Understanding Your Property Tax Bill

Your property tax bill includes property taxes for three different service providers. This includes your local area municipality, your regional municipality (The Regional Municipality of Durham) and the Province of Ontario for education purposes.

Although we receive the Regional share of property taxes, your local area municipality is responsible for issuing the property tax bills and collecting all property taxes. You can contact your local area municipality with questions you have about your property tax bill.

Property Tax Calculation

To calculate the amount of annual property taxes, we multiply the property's assessed value by the property tax rate for that property's tax class.

All of the information you need to calculate your property taxes is on your property tax bill. This includes:

• Property classification (MPAC assigned).
• Current value assessment (CVA) for the property (MPAC assigned).
• Property class tax rate for each of the three service providers.
• Total annual property taxes for each service.

Property Classification And Assessment

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) classifies and assesses each property to determine a CVA. The classification determines which property tax class the property will be in. MPAC sends assessment notices to property owners that provide the property's CVA and classification.

Property Tax Rates

Each of the three service providers has a separate property tax rate for each property tax class.

Municipal property tax rates are based on the municipal tax ratios that Durham Regional Council sets yearly.

Contact your local area municipality to learn more about the property tax rates within your municipality.