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economist suntribune around theregion thursday jan 102002 11 assessment growth provides some relief for region taxpayers from page 10 to be onerous for the york region taxpayer mitigating these spiraling costs for this year at least is a substantial five per cent increase in assessment growth that represents some 20 million in new revenues for the region and helps offset the burden thats passed on to taxpayers cousens recognizes this kind of growth cant be banked on forever in fact regional staff predicts a lower rate of growth in yorks future assessment base that means an austere approach to future budget ing preliminary figures call for a 18 per cent tax hike in 2003 and a one per cent increase in 2004 those targets are attain- able if the region follows a business plan it has been working on cousens said we have to do everything we can to scale back our expectations and our costs he said daversa argues better planning by the region in the past would have helped avoid a tax increase 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