The City of Calgary is hiking property taxes by 8.9 percent in 2025 after the provincial government in its recent budget announced plans to collect more in property taxes to cover rising education costs.
At its council meeting on March 18, Calgary city council approved the increase following discussions on the yearly property taxes the city, like other municipalities in Alberta, must collect on behalf of the province in addition to its own municipal property taxes.
This year’s budget provided for new provincial investment in K–12 education in order to address significant enrolment growth due to a population surge in recent years.
Overall for Calgarians, that equates to a 6.4 percent property tax hike broadly speaking—which breaks down to an 8.9 percent increase for residential property owners and 2.8 percent for non-residential property owners….