What the Town could publish
The same numbers, on the Town’s own website. This page took less than ten minutes to build.
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Property Tax Rates
Council sets the municipal tax rate each year by by-law. The table below shows the residential rate for each year since 2020, with a link to the by-law that set it.
| Year | Residential municipal rate | Change | By-law |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0.01387101 | n/a | By-Law 1419-2020 |
| 2021 | 0.01488392 | +7.30% | By-Law 1462-2021 |
| 2022 | 0.01569216 | +5.43% | By-Law 1505-2022 |
| 2023 | 0.01640750 | +4.56% | By-Law 1552-2023 |
| 2024 | 0.01749151 | +6.61% | By-Law 1584-2024 |
| 2025 | 0.01920560 | +9.80% | By-Law 2025-75 |
| 2026 | 0.02013524 | +4.84% | By-Law 2026-36 (in the April 14, 2026 agenda, p. 65) |
The education rate is set by the Province of Ontario and has not changed since 2020 (0.00153 for residential). Water and sewer are billed separately and are not included in these rates.
Estimate your 2026 bill
Starts at $200,000 as an example. Enter your own.
Enter an assessed value first
Estimate only. Water, sewer, and local charges are billed separately.
Not a workload question
Every number in that mockup is already public, and every link already works. What separates this from the real thing is a decision, not a budget. The mockup above, table, calculator and all, took less than ten minutes to build, and a real version would take a few minutes a year to keep current: one new row, once a year, when the tax rate by-law passes.
Transparency is sometimes described as a burden on staff. For the basics, this page is the evidence that it is not. And it would spare residents from digging through agenda packages to answer a basic question about their own tax bill.
If Council would rather design its own version, better still. The point is the page, not the credit.
The full record, including the longer view and the bill calculator, is on the tax history page.