Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this report is to respond to the Executive Committee direction to the Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer and the City Solicitor for a report on Personal Vehicle Tax (PVT) refunds, and to report on the Executive Committee’s referral to the Mayor’s Office of a letter from the Chair of the Licensing and Standards Committee for necessary action to address the inequity between Ambassador and Fleet Taxis. The tax was designed in accordance with the City’s legislative authority at the time, and provides refunds where a person has paid an amount of tax that is not payable under the by-law, i.e. only where the tax is collected in error, upon receipt of satisfactory evidence and such determination by the City’s Chief Financial Officer. It does not provide for refunds due to changing circumstances such as plate cancellation or relocation outside Toronto. This contrasts with the Provincial registration fee system, and has resulted in criticism. Staff have examined scenarios with regard to providing refunds more in line with the Provincial registration system. Taking into account fairness, feasibility, and cost, it is recommended that PVT be refunded when ownership and address changes occur prior to the onset of a whole year(s) validation renewal period. More comprehensive (monthly) refund administration would take years to implement and is not recommended. In addition, staff have examined the feasibility of refunding PVT paid by individually owned Ambassador Class and Standard Class taxicabs. It is recommended that both classes be subject to a full refund of taxes paid, starting September 1, 2010.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.511 | 0.416 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".