Alberta government asked by municipalities to pay its property taxes [Video]

Edmonton’s mayor is, once again, asking the United Conservative Party government to pay its full share of property taxes on provincial buildings.

Premier Danielle Smith said Friday at the Alberta Municipalities convention she’ll consider it.

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Mayor Amarjeet Sohi says until the province pays, taxpayers will continue to pick up the tab of millions of deferred dollars from the province.

“They owe us $90 million,” Sohi said Friday of the approximate amount the province owes the city after five years of deferred provincial property taxes.

“That is a huge amount of money that we have to collect from the rest of the property tax base in Edmonton, and that is not fair.”

In 2019, a Jason Kenney-led UCP government reduced the amount of property taxes paid by the province to 75 per cent. A year later, …