Not-for-Profit Organizations in danger…
Questions to the City of Montreal's
Candidates-for-Mayor
until the election
and the new Mayor since the election
Between 2001 and 2005, more than 1,000 NPOs
of
Since 2003, all these organizations have been affected by the municipal decisions that lead them to lose the exemption from a tax because it was given a new name, hence being obliged to pay for it under its new name.
In consideration of the municipal
elections, more
than 1,000 NPOs of Montreal
and the
hundreds
of thousands of citizens they
are made of (refer to "
Tax Exempt NPOs Regrouping")
are eager to know whether the municipal administration who will be responsible
for managing the common good and the public interest after November 6th will
correct this inconsistent situation which penalizes the NPOs
that are or will be recognized by the CMQ.
Because we
don’t want to be
led in this way.
Two questions from NPOs addressed
to the City of
NPOs demand precise, clear and elaborated answers:
-1) For the NPOs that are or will be
recognized by the Commission Municipale du Québec, or in the event of the
dissolution of the CMQ, by any other structure inheriting the authority of
granting tax exemption, is your administration going to sustainably
reinstate the effectiveness of the business tax exemption, by applying it,
one way or another, in a form or another, to
the tax on non-residential immovables that replaced it ?
-2) In the event that a regulatory
technicality prevents the municipal administration from transferring the
business tax exemption to non-residential immovables, is your administration going
to debate this issue and negotiate with Quebec’s government, with as much passion as was shown in the negotiation
of both the business tax abolition and its subsequent advantages, until the
power to abolish it was obtained ?
