The city of Montreal has passed a resolution to increase the registration tax by 150 percent in Montreal starting next year.
Public transit funding has been a chronic, hot-button issue in major cities for years. In Montreal, a debate has been raging for some time on how to pay for providing this necessary service.
The city has found another source of revenue: raising taxes. Yesterday, a resolution to increase the registration tax was passed at a meeting of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal .Montreal mayor Valérie Plante, who is president of the CMM, said it had no choice given the shortfall of of funding from other resources.
Various solutions had previously been considered, including increasing fares, raising the gas tax, increasing vehicle registration fees and vehicle registration taxes, raising municipal taxes or creating a mileage tax.
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