07-05-2019, 03:25 PM
(07-05-2019, 02:17 PM)jeffster Wrote:(07-05-2019, 01:16 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Students will tend to pay little to no income tax. They will pay HST the same as everyone else. And contrary to many people's perception, they (indirectly) pay property taxes -- which are used to fund transit -- the same as any other tenant of a rental apartment or house. (Possible exception: I don't know whether university-owned residences are exempt from property taxes.)
Well, even if that were true, most students, I believe, do not live in university owned apartments. So technically, it a round about way, they do pay property tax. I'd only imagine that it would be close to $200/month per unit -- with 4 students. But I don't have hard numbers to back up anything I said.
That's why I said "exception".