Lindsay Tedds, University of Calgary

Research

Municipal Property Tax Inequality Residential Property Assessment Systemic Bias Decomposition basic income gender-based violence economic security

Latest funding

Don't miss out on poverty reduction in Canada: How material deprivation indicators improve social policy design and evaluation
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$278,518
Property Tax Equity Assessment (ProperTEA): (In)Equities in Residential Property Assessments for the Purpose of Administering Municipal Property Tax
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$35,500
Addressing Gender-based Violence through Economic Security: Is there a Role for a Basic Income?
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$30,000

All 5 grants and awards

Don't miss out on poverty reduction in Canada: How material deprivation indicators improve social policy design and evaluation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Notten, Gertruda A.M.

$278,518

Property Tax Equity Assessment (ProperTEA): (In)Equities in Residential Property Assessments for the Purpose of Administering Municipal Property Tax

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Tedds, Lindsay

Keywords: Municipal Property Tax; Inequality; Residential Property Assessment; Systemic Bias; Decomposition

$35,500

Addressing Gender-based Violence through Economic Security: Is there a Role for a Basic Income?

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Knowledge Synthesis Grants - Gender-Based Violence

Principal investigators: Tedds, Lindsay M.

Keywords: basic income; gender-based violence; economic security; income supports; basic services

$30,000

COVID-19 and The Financial Crises in the City of Calgary: What have Been the Impacts on the City's User levies and Property Tax Revenues and What Lessons Can be Learned

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants (PEG) COVID-19 Special Initiative

Principal investigators: Tedds, Lindsay M.

Keywords: municipal public finance; COVID-19; financial crisis; user levies; property taxes; revenue tools; constitutional authorities; municipal services; intergovernmental transfers; intergovernmental relations

$25,000

Canada Revenue Agency and Tax Administration: Re-envisioning Tax and Benefit Administration In the Age of Digitalization

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Knowledge Synthesis Grants

Principal investigators: Tedds, Lindsay M.

Keywords: tax administration; income support; digitization; Canada Revenue Agency

$30,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Municipal Property Tax Dear Professor Tedds, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on municipal property tax connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Property Tax Equity Assessment (ProperTEA): (In)Equities in Residential Property Assessments for the Purpose of Administering Municipal Property Tax" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]