Edmonton mayor says council will work hard to bring tax increase down

Neither council, nor the public, has an appetite for a six per cent tax increase for the next three years, Mayor Don Iveson says. A report to be presented to council on Tuesday gives an estimate that states that in order to maintain the current level of service in the city, taxes will go up six per cent in 2016, 6.1 per cent in 2017 and 5.9 per cent in 2018. “We’ll work hard to bring those down,”

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