New Democrats have a fresh idea – the Freeze Till Sale property assessment model. The new model - put forward by the NDP's Task Force on Assessment and Property Tax - would freeze the assessed value of your home at its purchase price for as long as you own your home. It would replace the McGuinty Liberals' unfair, arbitrary and punishing property assessment system - and make property assessment fair, predictable and easier to understand.

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To the Legislature of Ontario

Whereas Ontarians are angry over the volatility of the property tax system, the near impossibility to predict one’s assessment or to understand how it is arrived at, the patent unfairness of assessments and that the current system leaves many home owners worried they may be forced to sell their homes.

Whereas Ontarians are not complaining about paying taxes - we are complaining about a system which is volatile, unfair unpredictable and punishing.

Whereas changes are needed that will make Ontario’s property tax system stable, understandable, fair, and sensitive to home owners struggling on low incomes.

Therefore, we, the undersigned, support the following measures from the NDP’s “Freeze ‘til Sale” plan to bring fairness to Ontario’s property tax system: