Year: 1925
Summary: A list of Toronto's ratepayers associations, along with the proviso that informed citizens should become active in their local ratepayers associations
Year: 1973
Summary: Investigates the effects of property tax on land use planning. Suggests possible alternative tax structures for Ontario.
Year: 1966
Summary: Calculation of the level of revenue lost due to property tax exemptions.
Year: 1926
Summary: Argues that better budget planning and accountability are needed as well as a reform to the government system including abolishing wards and improving the civic service.
Year: 1933
Summary: Outlines the effects of the Great Depression on the citizen's ability to pay taxes and what should be done with the tax code in order to address this problem.
Summary: Argues that civic expenditure should be reduced, to accommodate the effects of the Great Depression on citizen's ability to pay taxes.
Year: 1957
Summary: The Bureau indicates its support of a temporary increase in tax rates.
Year: 1951
Summary: Analysis of Board of Education structure, authority and expenditure in light of public controversy about their current level of expenditure.
Year: 1952
Summary: Examines capital borrowing, the controls on it and the uses for such funding.
Summary: Argues there is need to reduce public expenditure.
Year: 1948
Summary: Discusses presenting budget estimates prior to the elections, as an act of good governance and accountability.
Year: 1949
Summary: Better accountability in budget making requires more transparency in information and more clarity regarding tax assessments.
Summary: Opposition to income tax hike that could cause tax flight and impose uneven burdens on different municipalities and between provinces.
Year: 1941
Summary: This open letter demands retrenchments in light of the war effort, and calls for expneditures on supplies and equipment to be reduced. Also calls for the size of the city government to be reduced.
Year: 1943
Summary: Highlights recent debt charges, surplus, and provincial subsidies in the 1943 budget. Also provides some draft estimates of expenditures and revenue. Advocates for calculated spending in war time.
Year: 1932
Summary: Examines the issue of Toronto's deficit. Advocates reducing estimated expenditures.
Summary: Describes equitable means of effecting salary and wage reductions so as to increase city revenue by applying reductions on restored salary schedules.
Year: 1934
Summary: Analysis of problems in 1934 budget such as lack of balance and misrepresented opinion of expert consultant.
Year: 1940
Summary: Suggests that the expected tax increase due to spending costs and debt would be a mistake at a time of war.
Year: 1924
Summary: Highlights the high level of spending on salaries in the public service and the need for improved efficiency
Year: 1936
Summary: Objection to changing the fiscal year cycle from December 31 to December 15, which is related to the plan to change the election date to mid-December.
Year: 1937
Summary: Suggests that the current highest taxes in the history of the city are a result of not following the Bureau's advice in 1933.
Summary: The Annual Report of the Finance Commissioner should be studied by all citizens. There is a continued necessity to restrict capital expenditures, and borrow money only as required.
Summary: Urges citizens to contact municipal representatives about the issue of civic expenditure.
Summary: Argues that the economic tides appear to be turning, but cautions that the city cannot already return to its previous expenditure levels due to lack of fiscal stability after the years of depression.
Year: 1935
Summary: This Open Letter suggests that there are only two ways to balance the budget: increasing revenue or cutting spending.
Summary: This Open Letter objects to raising tax rate and calls for finding other ways to reduce expenditure.
Summary: Outlines the responsibilities for managing and auditing the budget within the municipal government.
Year: 1938
Summary: In this Open Letter, The Bureau claims that proposed city legislation to change the calculations of sinking fund rates will actually reduce the city's ability to handle debt.
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.