Business owners watch closely as Edmonton projects 2018 tax increase

Edmonton officials will release the city’s projected 2018 tax increase Thursday afternoon and it’s expected business owners will be watching closely.
The city is on the last year of a three-year budget where, going into this budget season, the increase for 2018 was pegged at 4.8 per cent. Last summer, officials told council they were still trying to whittle that down.
Thursday afternoon, they’ll announce if they were successful.
A 4.8 per cent increase works out to roughly $100