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Assessment and Property Taxation in Uxbridge, Ontario
You and Your Property Tax Bill
While we all hate to pay taxes we know that the services we ask for from the various levels of government are paid for out of the taxes we pay. The question then becomes how do we ensure we only pay our fair share.
When it come to property taxes we can do this by ensuring our assessment is fair and equitable ..... by spending some time getting to know and understand the process and then appealing our assessment if we feel it is to high.
The First Step
Once you have determined that your assessment is to high you need to file a Request For Reconsideration (RFR) with the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC). Once MPAC has given their decision on your RFR you have 90 days from the date of that decision to file an appeal with The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) if you still feel your property is overassessed.
This is a subject I usually leave to my web guy/hubby who is know around Active Rain as Realtax.
Over the last few years he wrote a series of Articles On Assessment and Property Taxes entitled You And Your Property Tax Bill that highlighted some of the inequities he has found in the process.
While he seldom posts many articles today his posts are still worth reading if you are interested in learning about the Assessment process here in Ontario.
About Realtax.
The knowledge that he has acquired as a Real Estate Broker, in Assessment Appeals and courses on Assessment , in researching for presentation's to: The Fair Tax Commission, local Municipal Governments, a Provincial standing Committee, the Assessment Review Board and the Ontario Municipal Board over the years has left him with little faith in the assessment process here in Ontario. He believes the process might work very well in an area of subdivision type homes unfortunately there are large areas in and around Uxbridge that are very dissimilar thereby creating "in my opinion" assessed values that are unreasonable and unfair. He has
- successfully completed the Real Property Assessment Course (the one the assessors take to become assessors) with high honors. Over the years he has successfully appealed the assessment on every property we owned that he filed on, in some cases several times on the same property. He has also successfully reduced the assessment on several hundred properties for other people. He has appeared at local Assessment Review Board hearings and Ontario Municipal Board Hearings on Assessment with successful outcomes. He has successfully taken on Assessment Officers, Assessment directors and Lawyers representing the Assessment Department.
- made presentations to the Local Councils and to The City of Toronto on behalf of local taxpayer groups and the The Ontario Taxpayers Coalition prior to it joining forces with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
- made presentations to the Fair Tax Commission and a Standing Provincial Committee that was reviewing market value assessment on his own as well as in cooperation with a Regional Councilor and a school trustee.
Assessment and Property Taxation in Uxbridge, Ontario
