Despite a number of councillors calling for the cancellation or suspension of Toronto's Vacant Home Tax Thursday, the program will live to see another year with city council ordering staff to revamp the process in the wake of a disastrous rollout which saw tens of thousands of property owners receive bills, even though their homes are lived in.
Despite a number of councillors calling for the cancellation or suspension of Toronto's Vacant Home Tax Thursday, the program will live to see another year with city council ordering staff to revamp the process in the wake of a disastrous rollout which saw tens of thousands of property owners receive bills, even though their homes are lived in.Before the vote, some councillors pushed to eliminate the program entirely.
The program started last year. Many of the people who received the bills this year said they didn’t realize they had to fill out a declaration every single year. "I had seniors calling me crying 'I got this tax bill,'" Nunziata said. "Just after we approved the budget this year over nine per cent , they get a nine to ten-thousand-dollar tax bill. You know, we screwed up. I mean, that's the bottom line. I think we should have put a pause on the program when we realized that there was a problem.""Toronto’s vacant home tax has been a complete fiasco," CTF Ontario Director Jay Goldberg said in a news release.
But during questioning from councillors Thursday, city staff confirmed nobody had been fired over the matter.
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