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:
- Call your borough office;
- Call : 311 (island of Montréal) or 514 872-0311 (outside Montréal);
- 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.
