Bokhari says condo owners unfairly taxed
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The Manitoba Liberals say condominium owners are paying more than their fair share of property taxes, and a government they lead would ensure municipalities gave them a fair shake.
The manner in which taxes are calculated for condos is the same as it is for houses despite the fact that service costs — for roads, snow clearing and garbage pickup, for instance — are lower, Liberal leader Rana Bokhari said Monday.
“We are willing and wanting to work with the municipal government to make sure that we’re opening up that legislation to bring those rates down… to take away any of the unfairness of this,” she told a news conference at her Osborne Village campaign office.
The ratio of houses to condos in Winnipeg is about five to one, the Liberals say. So if a rebalancing of tax burden were to be revenue-neutral, it would cost $1 per house owner for each $5 break given to a condo owner, they add.
Bokhari wouldn’t say how much it would cost to make the system fairer — just that the system needs to move in that direction. She said Mayor Brian Bowman is on board with making the tax system fairer for condo owners.
Meanwhile, Bokhari was asked why she released her 2013 income tax information on Sunday and not the 2014 form. She replied that it was the best she could do on short notice after NDP Leader Greg Selinger released his income tax return to the media to show he is not squirrelling away money in offshore accounts, like many politicians and business leaders recently named in the Panama Papers dump of data.
Pressed further, she said she didn’t know whether she had filed a 2014 tax return.
“I would have to look,” she said. “I don’t know if I filed my taxes. I probably did. I just don’t have it on me right now.”
larry.kusch@freepress.mb.ca
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