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It’s not the % but the total $ paid in tax I care about. By brother in Mississauga pays about the same total $ in property tax on his five bedroom detached as I do for my five bedroom semi in downtown Toronto, even though his house is valued at less than mine. But in my mind, he uses a lot more services and generates more cost to the city due to his lack of density.
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One can really only compare City taxes if one also looks at the services provided for these taxes. How do the libraries, transit, shelters, old age homes etc etc compare??? (Does Mississauga offer leaf collection? :->) In addition, far more people come into Toronto to work/shop/play than go to suburbs for these things and there are costs (and, of course, benefits for all of us) that come with this. (The huge cost of the Gardiner 'rehab' comes to mind.) Not sure how to compare but a straight "our taxes for a 2000sq ft home are higher/lower" is not going to give a fair comparison.
I thought this service was only in Etobicoke and Scarborough but there were City crews in my neighbourhood (Woodbine and Danforth) collecting leaves from the sidewalks and gutters.One modest thing I like in this budget is staff again trying to kill Mechanical Leaf collection in portions of Etobicoke and Scarborough.
Leaf collection in Etobicoke and Scarborough the latest casualty of city budget
Toronto staff are recommending the end of the decades-old program in order to save $1.6 million a year.
Just to be contrary, Councillor Holyday is fuming about this most unfair service cut to this constituents.
Yes, but it seemed more proactive to clear out the leaves before the drains became clogged. No notice, just an army of trucks one late October morning scooping, plowing, vacuuming and hauling truckloads of leaves away. I moved here in August, but neighbours said it's usually done every year, though some years were skipped.
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