AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill says that property taxes are inefficient, wasteful, have no connection to the services you’re seeing, no connection to your ability to pay and essentially are a drag on economic investment and business activity.
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Op-ed in The Chronicle Herald - At every corner, it seems, tax burdens are rising. Taxpayers in the Halifax region have good reason to be skeptical of recent calls for the city to adopt an income tax model as a means to collect revenue.
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill, Dr. Michael Bradfield of CCPA-NS, and Wayne Fiander of NS Chambers of Commerce join Jordi Morgan of News 95.7 to discuss municipal tax reform.
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill joined Rick Howe of News 95.7 to talk about how AIMS has come together with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce to encourage the province to to take a serious look at eliminating property taxes.
AIMS has teamed up with NS Chambers of Commerce and the CCPA-NS to encourage the province to ditch property taxation.
AIMS President & CEO Charles Cirtwill talks municipal tax reform on Global Maritimes.
Op-ed in The Chronicle Herald As three groups push for a shift to income tax as a way to fund municipal services, a problematic assumption has been made: that higher assessments have to equally mean higher tax bills.
Three groups spanning the political spectrum want the province to consider overhauling the municipal tax system so that a surcharge on income would be the main contributor to city coffers.