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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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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Conference on Making Fiscal Equalization Work at Freie Universität Berlin on June 27, 2014.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the UN Habitat Global Expert Group Meeting on Urban Development Financing: The Challenge of Local Governments in Developing Countries in Barcelona, Spain on June 25, 2014.
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Presentation delivered by André Côté at the York Region Make Rental Happen Awards and Housing Symposium on June 20, 2014.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Zachary Spicer at the annual conference of the Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks, and Treasurers of Ontario on perceptions of professional accreditation on June 10, 2014.
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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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Three major trends are pushing us towards an inflection point in provincial-municipal arrangements. Adapting provincial-municipal arrangements to changing circumstances will require a shift in how the two orders of government understand their roles and the nature of their relationships.
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Three major trends are buffeting provincial-municipal arrangements in Ontario. The first is a growing recognition of the role cities and metropolitan regions play as centres of growth and national prosperity. The second is increasing complexity in the provincial-municipal relationship. The third is the emergence of threats to the fiscal health of Ontario municipalities.
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