Tax Fee Shows City Desperate: MULVIHILL
How desperate are City of Ottawa finances? Serious question.
A recent notification detailing the necessity of charging homeowners 55 cents for the city to withdraw property tax paid monthly seems a bit cheap. Not cheap in a good way.
Homeowners can pay their property taxes monthly with a simple withdrawal by the city from a designated bank account the city has permission to access. Homeowners can also pay their property taxes biannually upon receipt of their tax bill.
It’s the chintzy 55 cent fee that strikes a chord. There are hundreds of millions of dollars for useless, unwarranted projects … Lansdowne 2.0 and Tewin come to mind … but homeowners will be charged for doing the right thing by paying their property taxes.
Would anyone want to lay a friendly wager that it won’t be long before that 55 cents ramps up to $5? Taxpayers are getting dinged at every opportunity and we should start taking note. It is no longer a simple 3.?% annual tax increase. Add in all of the other parts of the property tax pie and don’t forget to include recreational administration fees. Before too long, we are looking at upwards of 12 per cent. So please spare us the indignant explanations of the why and wherefore. This is nothing more than another cash grab … similar to red light cameras operating on statutory holidays.
Are we really that desperate?
Donna Mulvihill is a community activist and former hospital coordinator
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The city is practising “money magic” – now you see it, now you don’t. Better to tuck the money into a high interest savings account (ha ha) and pay the piper twice annually. If you can’t beat ’em why help ’em?
My taxes went up $70 from June to July. That is 12% including levies. Another another 12% coming this year before the election year freeze. That translates into pretty major rent increases too
I once sold a car for “coin payment”. it was actually interesting getting $600 in rolls of toonies.
I’m thinking of paying in “coins” this year in protest.
AI calculated a sample amount for me:
Total weight: $3,000 in toonies would weigh 10.38 kilograms (approximately 22.88 pounds).
Total rolls: It would be 60 rolls of $2 coins.
Looks like a wheeled suitcase is required.
@waba WHAT Don’t forget the salaries of the people to count it, people to bundle it up for someone else to take to the bank. E-transfers are an administrative cost savers and for the city to add a ”processing fee” is beyond insulting.