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: 1925
Summary: A list of Toronto's ratepayers associations, along with the proviso that informed citizens should become active in their local ratepayers associations
Summary: An analysis of annual expenditure and comparison to previous year. Warns that without a more rational, scientific accounting of expenditures, the city may not be able to keep decreasing municipal expenditures.
Summary: Highlights the amount that Toronto car owners would pay when the province's new gasoline tax is implemented
Summary: Comparison of public expenditures on services and ordinary taxes in Toronto and Montreal. Also takes into account total municipal debt for each city.
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: Highlights the high level of spending on salaries in the public service and the need for improved efficiency
Summary: Argues that the tax burden is increasing while the ability of residents to pay is not, and the municipality is not being run efficiently enough.
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: 1923
Summary: Outlines issues of proposed tax reform and jurisdictional comparison with other places around the world, with the conclusion from the bureau that changing tax schemes does not necessarily reduce the tax burden.
Summary: Argues that expenditures have grown even faster than population growth, as have the cost of services and the number of services provided, while cities have failed to improve efficiency and budget planning.
Summary: Outline of the city as an employer: selection for work, benefits, flexibility in matching skills and jobs within the system, meritocracy
Summary: Call for restricting expenditure per capita and queries about the possibility of increasing city revenue. The answer to the question in the title - when it is paid.
Summary: Historical analysis of tax rates and tax burden from 1855-1922.
Year: 1922
Summary: Analysis of tax burden per capita and the proportion dedicated to education vs. other expenditure.
Summary: Outlines the tax burden and the implications of the new budget in 1922.
Summary: Outlines the relationship between level of taxation and dominance of industry. Argues that high taxes are a great threat to industrialization.
Summary: Outlines per capita debt burden especially with regards to education, and warns that increasing public debt without population growth can curtail Toronto's borrowing power.
Summary: Warns that public debt will increase unless some public works projects are delayed. Highlghts per capita debt burden especially with regards to education.
Summary: Analysis of annual budget and optimism that some past failures will be corrected with better accountability and more accurate estimates.
Summary: Outlines inequities in tax collection and need for review of taxation business profits
Summary: Highlights the need for better coordination and budget planning between the different functions in the municipality.
Summary: Suggests that earlier estimates and earlier tax collection is necessary in order to save the city money.
Year: 1921
Summary: Tabulated comparison of prices paid by the city of Toronto and related bodies for supplies in common use. Suggests concentration of purchasing efforts applied through a centralized price-getting authority in co-operation with departmental ordering agents.
Summary: Advocates the speeding up of Estimates and the establishment of an earlier date for the payment of the first instalment of taxes. Call on the citizens to vote/act on these issues in the upcoming election.
Summary: Statistics showing the increase in per capita taxes in Toronto from 1915-1921, along with planned expenditures from taxation.
Summary: Advocates an economical approach to expenditure in Toronto.
Summary: City budget estimates and analysis of revenues and debts from publically owned utilities for 1921.
Year: 1920
Summary: Statistics on increases in total estimated expenditures by functions, and object of expenditure (1916-1919). Also lists per capita variations.
Summary: Outline of suggested stages in preparing and passing budget estimates, and list of advantages this would secure.