The City of Calgary has sent the Government of Alberta an invoice for $10 million in an effort to recoup the costs of collecting the provincial share of property taxes.

Billing the province for those costs was unanimously approved by city council back in March.

“This invoice is a symbol of fairness and accountability,” Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek told reporters Monday. “If the province is insistent on downloading responsibilities, it must also accept the cost.”

According to Gondek, the $10 million is reflective of the “proportional costs of labour and materials” required for the City of Calgary to collect this year’s provincial share, also known as the education property tax.

In its budget this year, the provincial government increased its requisition of property taxes which equat

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