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Originally Posted by The Bess
couldn't the city designate the downtown as a special ares setting up borders and taxing empty lots that had buildings on them at the same rate as ones with buildings or does that sound to much like communism
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The tax assessment rules are set provincially by SAMA. Municipalities are not allowed to make up their own rules. Municipalities can allow exemptions and they can set the general mill rate. Otherwise they are pretty handcuffed as stated by skyhigh.
I agree there should be more flexibility to tax these lots at higher rates, especially brownfields that can sit idle for decades.