Distribution of residential tax dollars:
Government of Alberta - 41.5%
The province calculates the local education or provincial tax rate for each municipality. You can learn more on how the provincial/education property tax is calculated, collected, and used on the Government of Alberta's website.
58% funds The City of Calgary services:
Operational Services - 14.6%
Operational Services operates and maintains our city’s valuable public infrastructure, natural spaces, ecosystems and parks, civic buildings and facilities, City vehicles and equipment and our utility corridors.
Calgary Police Service - 10.9%
The Calgary Police Service supports public safety by responding to emergencies, enforcing laws, investigating crimes and traffic collisions, providing support to victims of crime and trauma, ensuring large events and protests remain peaceful, and promoting safe driving. We also work closely with various partners to prevent crime and help people in crisis due to challenges with homelessness, mental health and addictions.
Community Services - 10.5%
Services connects and protects diverse individuals, communities, and businesses through strategies, education, programs, services, enforcement, and emergency response - directly and through partners - to create and sustain healthy, safe, caring and socially inclusive communities that people want to call home.
Contribution to Capital Investments - 9.0%
Property tax dollars collected for the capital budget are used to maintain and replace existing infrastructure, support infrastructure that contributes to service enhancements or build new infrastructure to support growth. Funds are also used for major city shaping projects.
Corporate Services - 7.0%
Corporate Services is a combination of executive offices and internal-facing departments that support The City to be a well-run organization and to enable the delivery of quality public service.
Other 6.5%:
Civic Partners - 2.7%
The City of Calgary invests in close to 500 external Partner organizations to deliver effective programs and services in targeted areas, develop and advance strategies, and construct, manage and operate City-owned assets. The City makes its most significant investments including operating and capital grants in Civic Partners, a category of Partner defined in the Investing in Partnerships Policy to meet the needs of Calgary and Calgarians.
Planning & Development Services - 1.4%
Planning & Development Services imagines and plans a great Calgary through policies that guide long-term planning, parameters for land development processes, strategies and actions to grow a resilient and sustainable city, enabling businesses to open and operate and ensuring Calgary’s buildings are safe to occupy.
Infrastructure Services - 1.4%
Infrastructure Services designs, builds and optimizes the municipal infrastructure needed for delivering safe communities, programs and services for all Calgarians, businesses and visitors.
Corporate Programs - 0.7%
Corporate Programs contains accounts and other financial structures to track common revenues (including franchise fees, general revenue, investment income and financial charges, as well as taxation revenues) which account for a significant portion of The City’s operating budget, and corporate costs and debt servicing (based on legislated requirements and/or Council policies including corporate requirements for capital financing; civic and intergovernmental affairs; corporate costs; employee benefits; regulatory affairs; and scholarships)
Council - 0.3%
Members of Council are elected officials responsible for setting the vision for Calgary and working with Administration to execute that vision and deliver services to Calgarians.
Audit Committee oversees the integrity of The City's annual financial statements, internal control processes, integrated risk management, the Whistle-blower Program and the performance of internal and external auditors.
The Integrity and Ethics Office assists Council members in meeting ethical standards of conduct when carrying out their public functions, including acting with integrity; avoiding conflicts of interest and improper use of influence; and arranging private affairs in a way that promotes public confidence.
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