OPP bill pushes up taxes in Minden Hills

Obscenely high and unsustainable policing costs. OPP bills are destroying communities its officers are supposed to protect. Apparent self-interest is cloaked in the guise of public safety needs. Where is the political outrage while OPP costs continue to climb? Who is going to bring policing costs in this province under control?

OPP bill pushes up taxes in Minden Hills

Postby Thomas » Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:59 am

Municipal taxes will increase 5.9 per cent in Minden Hills in 2015

Councillors passed the tax rate bylaw for the year at their April 9 meeting.

An increase of $245,000 in OPP costs for the township this year is responsible for 4.13 per cent of that increase, the township passing the provincially-mandated increase directly to taxpayers.

A new OPP billing formula initiated by the province last year will see Minden Hills’s OPP bill grow by 57 per cent, from $1.2 million to $1.9 million, during a five-year phase-in period.

This year, its bill will increase from $1.2 million to more than $1.4 million.

Growth is responsible for 1.17 per cent of the tax increase, inflation 0.6 per cent.

Property taxes at the upper-tier level will increase 2.7 per cent for the year.

Lower tier taxes represent 44.67 per cent of total taxes; the upper tier 26.39; and education 28.94.

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