A new discontent is brewing in Canada’s oil patch—insolvent oil firms or energy companies trying to stay afloat amid low Canadian oil prices have started to lag in municipal tax payments or have stopped paying taxes altogether, The Globe and Mail reports , noting that losses on missed tax payments could be in the tens of millions of Canadian dollars. Although there aren’t precise figures about how much money municipalities in the provinces in Alberta and Saskatchewan are losing from laggard oil tax payers, the potential revenue decline has started to cause a discord between municipalities and oil companies, The Globe and Mail notes. Municipalities across Alberta and Saskatchewan have few options to enforce tax collection because oil and gas firms lease the land on which they drill, which leaves no property of a laggard tax-payer that the municipality could seize and sell in order to recover the payments. […]