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Taxability to rise on Saskatchewan rangeland

The percentage of value (POV) subject to property taxes will be bumped back up on Saskatchewan producers’ rangeland and pasture for the 2017 tax year. Government Relations Minister Donna Harpauer on Monday announced the POV on non-arable (range) land such as pastures will be set via regulatory amendment at 45 per cent, up from 40.

Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer told the KAP advisory council the “entire (education taxation) system needs to be changed instead of seeking “band-aid solutions.”

Local news

KAP says fund education through income tax and residences

Farmers complain about skyrocketing tax increases on farmland, even though province-wide  they are up only 15 per cent on average, according to a Manitoba government official

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2016

Keystone Agricultural Producers members have taken their stance on education tax reform one step further and are calling for the funds to be raised through income tax and a tax on residences. That adds to their long-standing call for removing the heavy tax burden on farmland and production buildings, and came during their annual advisory

Local politicians say any solution to the land tax question has to come from the provincial government.

Local news

Tax protest in RM of Springfield

Organizers want the Manitoba government to remove education taxes on farmland

By Allan Dawson November 3, 2016

Landowners in the RM of Springfield are refusing to pay land taxes they say have jumped unreasonably, more than doubling in some cases. They’re hoping to see the province reconsider the way it collects education taxes from farmland, says Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer, who first suggested Manitoba farmers take action in a Facebook posting “It

Manitoba farmers are all worked up over massive farmland tax increases, but they’re not ready to engage in a tax revolt just yet.

Local news

Farmers fail to rally to tax revolt talk

But some want to know why their property taxes have  more than doubled in a year

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2016

If farmland property taxes are too high, don’t pay them. That’s what Dugald farmer Edgar Scheurer suggested while commenting on Facebook about Manitoba Co-operator stories on skyrocketing farmland taxes. Is Scheurer, who faces a 95 per cent jump in his Rural Municipality of Springfield tax bill, seriously suggesting a tax revolt or being facetious? Although

Local news

Manitoba government seeking solutions to tax shift to high-value farmland

Tax increases may affect industry stability

By Allan Dawson October 6, 2016

The Manitoba government and Association of Manitoba Municipalities are aware of a shocking rise in property taxes facing some Manitoba farmers. Both are exploring what can be done, but officials didn’t provide any potential solutions when interviewed last week. “Yeah, it is causing concern without a doubt,” Eileen Clarke, minister of indigenous and municipal relations,

Local news

Local government wants greater share of tax dollar

Municipalities say the money is needed to sustain key infrastructure

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 14, 2016

Most Manitobans agree local councils should get a fairer share of infrastructure tax dollars and have greater say in how they’re spent. That’s according to a recent poll conducted for the Association of Manitoba Municipalities which showed 85 per cent of those surveyed by NPG Research in January think local government should have access to

Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 22, 2011

September 22, 2011

Pay more for hydro, less for property tax The Manitoba Education Financing Coalition Group wants tax to take a hike, (Sept. 1) deserves strong support from all Manitobans, including its proposal that education tax be paid with profits from Manitoba Hydro. I doubt that the profits are lying there, ready for the taking. I expect

Opinion

Removing Education Financing From Property Tax Bills

By Doug Chorney September 15, 2011

It s September and Manitobans with students in the family are in back-to- school mode. Farmers have education on their minds as well because a provincial election is nearing and we are pushing for changes that will lower our property tax bills. Many people may not realize this, but Manitoba farm families shoulder an inequitable

News

School Trustees Concerned About Future Ability To Set Rates

By Ron Friesen October 1, 2009

“We’re getting a message that everything’s on the table.” – CAROLYN DUHAMEL, MSBA Manitoba school trustees are watching closely as a Saskatchewan measure to strip local school boards of their power to levy education taxes takes effect this year. The Saskatchewan move leaves Manitoba as virtually the only province in Canada where local school boards

Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Oct. 23, 2008

October 23, 2008

CWB needed now more than ever Several decades of deregulation championed by Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, U. S. president Ronald Reagan, Canada’s Brian Mulroney, and their biggest cheerleader, Stephen Harper, have come home to roost with the global market meltdown. Of course we have been here before. For farmers the real depression started in 1921 with

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Tag Archives Property tax

Taxability to rise on Saskatchewan rangeland

KAP says fund education through income tax and residences

Tax protest in RM of Springfield

Farmers fail to rally to tax revolt talk

Manitoba government seeking solutions to tax shift to high-value farmland

Local government wants greater share of tax dollar

Letters – for Sep. 22, 2011

Removing Education Financing From Property Tax Bills

School Trustees Concerned About Future Ability To Set Rates

LETTERS – for Oct. 23, 2008

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