Tuesday, March 19, 2019

ONTARIO'S SKY HIGH GOVERNMENT FEES

  The  Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO)  notes that government fees have been rising in many cases well above the rate of inflation. One mining fee climbed by 1,371%.
   Motorists may have noticed the pinch over the past decade – the FAO found that between 2011-12 and 2017-18, vehicle and driver registration fee revenue grew at an average annual rate of 10.1%.
   “In 2017-18, the province generated $2.9 billion in service fee revenue,” the FAO commentary said. “Vehicle and driver registration fees, at $1.9 billion, made up 65% of all fee revenue.” The most common in 2017-18 were Highway 407 East tolls on the publicly operated portion with 11.9 million transactions, followed by licence plate stickers with 6.8 million transactions in southern Ontario and vehicle permits with 3.3 million transactions.

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