PPGC67H3 Lecture Notes - Fuel Tax, Sancton, Global City
21 Jul 2013
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And the cities that come out on top will be those that fare best in terms of what florida refers to as the three ts : technology (as measured by innovation and high-tech industry concentration. Infrastructure deficit is draining canadian cities" competitive advantage - -125 billion annually: offloading services directly to municipalities = ontario social services and social housing expenditures, upper-tier governments reduced their own expenditures in services that impacted localities. Inelastic revenue base: municipal revenues have not kept pace. Local authorities in germany and switzerland obtain about 80% of their tax revenues from income taxes, and only 15 percent from property taxes. While both canadian and us cities rely heavily on property taxes as a taxation source, canada"s cities rely more heavily than us cities on property taxes . 92. 7 percent, compared with 72. 8 percent for the united states.
