{"id":119,"date":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","slug":"calgary-considers-15-property-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/calgary-considers-15-property-tax-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Considers 15% Property Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/hong-wang\/calgarians-could-see-15-property-tax-hike-next-year-according-to-preliminary-numbers-remotion-videos-4455\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A preliminary city budget scenario proposed a ~15% municipal property tax increase next year for a typical Calgary home assessed at the median $706K.<br \/>\nWith projected utility fee changes included, homeowners would pay ~$52 more monthly next year, rising to ~$56 more monthly in the following year.<br \/>\nCity officials said added revenue was needed for inflation, population growth, and aging infrastructure, while emphasizing the released figures were preliminary, not final budget decisions.<br \/>\nOfficials said keeping tax growth below ~4% would reduce service levels, while ~4% would defer future pressure on infrastructure, emergency response, and transit growth.<br \/>\nA ~20% increase was presented as the level tied to improved city services, and city administration plans to bring council a draft budget in Mid-Q4.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary city budget scenario proposed a ~15% municipal property tax increase next year for a typical Calgary home assessed at the median $706K. With projected utility fee changes included, homeowners would pay ~$52 more monthly next year, rising to ~$56 more monthly in the following year. City officials said added revenue was needed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hongwang.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}