Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services

CHART 18.2 Assessment and Tax Growth, 2000–10
Per Cent
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
113
70
Assessment Municipal Taxes Education Taxes
Source: Ontario Ministry of Finance.
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Chapter 18: Revenue Integrity
The level of education property tax revenues since 2000 has decreased by 10 per cent in real
terms. At the same time, funding for education has increased. These factors have contributed
to a significant decrease in education property tax revenues as a share of education
expenditures, from 44 per cent in 1998–99 to 30 per cent in 2010–11. If the property tax
component of the Ontario Energy and Property Tax Credit had been included, as it is in
provincial reporting of education property tax revenue, the share of education expenditures
funded by education property tax revenues would have been even lower.
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