The tax increases imposed on Montrealers by the central city will be limited to an average of 1.8% next year, Valérie Plante’s administration announced Thursday. But this increase does not take into account local tax increases that the districts could decree.
The administration decided to reveal its intentions regarding municipal taxes earlier this year. Usually, she reveals the tax increases when the City’s budget is tabled at the end of November.
“It was important for us to announce the tax rate for the central city as soon as possible, to reassure citizens and offer them more predictability,” indicated the president of the executive committee, Luc Rabouin, by press release.
Montreal will limit tax increases under the control of the municipal council to the real inflation rate observed last August, i.e. 1.8%, which makes the administration say that it is respecting its electoral commitment to limit increases to inflation. . The central city’s share represents 87% of the bill, but taxpayers can expect their district to increase its local tax.
Last year, for example, the average tax increases for Montrealers in the central city amounted to 4%. Which, combined with district taxes, resulted in an overall increase of 4.9%. The district of Anjou had notably imposed a local tax increase of 2.9%, pushing the increase to 6.3%. In Pierrefonds-Roxboro, the increase in the local tax reached 1.6%, for a total of 7.2%.
Further details will follow.