Kneehill County raises taxes

Kneehill councillors approved the 2024 tax rate bylaw at their regular meeting on April 23.

In an interview with the ECA Review May 7 Reeve Ken King confirmed Kneehill County council approved tax increases: residential property will see a four per cent increase, farmland a 17.5 per cent increase and non-residential a 3.5 per cent increase.

The reeve noted original tax increases were substantially smaller, but Kneehill County had a problem: when school requisition tax was calculated last year the provincial government missed $156 million in assessment.

Later, the provincial government apparently found its mistake, corrected it and took another roughly $600,000 from Kneehill County, money which the municipality wasn’t expecting to lose.

Stu Salkeld
Local Journalism Initiative reporter
ECA Review

About the author

Stu Salkeld

Stu Salkeld, who has upwards of 28 years of experience in the Alberta community newspaper industry, is now covering councils and other news in the Stettler region and has experience working in the area as well.

He has joined the ECA Review as a Local Journalism Initiative Journalist.

Stu earned his two-year diploma in print journalism from SAIT in Calgary from 1993 to ’95 and was raised in Oyen, Alta., one of the communities within the ECA Review’s coverage area.