Homeowners in some of Winnipeg’s poorest neighbourhoods could be hardest-hit by this spring’s Winnipeg School Division property tax increase — to the tune of 68.5% in increases since 2011.
The WSD is set to increase school taxes by 3.6% this year, after hikes of 6.8% and 7.8% in the last two years, though the increase has yet to be put to a vote.
That adds up to an 19.3% increase for the average homeowner.
But very few Winnipeg homes will face precisely that increase, because school taxes are indexed to assessed property value, which has been going up at a higher rate in traditionally low-income catchments of the division — like Weston, the West End, the North End, and central Winnipeg — as opposed to North River Heights and Wolseley.
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