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Toronto to explore municipal sales tax as part of plan to tackle 'unprecedented financial crisis' (www.cbc.ca)

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By Lucas Powers · CBC News

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Sales tax uniformly applies to everyone by the same absolute amount but relatively affects poorer people more. The city should just raise property taxes instead. May help reduce the housing cost as well which would make the city more affordable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Also considering TO has one of (the?) lowest property tax rates in Ontario it seems like a no-brainer to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly. If anything we need to catch up to make sure all of us home owners pay our fair share.

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