Okotoks: Councillors defend move to hike commercial rates

Okotoks town council’s move to ease the financial burden on homeowners by increasing taxes on businesses will end up hurting the people they wanted to save, says a local business man.

“The consumer pays in the end and to a large extent those same consumers are the ones they’re trying to save from a tax increase,” said Okotoks realtor John Fraser.

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