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Transit taxes could rise more than six per cent in 2020 as the City of Ottawa predicts more LRT “transition” expenses and shifts money to offset a cancelled plan to boost the provincial gas-tax transfer.

It means, if eventually approved by council, the owner of the average urban home in Ottawa would pay $42 more in transit taxes in 2020, part of a projected $109 increase in all property taxes. Police taxes would increase $18 for that average urban home and taxes to pay for the rest of the city departments would increase $49 on that tax bill.

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The city this week released reports on the budget directions for 2020 and the status of the 2019 budget.

The 2020 budget report calls for transit taxes to rise 6.4 per cent.

The city predicts it will need more money next year — over and above what it had been planning — to pay for expenses tied to the Confederation Line LRT, which is scheduled to open on Sept. 14, 2019.