the city decides to "not raise taxes" yet again

In an email, a spokesperson for Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Ron Lemieux said: "We are watching the discussions between the city and Manitoba Hydro very closely and it's premature to say what role the province might play."

The Province is very concerned.

They believe that only they can use Hydro as a cash-cow.

The province is really concerned because they have no idea what to do with this Sammy already...He's losing it...GGF

1) turned several streets of 2 hour free parking into paid parking
2) trying to tax the tax on untilities
3) new bylaw zoning memorandum
4) garbage bins that only hold X amount of trash
5) ....

Sammy is trying to apply a municipal tax over the PST and GST tax total and thinks he can do it...Hum!!!...He believes that a municipal "tax" by-law superseedes a Provincial or Federal Tax Law...and yup...Check out the article and notice how Sammy mentions Police Helicopters which in my translation goes as follows...

Sammy already knows that province says no to funding the operational cost of helicopter...and Sammy grrrrrrrr...Sammy go after MB Hydro...so Sammy can have city pay for operation cost of Heli...and "It's Classic" because now Sammy looks more like...Da!!! instead...GGF

the tax on tax that really irks me is the GST that we must pay on the recyling levy we pay when we buy bottles of stuff.

When I first noticed it I called revenue Canada and spoke with a lady there. Her answer.. and I am NOT making this up was.

"Well I just went to Safeway last night and they charged me too, so it must be right"

You gotta love answers like that and don't you wish carrying bats around could do wonderful things for some of these government agencies...and Let's play ball...Oops...That was your head...Sorry...GGF

And then when they wake up...Tell them you told them so...GGF

You missed a few...

Higher fees at dump...re new garbage bins and because many will have to go...Increased last Oct.(jumped)

Higher front levy tax...Not specifically raised but kept as is and incorporated as the whole property tax...The front levy tax was what the city was using for sewer and water upgrades...at any rate...Sammy raised our sewer and water rates instead...Hum!!!

Higher sewer and mainly water rates...to "now" pay for new water upgrades...

No problem Sammy says...double, triples just like he plays ball...GGF

"Higher fees at dump"
that was a provincially mandated one. the city had little choice but to adopt it.

That what the city claims but that isn't entirely true..The city is famous for blaming the province...It's Sammy's favorite spin because he believes that he should be king...GGF

Please vote for GGF if you like...
Sammy....

S...Scammed
A...All
M...My
M...Money
Y...Yesterday
GGF

Quoting yourself GGF? Try not to be obsessed by sammy. That can't be healthy...

Not...Just funny sometimes...and sometimes serious...GGF

Deank wrote:"Higher fees at dump"
that was a provincially mandated one. the city had little choice but to adopt it.

The city owns the dump where do you get this one .

and the non city owned dumps had to raise fees as well. It was a provincial environment regulation handed down by the province. I can find the order if need be

I know the fee went up but I thought that was cause the city wanted more money.

It jump from $2:00 to $10:00 for res. so what do you call that?...and...

And now multiply the 8 bucks by many since October and many more now because of the new garbage bins etc...and...

Not to mention go from $22.50 to $43.50 a kg for commercial and also add that difference now and what do you call that?...

And none of those fees where "Arbitrary" or imposed by the province...

The province simply introduced new legislation that Brady and or BFI were already mainly in compliance with and they never told Brady or BFI what to charge for dump fees and or any other small garbage dumps what they should charge as garbage dump fees in the rest of the province...The province never has...

Sammy just used it to spin his crap and justify his fee increases for Wpg and blamed it on the Province...

The legislation that the province introduced affected all the small dumps in the rest of the province and in "dramatic and costly ways" which are in other municipalities around the province and not Wpg...and...

And the reason the province introduced the new legislation was to "Protect" the underground water "systems" before another disaster happens like "Walkerton"...

None the less...The legislation really didn't affect Brady or BFI much because of their size alone...

They were already in compliance with many if not all of those requirements by the province...

The dump fee increases are simply a money grab by the city and were a "prelude" to offset the cost of the new automated garbage bin system being introduced now...

And if you ever wonder about where does Sammy get the money to spend all the time...Well that's one of the ways he did it without most being aware of it...GGF

here ya all go

http://www.gov.mb.ca/finance/taxation/bulletins/currentbudgetchanges.pdf

note the... effective X date the operators must charge X dollars (to be paid to the prov) of which it is supposed to be rebated back to municipalities

So where did you find that because I couldn't...GGF

the pdf? or the stuff about the actual amounts and such?

I found the pdf on the gov website it was part of the tax changes implemented this year and this is a discussion paper on it

Found it...Page 5...

July 01, 2009 the province legislates a minimum fee of $10.00 a ton and not (a kg) which works out to roughly $4.55 a kg and or not a minimum fee of $10.00 as is being charged right now...and the province will rebate 80% of all fees collected ...and...

a) And Residential garbage brought in by joe smoe doesn't even come near that weight classification of a ton one way or the other...so $10.00 instead $4.55 is an extra $5.45 charged by the city for what?...
And now what is 80% of $10.00...2 bucks for the province...and 8 bucks for Sammy...so yeah he is wrong and then some in my opinion...And the province really didn't increase anything other than to give it will back to the city mainly because the province wants the city to implement more recycling which the city has no idea how it's going to do that because the money is already used for the new garbage bin collection being introduced instead...
And Sammy certainly didn't tell any of us that he was getting back 80% of what was collected from the garbage fee increases now did he...No...He simply bashed the province over it...Period...

b) And now Commercial garbage disposal rates/fees...from $22.50 to $43.50 why?...and for the record those are collected at the dump and paid with our tax dollars...When the city p/u's up our garbage it first pays for the fee and then it is refunded by the province and do the math what the extra dollars are for the city there...GGF

the city was already charging whatever it was...$20 per load? that was both revenue and cost recovery for the operation of the dump. now the prov is saying you must charge X more. dont worry we will give 80% back.. BUT they dont say it will be directly back and the understanding is that it will come back in the form of other types of rebates for environmental iniatives. SO it wont be coming back to pay for the operation of the dump.

fees at Brady went up as well.