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“Inasmuch as the Provincial Property Tax (sometimes known as the Business Education Tax) is the most inequitable tax in the country, with varying discriminatory tax rates across the Province

And inasmuch as equalizing the tax across the Province, as previously scheduled, would delay elimination of the provincial deficit by only 5 weeks;

And inasmuch as equalization will provide significant relief to the provincial business sector and will assist many small businesses to thrive and contribute to province wide employment

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TABIA AGM 2013 Tax Report
TAX COMMITTEE REPORT 2013 TABIA AGM

I usually try to start my reports with a bit of humour, not that it's ever easy to find anything funny about taxation. But this year it seems impossible. I snaffled a few items from the internet which were originally written in jest, but the irony is that today in 2013, what was formerly considered a joke has become a reality.

JOKE: A Canadian can consider himself a success when it costs him more to support the government than to support a family.

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Another Victim of a Flawed Commercial Property Tax System
Toronto, Ontario - April 29, 2013

Excerpted from a letter to the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) and the Minister of Finance

    I purchased this property in April of 2007 for $535k. A few months later I was informed by MPAC that it's new value was $748k - an increase of 47% in 7 months at the height of the recession and at a time when the road I was on was under construction (this lasted three years and the frequent shutdowns of part or all of the street and sometimes even the sidewalks forced me to lay off all of my staff - 15 businesses on the street closed during this period). You can imagine my amusement when customers asked if businesses were being compensated for the loss of traffic during the construction - I told them only if you consider a 50% tax increase "compensation".

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Pride celebrations take over the Lakeshore this month
Etobicoke’s Lakeshore community is set for a colourful makeover this month, as residents and area businesses ramp up preparations for the area’s first ever Pride celebrations.
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Simplifying the parking headache
Fed up with persistent parking troubles on Eglinton Avenue and Yonge Street, local business associations and a councillor are looking to make it a little easier on drivers who visit the area’s busiest commercial strips. 
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Five Free Things in Toronto
The city streets rock with life, commerce

By CHARMAINE NORONHA
The Associated Press:The Kansas City Star

Toronto's Harbourfront Centre hosts thousands of events each year, many of them free. And the York Quay Center and the Power Plant have changing arts and photo exhibits year-round for no entry fee.

If you’re visiting Toronto, you can’t help but notice construction cranes, new condos and other signs of gentrification, like restaurants and bars popping up in new hipster ’hoods. But despite the upscale crawl, many of the city’s best attractions are tried and true mainstays that can be experienced for free.

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Environmental groups return nature to tree-lined Junction street
In commemoration of National Tree Day, several environmental advocacy groups have come together to free four large honey locust trees in the Junction from their pavement prison earlier this week.
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Property Tax Update 2012

Was It All Just a Cruel Hoax?

The business education tax (BET), a heavy property tax which all of us are paying either directly or indirectly, was imposed at different rates in different municipalities.Prior to 2007, it was a far heavier tax in Toronto than in the surrounding municipalities.It was making it more difficult for Toronto businesses to compete against businesses in Mississauga, Pickering, Markham etc, where the rates were much lower.

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Ontario Budget Smacks Toronto Business

PRESS RELEASE - March 2012

In its 2007 Budget, the McGuinty Government promised to level the Business Education Tax across Ontario. It undertook to implement a gradual reduction to achieve a provincially uniform tax rate of 1.6% of assessed value by 2014. The 2012 Budget freezes that program, leaving Toronto business paying a rate well in excess of that imposed on surrounding municipalities.

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Property Tax Update 2011
Have you noticed a huge reduction in your property tax bill recently?  Over the past five years, three tax relief programs were introduced.  Two were implemented by the City and one by the Province.  Two of them are being phased in over a lengthy period of time.  One is fully in effect now.  If you haven't noticed any relief on the bottom line of your tax bill, this article will explain why.
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Think Big - Buy Local

My Neighbours Shop Local for fresh produce and support their community

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ACCESSIBLE MAINSTREET

Accessible Mainstreet

Simple and inexpensive solutions
to broaden your customer base.

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Making your customer service accessible

Are you in compliance?

January 1, 2012  new legislation came into effect

Go to Accessibility for Ontarians.com for more information

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Workplace Safety
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Presentation

New Legislation every business owner should be aware of
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Tax Relief!

We and our members want relief from high commercial property taxes. Find out more and help spread the word by downloading, printing and distributing our Tax Posters.
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"A thriving main street is the heart of a community, supported by the effort of the people who live and work there."

TABIA is The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areasand operates as a non-profit umbrella organization, representing the City of Toronto's 74 Business Improvement Areas (BIAs)who in turn represent more than 35,000 business and property owners.

SAVE MONEY WHILE GREENING YOUR BUSINESS!
greenTbiz was developed by the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) to deliver programs that result in economically and environmentally favourable outcomes for Toronto BIAs and their members.

greenTbiz would like to invite all BIA members to participate in our free programs!

Check out our website at www.greenTtbiz.org
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