Property Tax: Is Your City Charging Too Much?
The 2024 property tax bills will be posted online starting Wednesday, August 28. Will there be a significant increase? The suspense continues. In the meantime, you can easily compare your city’s tax rate with those of neighboring municipalities.
To find out if your city has particularly high property tax rates, you can use the interactive tool posted online by the Ministry of the Economy. This tool allows you to easily compare your municipality’s rates with those of neighboring municipalities and with departmental and regional averages.
How to Review Your Property Tax Bill?
When you receive your property tax bill, you can examine in detail the municipal rate, the rate for the municipal association, the intermunicipal association, and so on. You can also check the “household waste” tax rate and see how these rates have changed compared to the previous year.
Compare your local tax rate with those of other municipalities
But how can you tell if your city is among the highest-taxed municipalities in the intermunicipal community? Or within your department? Of course, differences in tax rates are often due to variations in local investment policies. Still, you can check for yourself where your municipality ranks.
Use an official tool to compare tax rates:
Where can you find this tool? The Ministry of the Economy has launched an online visualization tool that allows you to compare rates very precisely within your department... and therefore within your community of municipalities. This tool currently lists the rates for 2021, 2022, and 2023 and will be updated with the 2024 rates in the coming weeks.
How do you use this interactive tool?
By visiting this official interactive tool, you can enter your region, then your department, and select your municipality as well as nearby towns. You’ll then see your property tax rate (TFB, for property tax on built structures) at the municipal level. You can immediately compare it with the departmental average (“Moy Dép” in the box at the top left of the map) and with the regional average. Then simply click on the municipalities you want to compare with.
