Vancouver Sun Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Page: D1 / Front By: Don Cayo Beware the backlash in fixing business taxes: A blueprint to spend less can be found just down the road in Surrey If B.C.’s high-tax cities — and that’s most of them — want to give their business communities a decent break, the [...]

Vancouver Sun Friday, February 16, 2007 Page: H1 / Front By: Don Cayo How did municipal taxes get so skewed?: Every time a modest commercial block falls to a condo tower, the city budget suffers This year’s property tax bill for the old Brodie Brush Building at Cambie and Smithe will likely be twice as [...]

Vancouver Sun Friday, February 16, 2007 Page: A13 By: Harvey Enchin Budget blues: Vancouver’s municipal finances are conducted on a basis of tax increases into infinity. It’s time to try something else A line from the City of Vancouver’s interim budget suggests much of what is wrong with municipal finances: “Council needs to assess the [...]

Business in Vancouver February 13-19, 2007 Issue 903 Fair business tax beat goes on in the City of Vancouver Thumbs up: to the Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition and its persistent equitable business tax dirge. It might not be a top of the pops number for most Vancouver citizens, but it’s a message that needs to [...]

Vancouver Sun Thursday, February 8, 2007 Page: C1 / FRONT By: Don Cayo Cities across B.C. take bigger tax bite out of business Vancouverites who are embarrassed when business groups finger the city as an unrepentant tax-gouger might be relieved to learn there are worse places to do business in B.C. But not very many. [...]

The Globe and Mail Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Page: B5 Wendy Stueck and Elizabeth Church Vancouver businesses call for a tax break Coalition warns city that it is ‘shooting itself in the foot’ with inequitable rates VANCOUVER and TORONTO — Commercial taxpayers in Vancouver are carrying more than their fair share of the city’s tax [...]