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Budget Needs to Tackle Widening 'Fairness Gap' | Toronto & GTA | News STARTING FROM $0.99/MONTH* SUN+ LOGIN SUBSCRIBERS GET FULL ACCESS *Certain conditions apply DRIVING HOMES CLASSIFIEDS CAREERS OBITUARIES SEARCH WEDNESDAY JULY 13 2016 HOME NEWS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT LIFE TECH MONEY TRAVEL OPINION PHOTOS VIDEOS SUNSHINE GIRL MORE TORONTO & GTA ONTARIO CANADA WORLD WEIRD ARCHIVES NEWS TORONTO & GTA Budget needs to tackle widening 'fairness gap' BY MARYAM SHAH, TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 04:28 PM EDT | UPDATED: SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 04:29 PM EDT TORONTO - Advocates say the city’s budget process for 2017 needs to address a widening “fairness gap” that hits low-income families while sparing the owners of homes and cars. Commitment2Community raised the issue ahead of this week’s council meeting where councillors will address Toronto’s long-term financial direction. One campaign representative — Gideon Forman, an analyst with the David Suzuki Foundation — said a lot of councillors “just don’t realize” there’s a fairness gap in who has had to pay more Toronto City Hall (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun) over the years for city services. Taxes such as those imposed on alcoholic beverages or charging fees for vehicle registration stickers are “no big Article deal” in other cities around the world, he added. Recommend 0 “They realize that when a city reaches a certain size — about 2 million, 2.5 million — you cannot rely just on the property tax,” Forman stressed. Tweet Sean Meagher, executive director of Social Planning Toronto, said property tax 1 rates in Toronto have not increased with the rate of inflation over the past six years, yet user fees for transit and recreational services have gone up. 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