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BC Municipal Spending Watch 2011

November 14, 2011
CFIB’s annual ranking of BC’s freest spending municipalities returns with a uglier-than-ever picture of local government spending, and the impact on your wallet. The latest report shows municipal operating spending, adjusted for inflation, has ballooned to nearly four times the rate of population growth in BC.
 

BC Municipal Spending Watch 2010

December 2, 2010
Municipal operating spending in the vast majority of BC's municipalities continues to grow at an unsustainable rate. Failure to control operating expenditures will mean tax and user fee hikes for small business and other taxpayers across BC for many years to come.

BC Municipal Spending Watch 2009

November 5, 2009
Municipal operating expenditures in British Columbia continue to increase at an unsustainably high rate. This overspending comes at the expense of families, small businesses, and other commercial ratepayers through property tax increases, user fee hikes, and higher transfer payments from senior levels of government.

BC Municipal Spending Watch 2008

June 4, 2008
With few exceptions, operating spending at the local level in BC has grown at rates that greatly exceed population and inflation growth since 2000. These spending increases have been financed through substantial growth in property taxes, user fees, and transfers from senior levels of government.
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