NIPAWIN — The Town of Nipawin has reduced the budgeted tax levy increase for property from three per cent to 2.4 per cent.
This change, made at council on April 23, was due to a reporting error in the previous budget.
The town noted and reported to council that a duplication of $28,000 had been made to the budget allocation for the delivery of Visitor Information Services.
Due to this information, council resolved to amend the budget accordingly, and reduced the tax increase by the percentage that would generate $28,000.
“It was an honest error and corrected at the earliest opportunity,” said Barry Elliott, Nipawin’s administrator.
The next step is for council to discuss how the tax increase will be applied. These conversations will take place in May.
“They’ll take a look at the mill rate for the remainder of the tax levy and then they make some decisions about how they’re going to allocate that across the different individual tax classifications whether it’s residential, commercial, industrial, those sorts of things.”
