Photo: Marie-France Coallier Archives Le Devoir The city centre’s share represents 87% of the bill, but taxpayers can expect their borough to increase its local tax.
Jeanne Corriveau
Published at 11:05 a.m. Updated at 11:20 a.m.
- Montreal
The tax increases imposed on Montrealers by the central city will be limited to an average of 1.8% next year, Valérie Plante’s administration announced Thursday. But this increase does not take into account any local tax increases that the boroughs could decree.
The administration decided to reveal its intentions regarding municipal taxes earlier this year. Usually, it reveals tax increases when the city’s budget is tabled at the end of November.
“It was important for us to announce the tax rate for the central city as soon as possible, to reassure citizens and offer them more predictability,” said executive committee chair Luc Rabouin in a press release.
Montreal will limit tax increases under the jurisdiction of city council to the actual inflation rate observed last August, which is 1.8%, which indicates that the administration is respecting its election commitment to limit increases to inflation. The central city’s share represents 87% of the bill, but taxpayers can expect their borough to increase its local tax.
Last year, for example, the average tax increase for Montrealers in the central city was 4%. This, combined with borough taxes, resulted in an overall increase of 4.9%. The Anjou borough in particular imposed a local tax increase of 2.9%, bringing the increase to 6.3%. In Pierrefonds-Roxboro, the local tax increase reached 1.6%, for a total of 7.2%.
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