11 Replies to “Taxes in Alberta”

  1. I’m sure the Municipalities are as poorly run as most other municipalities, and squander their tax base on things that municipalities really shouldn’t be doing.

    1. Our town has spent millions installing bike lanes that hardly anybody uses, eliminating a lot of on-street parking in the process. We do have a fair share of cyclists, but they just use the streets as they have always done. Conflicts with car traffic have never been a problem.

  3. I see that.. Get rid of the oil and all the eastern transgenders will move in and expand the tax base..
    Why didn’t I think of that?..

  4. It was widely reported in 2020 that western Canada had sacrificed $150 billion in investment in LNG and pipeline project development under the Trudeau Regime. Four years later, that number has likely grown significantly. These were high paying labour and equipment-intensive investments with large economic multipliers. The result in Alberta was the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxable economic activity.

    Renewable energy investment would have continued to occur over that period, given the. Global imperative to do so. Perhaps, arguably, at a lower rate.

    For municipalities to snivel about their millions of dollars of payables is rich indeed. Perhaps a little more foresight of, and reaction to the punishing and devastating impact the absence of a competent federal government would engender some sympathy.

    Fight the cause, not the symptom.

  5. I am amazed that the Alberta government allows oilfield property tax to go to local governments. Some have extortionate mill rates and they provide zero services. Also it is uneven in that some have oil and gas and some don’t. Oil companies even have to build all roads off the pavement in unsettled areas and are subject to near perpetual road bans in settled areas. Property tax bills have made a few fairly big local producers go bankrupt.

    1. Well some RM’s are almost entirely dependent on oilfield property and it includes machinery and equipment tax.

    2. In Alberta I’ve seen a company build an oilfield facility or gas plant outside a municipality. The municipality then expands their boundaries to encompass that facility. This brings in property tax revenue to the municipality.

  6. It’s a Canadian Press story so I know it’s full of lies.

    It is beyond tiresome to try and figure out if there’s even a nugget of truth in stories from CP or AP.

  7. They have a spending problem, not a revenue problem
    The big blue cock ring in Calgary comes to mind

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