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Mary Hutchings, 70, is one of those homeowners.
She lives on a fixed income in a home valued at $43,000 in Erickson,
Man., just over 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
She lives on a fixed income in a home valued at $43,000 in Erickson,
Man., just over 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
She
learned this spring she’ll have to pay $500 more a year in property
taxes — a dramatic increase to the roughly $250 she paid in combined
municipal and school taxes before.
“I was immediately
panic-stricken because I had budgeted for my usual taxes, and I just
didn’t know how I was going to swing it,” she said. “The
provincial government has essentially taken money from the people who
are least likely to afford it.”