Welcome To The Property Taxpayers Alliance
The Property Taxpayers Alliance (PTA) is an association of residential property taxpayers from municipalities and townships across Ontario. We were formed to advocate for the efficient and effective use of the homeowner’s hard-earned property tax dollars.
Property taxes have been rising at multiples of inflation year-after-year while homeowner incomes have been rising at the inflation rate (or less). Above inflation property taxation year-after-year is simply not sustainable. Everyone knows it. So why aren’t councillors doing something about it? Is it because they can’t stand up to the powerful municipal “scare tactics” and “dire warnings” if spending is cut? Who’s really running our cities?
Affordability is becoming a major issue in Ontario. Lower income households are struggling and tax arrears/defaults are rapidly rising.
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Help us tell Hon. Rob Flack, Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, that we want average annual municipal property tax increases, on a percentage basis, to be no greater than the increases in our incomes (using inflation as a proxy for income growth). We already face a growing affordability crisis. Cities must start establishing yearly budgets that increase no faster than the incomes of those who fund those budgets through their property taxes.
The cost of infrastructure for new housing developments is increasingly being dumped on the backs of existing property taxpayers. This is absolutely wrong. Existing property taxpayers have already paid for the infrastructure servicing their properties, and they continue to be taxed for its maintenance. They should not also be taxed to pay for new housing development infrastructure. Growth MUST pay for Growth. If it can’t, our Cities are trying to grow faster than we can afford. Period!
There’s a desperate need for greater efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of Ontario’s municipalities and townships. There is little accountability for the incessant cost overruns, which are simply dumped on the backs of homeowners through higher property taxes. Budgets are ballooning with unrealistic salary, wage, and benefit increases, excessive hiring, and the addition of new discretionary spending programs that property taxpayers never asked for.
Municipal councillors and city senior bureaucrats are well aware of the growing property tax affordability crisis in Ontario, but they fail to do anything about it because they have high incomes and benefits – they’re not affected. They just kick the can down the road hoping the next administration will deal with it.
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Help us bring about change.
If your municipality or township has organized a group to fight ever-rising property taxes, or if you are an individual who is just fed up, let’s work together.
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Email us at info@propertytaxpayer.ca or call (519)-716-1645 to join the movement.