About this Event
This event features two presentations on current issues in municipal finance in Canada. The first presentation draws on an original dataset covering 171 municipalities across Canada to examine the relationship between non-residential property tax rates, the non-residential property tax base, and local economic development. It also considers the rationale for higher tax rates on non-residential properties and the extent to which these rates may be justified.
The second presentation examines the rationale and main recommendations of the recent Jérôme-Forget and Marceau report on municipal finance in Québec. It will provide an overview of the context in which the report was commissioned and discuss several of its key recommendations, with particular attention to proposed changes to infrastructure grants that would link funding to municipal tax effort.
Speaker
François Vaillancourt is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Université de Montréal and a Fellow of CIRANO. He holds a PhD in Economics from Queen’s University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009. His research and publications span a range of policy issues in public economics and the economics of language. He has held visiting and fellowship positions at institutions including the Australian National University, the University of Toronto, École normale supérieure de Cachan, and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He has also served as a consultant to the governments of Québec and Canada, as well as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Refreshments will be provided at the event.
Event venue & nearby stays
55 St George St suite 853, 55 Saint George Street, Toronto, Canada
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.