Calgary Time to fight a 25% property tax hike

Calgary’s city council’s draft three-year budget has proposed a whopping 25% tax hike! This includes a 9.6% tax hike in this year alone -- over two-and-a-half times higher than Calgary’s current inflation rate of 3.7%!

These astronomical tax hikes would be some of the largest in Calgary’s history.

Enough is enough.

Time to fight this 25% tax grab!

Remember, this is a three-year budget, so if you don’t take action now, you won’t get another say until 2011.

Step 1:

Call or e-mail your alderman at 403-268-2430 or alderweb@calgary.ca and tell them to start looking for places to CUT THE FAT!

Step 2:

Call or e-mail the mayor’s office at 403-268-5622 or themayor@calgary.ca and tell him to keep the tax hike below 3.7% for each of the next three years.

Step 3:

Dial 311 – Calgary’s municipal phone service – and tell them you don’t want to pay a 25% tax hike.

Step 4:

Show up at the public budget hearing on Monday, November 17th at 9:30AM at City Hall.

Step 5:

Attend the Budget Open House at City Hall on Saturday, November 15th from 10AM to 3PM.

Need more help:

CLICK HERE here for an e-mail submission form right to your alderman.

CLICK HERE to read the City’s proposed budget.

Notice to Supporters

Please be advised that www.taxpayer.com is down. The site has been hacked into and we are having to update security protocols. This has been very frustrating but we are working to resolve the problems as quickly as possible. We expect to be back up and running the week of November 17, 2008.