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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-10-25, Page 24PAGE 6A --GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1979 A&P reserves the tight to limit quantities to normal family requirements) What happens after 1980 BY JACK RIDDELL M.P.P. There has been a great deal of concern, par- ticularly in rural municipalities, about the new equalization factors which the Minister of Revenue announced last July. The purpose of the new equalization factors is to provide an updated and standard basis for calculating certain grants and municipal cost sharing arrangements. These new factors replaced those which were frozen in 1970. Although these factors reflect the changes which have taken place in property values over the past decade, they do not represent a change in the government's taxation policy. However, if the new factors were used without limit, there would be large and in some cases unacceptable shifts in the burden of property taxation among municipalities and among ratepayers. Without offsetting government action, the use of the new factors would create s.ubstantial increases in taxation in a large number of municipalities. The government proposes to • alleviate this impact by providing special funding to municipalities in 1980. In addition, the govern- ment is instituting a limit on the assessment shifts which can take place in 1980 as a result of the new factors. Basically, for municipal apportionment: purposes, assessment 'shifts caused by the new factors of up to five percent will"be allowed to take 'place. Beyond that level shifts due to the new factors will be prevented. For general municipal purposes, shifts in levies caused by the new factors will be limited to five percent as well. The new equalized " assessment will also be used for grant purposes. However, for those municipalities whose equalized assessment has been increased relative to the provincial average by the new factors (and thus, whose level of grant support would normally decrease), the govern- ment reiterates its commitment to provide at least as much in grant payments in 1980 as they would have received under the use of the old factors. F o r other municipalities, the new equalized assessment will be used for the resource equalization. grant except in those cases _where there . is a relative reduction in equalized assessment of more than 10 percent. In .. these cases, the relative reduction would be limited to 10 percent and the resource equalization, grant would be paid on that basis. In addition, the" government has put 'an overall limit of $10 per' capita on the amount of increase over their 1979 resource' equalization grant which.' .' •.any municipality can receive. The government • has also decided to introduce greater uniformity in respect of the split millrate. The split millrate is the measure by which residential and farm taxpayers pay a lower tax rate than is paid on other properties. At present this split is at 15percent for municipal purposes. However, the split is not now recognized for purposes of the resource equalization grant. Starting in 1980, the split millrate will be standardized at 15 per- cent for that grant as well as most other municipal purposes. This measure by itself will further cushion residential taxpayers and modify the adverse shift to residential and farming communities which is Turn to page 7A e { i Prices effective thru Satur day, 'I'ctober 27th, 1979. WE REDEEM ALL FOOD STORE COUPONS! Loto Canada, Provincial & Wintario tickets available at A&P Food Stores! r ' SAVE 70¢ Powdered TIDE DETERGENT 6 Titre box lommoommooN 99 (Our Regular Price 3.69) BOUNCE FABRIC SOFTENER ofk 20 sheets Action Price! 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