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