances, and more.
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Video | 2016
What We Do is What We Fund: The 5th Annual City Manager's Address
Peter Wallace
In this video, Toronto City Manager Peter Wallace delivers his annual address to IMFG. Toronto is facing tough decisions in the coming years: does the City have the right toolkit to fund high quality public services and badly needed capital improvements? Do we have a solid foundation on which to position our city-building objectives?
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