While tweeting about how much I loved this @colbycosh article, I discovered that he & I grew up in the same rural '… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Author: Carla Putnam Kerr
Next week in Carla’s #yegpr adventures: holding a sign on a stick during a huge media scrum. I would say odds of no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The impact is substantial for a small muni like High River. It hits me a bit in the feels to contemplate that they'… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Although the official stat is that about 170 munis receive GIPOT, many of the Crown assets are concentrated in a fe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
One really interesting thing that came out of the 2019 provincial budget was a reduction in these grants in place o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And although these properties are technically exempt from paying property tax, the AB gov provides grants to munis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is the long way of saying that provincially-owned assets sit within municipalities, or even on land owned by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"…Although Crown-owned properties are exempt from assessment and therefore exempt from taxation, the Province of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
GIPOT, which some pronounce as "gee pot" (yowza), stands for Grants in Place of Taxes. The official wording from th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Hello, happy Wednesday, and welcome to the latest edition of Carla's Hot Takes On #ABpoli Things That Seem Boring,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…