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On the occasion of IMFG @ 20, several IMFG contributors looked back at their past papers to reflect on what they think now about the issues they wrote about earlier, and how they see the future 20 years from now. Authors include Enid Slack, Zack Taylor, Alexandra Flynn, Gabriel Eidelman, Adam Found, and Matti Siemiatycki.
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Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson discussed the intergovernmental New Deal Working Group aimed at establishing a path to fiscal sustainability.
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Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson discussed the intergovernmental New Deal Working Group aimed at establishing a path to fiscal sustainability.
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New IMFG paper on property taxes in Ireland draws potential lessons from the Irish experience for other countries and identifies future opportunities.
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Graduate Fellow Devin Bissky Dziadyk reviewed the decades of research on the property tax, and provide new estimates of the incidence of the tax in Canada. Most estimates suggest that the property tax is regressive. If so, what does the regressivity of the property tax imply for cities, and do we need to reform the property tax to make it fairer?
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In this presentation, Graduate Fellow Devin Bissky Dziadyk reviews the decades of research on the property tax, and provide new estimates of the incidence of the tax in Canada.
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Many Canadian municipalities have taken hits to their budgets due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But what has the effect been on municipalities around the world? Have municipalities in different countries fared better than others? What accounts for any differences? What needs to be done to ensure municipalities bounce back?
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In this video, a panel examines the continued impact of COVID-19 on municipal finance. How are municipalities preparing for their 2021 budgets? What impacts are they anticipating from COVID-19? What steps are needed at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels to safeguard the fiscal health of municipalities?
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