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The Alberta government is moving to fix one of the great taxation inequities in the province.

Rachel Notley’s government will soon propose changes to more fairly share $1.9 billion in industrial taxes between the province’s cash-poor towns and cities and its cash-rich counties.

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“We’ve signalled pretty strongly that we are not leaving collaboration up to chance, that it is not OK that there are such hard lines imposing significant disparities across the province,” Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee says.

Multiple measures to ensure a more co-operative approach between towns and cities and counties will be part of the new Municipal Government Act, which will be introduced in the legislature at the end of May, Larivee says.

Alberta’s towns and cities have been badly treated on taxes for decade. The counties have enjoyed an almost unfathomable taxation bounty, courtesy of their formerly powerful Progressive Conservative friends.