Year: 1966
Summary: Explains the complex residential assessment function in Metro, so that ratepayers can gain greater understanding of the valuation and appeal procedures.
Year: 1959
Summary: Bureau successfully advocated changes in legislation to end tax exemptions to property owners.
Year: 1960
Summary: Criticism of the debt and borrowing policy of Toronto's Metropolitan Federation.
Year: 1948
Summary: Considers the role of the Board of Assessors responsible for re-examining tax properties in the city.
Year: 1947
Summary: Describes the need for fair reassessment of private and business property tax rates, and a better functioning Board of Control.
Summary: Suggests that assessment law and assessment practice should be modified to ensure equity in real property assessment.
Year: 1970
Summary: Study of the completed basic reassessment at market value in Mississauga. Explains the procedures and difficulties involved in market value assessment.
Year: 1918
Summary: Four test questions as to the desirability of any mode taxation: is it equitable; is it convenient to collect; can it be collected economically; and is it conducive to the public benefit? Explores the application of these questions to the Ontario business tax, with the conclusion that it is unsatisfactory.
Summary: News Brief about the Bureau's reports, work, annual meeting, internal elections, appointing of members and upcoming surveys.
Summary: Inequitable taxation is worse than high and just taxation, because it gives unfair advantages to certain parties over others. A Provincial Commission for the Equalization of Assessments is a potential solution.