Backgrounder: Every Nova Scotia municipality to benefit from federal Gas Tax Fund transfer

Backgrounder

This month, the Government of Canada delivered the first of two annual $27 million federal Gas Tax Fund (GTF) installments to Nova Scotia. In total, the province will be provided over $55 million this year through the fund. The funding, which flows through the provincial government to all of its communities on a per capita basis, is now available to support communities’ local infrastructure projects.

The following table indicates this year’s federal Gas Tax Fund allocation for each of Nova Scotia’s communities.

Amherst	$679,621
Annapolis	$829,688
Annapolis Royal	$52,206
Antigonish (Town)	$307,195
Antigonish (Municipality)	$632,899
Argyle	$341,266
Barrington	$329,242
Berwick	$150,921
Bridgewater	$671,835
Cape Breton	$6,471,870
Chester	$585,327
Clare	$367,819
Clark's Harbour	$43,618
Colchester	$1,687,564
Cumberland	$1,189,892
Digby (Town)	$171,745
Digby	$369,719
Guysborough	$358,747
Halifax	$25,434,210
Hants East	$1,069,706
Hants West	$714,454
Inverness	$671,790
Kentville	$447,869
Kings	$2,094,338
Lockeport	$39,467
Lunenburg (Town)	$199,122
Lunenburg (Municipality)	$1,190,315
Mahone Bay	$79,481
Middleton	$136,565
Mulgrave	$54,329
New Glasgow	$773,603
Oxford	$90,600
Pictou (Town)	$218,741
Pictou (Municipality)	$1,024,068
Port Hawkesbury	$234,809
Region of Queens	$669,899
Richmond	$468,338
Shelburne (Town)	$128,206
Shelburne (Municipality)	$234,737
St. Mary's	$140,307
Stellarton	$325,136
Stewiacke	$80,362
Trenton	$152,263
Truro	$931,926
Victoria	$421,131
Westville	$223,139
Windsor	$241,943
Wolfville	$316,899
Yarmouth (Town)	$574,621
Yarmouth (Municipality)	$481,423

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Date modified:: 2017-07-24