Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would be interested in seeing the differences, because I did pursue it to a certain degree in the previous Assembly, and actually requested the Minister bring some harmonization between tax-based and non-tax-based communities. There is a big difference there. Some of that is taken into levies in a community. Non-tax-based communities have grown quite large in some areas and they would rather not switch to a tax-based community because they seem to lose some of the funding transfers that happen, and as well do not have to actually do their own taxes and service notice to their own constituents, in that sense. I am interested in seeing the difference there because in the previous Assembly, I heard numbers of $250 a year for some taxes in non-tax-based municipalities. I can compare it to my own community. I cannot compare it to other communities like Fort Smith or Norman Wells.
I believe there needs to be some shifting here on both sides. At the same time, I understand there is a different level of service that plays a part in that. That is acceptable. Even if it is in the region, maybe some other regions compared to one another. I know a piece of land in Yellowknife can go for $70,000, but in Inuvik when they did the new sub-division, they were selling a lot that was unfilled. The larger lots were up in the $60,000 range. Then you had to fill the thing, because if you did not, you would sink. That was very expensive. Before you can even put a house down, you have paid someone else another $10,000 or $20,000 just to fill the thing because of the permafrost.
Those kinds of cost come into it. It all impacts. The more you put into it, the more your taxes go up and you are penalized because of the jurisdiction you live in. That is the sort of comparison I was looking for in costs to an individual when it came to paying the actual tax. Thank you.