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Borough taxes

Boroughs will levy two types of taxes: one concerning services and the other concerning capital expenditures. All types of immovables are charged the same rate. 

Tax concerning services
 
A borough council may, by virtue of powers vested in it by Charter of the Ville de Montréal, levy a property tax or require compensation for taxable properties situated in its borough, in view of increasing the levels of service offered.

Nine boroughs councils have decided to levy taxes concerning services in 2012. These boroughs are : Anjou, LaSalle, Lachine, Le Sud-Ouest, Montréal-Nord, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Saint-Laurent, Saint-Léonard and Verdun .

Tax concerning capital expenditures

Prior to 2005, all capital works expenditures were paid by the full set of Montréal taxpayers. Since 2005, the borough councils have had the power to adopt borrowing by-laws for expenditures identified in their respective three-year capital works programs that fall under local authority. This power is defined in the Charter of the Ville de Montréal. The owners of taxable properties situated in such boroughs are responsible for repaying the loans.

This new system will not result in any overall tax increase. The expenditures needed to repay these loans will not be financed by all Montréal taxpayers through the general property tax. Rather, they will be redistributed to the boroughs and will correspond to their respective spending levels.

In 2012, a borough investment tax will be levied to borrowing by-laws previously adopted by the various borough councils and investment expenditures that have been made from 2005 to 2010.

For more information, please:

  1. Call your borough office;
  2. Call : 311 (island of Montréal) or 514 872-0311 (outside Montréal);
  3. Send us an e-mail.

The details contained here are for information only and have no legal value. The acts and by-laws posted on this site are for administrative purposes only, and although efforts are made to update them, they may not be the latest versions. Please check the sources before using the texts officially.

 
 
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