Year: 1918
Summary: Assessment questionnaire and analysis of 100 replies received from Toronto citizens. Questions related to income assessment, taxation (the Business tax), and property assessment.
Year: 1924
Summary: An argument that the Toronto government is too decentralized and not efficient enough to discuss pension and other benefit expansions before reorganizing more efficiently.
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.
Year: 1925
Summary: Highlights the amount that Toronto car owners would pay when the province's new gasoline tax is implemented
Summary: Charts the rate of increase in property and business assessment and assessment of incomes, from 1909-1918.
Year: 1947
Summary: Discusses the taxation of governmentally owned public utilities and crown companies, and increased structural efficiency in the municipality.
Year: 1931
Summary: The "universal ingredient" in all bills, infrastructure, and services is taxation. The only person who does not pay taxes is one who does not pay bills, and therefore taxation is part of the cost of living.
Year: 1932
Summary: Examines the issue of Toronto's deficit. Advocates reducing estimated expenditures.
Year: 1940
Summary: Provides the estimated current revenues for the 1940 civic budget. Outlines expenditures and the tax rate. Raises questions as to whether all city departments are as efficient and as adequately mechanized as they could be.
Summary: The bureau highlights the fact that city has reduced the tax burden but argues that the city must still strive to provide services more efficiently.
Year: 1945
Summary: Provides civic budget figures for recent years. Notes that the measure of the tax rate does not always indicate the true tax burden, and that civic budget omissions can often lead to greater personal expenditures by the taxpayers.