{"id":149261,"date":"2023-04-19T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=149261"},"modified":"2023-04-19T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:41:14","slug":"prince-rupert-sees-three-proposed-tax-rate-changes-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/prince-rupert-sees-three-proposed-tax-rate-changes-in-one-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Rupert sees three proposed tax rate changes in one month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the course of a month, Prince Rupert residents have seen three different proposed tax rate changes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First announced in March, Prince Rupert council set a proposed 15.7 per cent property tax rate. According to the city, this increase is impacted by several factors out of their control. Since municipalities cannot operate in a deficit, they must keep the budget balanced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prince Rupert City Manager Rob Buchan says that one of the biggest contributing factors to the increase is a reduced Payment in Lieu of Taxes from port properties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buchan also talked about inflation\u2019s role in the increase, impacting general operating costs like policing contracts and labour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, when a $1 million loan repayment came from CityWest at the end of March, it made a positive impact.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly after that announcement, the city updated their proposed budget on the website, now including a 13.4 percent tax rate increase instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in the first of two public consultations on the proposed increase on April 11, council announced a final amendment sitting at 12.5 per cent. Buchan says that change came from city staff actively working to lower the rate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the budget changes made to lower the tax rate include removing a recreation centre improvement that was estimated to cost $100,000 and reducing the general operating hours of the centre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A final public consultation on the proposed budget will happen on April 24 in council chambers at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Rob Buchan below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of a month, Prince Rupert residents have seen three different proposed tax rate changes.\u00a0 First announced in March, Prince Rupert council set a proposed 15.7 per cent property tax rate. According to the city, this increase is impacted by several factors out of their control. Since municipalities cannot operate in a deficit,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":140511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,225],"tags":[25280,3456,19700,25281],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149334,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149261\/revisions\/149334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149261"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=149261"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=149261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}