Tax Information

Note: For property tax & finance related forms, go to our Forms, Applications, Permits page.

2024 Tax Installment Due Dates

Installment due dates are the 1st Monday of March, May and October, and the 1st Tuesday of August:

March 4, 2024

May 6, 2024

August 6, 2024

October 7, 2024

2025 Tax Installment Due Dates

Installment due dates are the 1st Monday of March, May and October, and the 1st Tuesday of August:

March 3, 2025

May 5, 2025

August 5, 2025

October 6, 2025

If you are moving, or have changed your mailing address,
please contact us immediately.

The Tax Collector has no authority to waive or alter penalty and/or interest for any reason, including not receiving a tax notice.

Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) + Township of Selwyn

What is the relationship between your assessment and your property taxes?

MPAC is responsible for assigning the assessment value and class for all properties in Ontario. For more information - including a link to their First-time homeowners' Hub, see the MPAC section of our website.

The Township of Selwyn uses this information to set property tax rates and calculate the Property Tax Levies.

Please read through the information below to learn more.

Property Tax Incentive Programs

There are 3 property tax incentive programs that property owner's can apply for. Each program requires an application through an external agency which upon approval is provided to MPAC for assessment classification and valuation, which is then provided to the Township for taxation.

Farmland Property Class (FT assessment class)

If you are eligible for the Farm Tax Program, your farmland is taxed at no more than 25% of the residential property tax rate. Your farm residence and one acre of land surrounding it continue to be taxed at the residential tax rate.

Assessment notices and assessment change documents received from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation should be checked carefully to ensure that properties that are being farmed are in the Farmland Property Class.

Most ownership changes will revert the property class to residential.

If you wish to be placed back in the Farmland Property Class, you must be properly registered with Agricorp.

For more information, visit Agricorp's website (Forms work best in Internet Explorer) or contact their customer service at 1-888-247-4999.

Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program (TT assessment class)

Through the Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program (MFTIP), landowners who get their property classified as ‘Managed Forest’ pay 25% of the municipal tax rate set for residential properties.

To participate, you must prepare and follow a 10-year Managed Forest Plan that details how you will manage your forest property responsibly.

The plan must be approved by a Managed Forest Plan Approver. These individuals are independent resource management consultants, certified by, but not employed by, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.

You also need to submit a 5-year progress report and update your management plan every 10 years to stay in the program.

For more information, visit the Province of Ontario's website or contact their customer service at 1-855-866-3847.

Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program (EN assessment class)

The Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program recognizes, encourages and supports the long-term private stewardship of Ontario’s provincially important natural areas. Under the Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program, portions of your property that have eligible natural heritage features may qualify for a 100% property tax exemption.

For more information, visit the Province of Ontario's website or contact their customer service at 1-800-268-8959.

Property Tax Notices

Annual taxes are calculated by multiplying the assessed value of your property by the Municipality's current consolidated tax rate. The consolidated tax rate is made up of a Township portion and a County portion (influenced by the respective budget requirements) and an Education portion which is set by the Province of Ontario. Through sound financial management, Selwyn boasts the lowest municipal property tax rate in the County of Peterborough.

Interim Tax Notices are based on approximately 1/2 of the previous year's total tax levy. Interim Tax Notices are sent at the end of January, and Final Tax Notices are sent at the end of June.

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation determines the assessed value of each property.

Included with all new owner tax notices:
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Included with your 2024 tax notices:

Interim: 2024 Interim Tax Insert, green landfill site pass and Peterborough County Causeway Update. Final: 2024 Final Tax Insert

Included with your 2025 tax notices:

Interim: 2025 Interim Tax Insert, blue landfill site pass and DocuPet dog licence information.

What does your roll number mean?

A Roll Number tells you everything you need to know about where a property is located. Think of a roll number as your property's personal ID!

Here is a breakdown of a Selwyn Township roll number, using the Municipal Office property as an example:

Roll Number for the Municipal Office: 1516.020.007.58400.0000

The first four numbers identify the County and Municipality that the property is located:

15 - Peterborough County
16 - Selwyn Township

The following three numbers identifies the ward that the property is located, in this example, it means the property is located in the Smith Ward.

Wards within Selwyn:

010 - Ennismore Ward
020 - Smith Ward
030 - Lakefield Ward
040 - former Douro Ward

The second set of three numbers identifies a specific area. In this example, it tells us that this property is located in a particular area within the Smith Ward. All properties in the same area are identified using the same three digits.

The section of five numbers is the property ID number and is unique to each property. There is one I.D. number issued for each property in the Township.

The final four numbers (0000) are available for expansion but this grouping of numbers currently doesn't identify or represent anything specific, but exist for future use.

Look for your roll number on all Township Selwyn tax document. Note: at times we may omit the "1516" and only use the remaining 15 digits to identify your property as the "1516" is common to all Selwyn roll numbers.

Reading Your Tax Notice - Assessment Class Codes

Under Assessment Class on your tax notice, the first 2 characters indicate the Tax Class (these codes are also used in the Consolidated Tax Rates section):

Code	Tax Class
C7	Commercial small on-farm
CT	Commercial
CU	Commercial Excess Land
CX	Commercial Vacant Land
FT	Farmland
IT	Industrial
IU	Industrial Excess Land
IX	Industrial Vacant Land
MT	Multi Residential
NT	New Multi Residential
PT	Pipeline
RT	Residential
ST	Shopping Centre
SU	Shopping Centre Excess Land
TT	Managed Forest

The last character(s) identify school support:

Code	School Support
EP	English Speaking Public School
ES	English Speaking Separate School
FP	French Speaking Public School
FS	French Speaking Separate School
N	No Directed Support

For information on changing your school support see Property Tax School Support page.

Minimum Bill Adjustment

Effective June 2022 the total annual minimum increased from $10.00 to $25.00. The $10.00 minimum had been in place for many years, but was no longer offsetting costs.

To determine whether a minimum bill adjustment applies, we calculate the annual levy (multiply the assessment and the applicable tax rate) and if the total is less than $25.00, it is adjusted up to $25.00.

Supplementary Tax Bills and Adjustments

Supplemental Tax Notices are taxes levied as a result of MPAC issuing a Property Assessment Change Notice for a supplementary or omitted assessment. You'll receive one of these notices when your property's assessed value or classification changes because improvements to the property or a change in its use.

These tax notices are issued in addition to the interim and final notice and does not cancel or replace taxes previously levied.

Any current year reductions, due to assessment value or class changes, are processed after the final tax notices are issued.

For more information please visit our Supplementary Bills & Adjustments page.

Paperless Billing with Virtual Town Hall (VTH)

You can receive a digital copy of your Property Tax Notice by signing up for Paperless Notifications. To access the digital copy, you will log into your Virtual Town Hall account. For more information, please see our paperless notifications page.

Property Tax Calculation

Want to determine what the annual taxes will be on a property? Simply multiply the assessment value and the tax rate. If the property is located in Woodland Acres, you will also need to add on the annual charges for water and wastewater.

Don't know the assessment value? Use our Property Search through Virtual Town Hall (VTH)

Examples:

2024 residential assessment of 314,173 located in Ward 1, 2 or 4: 314,173 x 0.887500% (or 0.00887500) = $2,788.29

2024 residential assessment of 314,173 located in Ward 3: 314,173 x 0.983277% (or 0.00983277) = $3,089.19

Comparison of 2023 Municipal Tax Rates to 2024 Municipal Tax Rates

Property Tax Reminder Notices

For the remainder of 2023 and all of 2024, Property Tax Reminder Notices for outstanding balances will only be sent after an installment due date and at the end of the year. Staff will be investing the existing resources into property specific discussions, rather than monthly mailings to all eligible properties. This collection process will be reviewed later in 2024 with respect to cost savings and effectiveness.

Penalty and/or interest is fixed at a rate of 1.25% per month and will continue to be added to unpaid taxes after the due date and the beginning of each month after. Reminder notices will be sent for accounts with an outstanding balance over $10.00 at the beginning of March, May, August, October, and December.

Balances can be viewed 24/7 through your Virtual Town Hall (VTH) account or can be requested by contacting the office by phone: 705-292-9507 or by emailing the finance department.

Penalty & Interest

Penalty and/or interest is fixed at a rate of 1.25% per month and will be added to unpaid taxes after the due date and the beginning of each month after.

Reminder notices are sent 5 times a year for accounts with an outstanding balance over $10.00.

Payment Options

Property taxes can be paid by pre-authorized payment plan, online/telephone banking, cash, debit or cheque. For details, please see our Payment Options and Information page.

Payment Apply Sequence

As required by the Municipal Act, 2001 s 347(1) all payments are applied in the following order:

NSF fees or other charges that may be collected through the tax roll (if applicable)
Penalty/interest (if applicable, oldest to newest)
Taxes (oldest to newest)

Current Municipal Tax Rates

Not sure whether your property taxes are based on the rural or village tax rate?

Wards 1, 2 and 4 are rural and ward 3 is village. The rate difference for the village ward is due to the cost of police services (Peterborough Police vs. OPP).

Not sure what ward you are?

Check out our What Your Roll Number Means page

2024 Consolidated Tax Rates

Assessment Class Code	Description	Rural	Village
RT/NT	Residential/New Multi Res	0.887500%	0.983277%
FT/TT	Farmland/Managed Forest	0.221875%	0.245819%
CT/XT/ST	Commercial/Shopping Centre	1.686922%	1.792143%
C7	Commercial small on-farm	1.026922%	1.132143%
CU/CX/SU	Comm./Shopping Vacant/Excess	1.444845%	1.518499%
IT	Industrial/New Industrial	2.013481%	2.161283%
IU/IX	Industrial/New Industrial Vacant/Excess	1.616763%	1.712835%
MT	Multi Residential	1.030655%	1.145098%
PT	Pipeline	1.569402%	1.659298%

Tax Rate By-law and Schedules

Water & Sewer

Properties located in the Village of Lakefield and Woodland Acres (including the new Summer Lane subdivision) are serviced by municipal water and wastewater.

The Village of Lakefield receives a separate Water and Sewer Invoice from Selwyn Township, and Woodland Acres is billed by the Township under the "Special Charges" section of the interim and final tax notice each year.

For current rates and billing information, please visit the Municipal Water & Wastewater page.

Property Tax Statement for Income Taxes

Looking for your annual taxes paid for income tax? Please see our Property Tax Statement for Income Tax page

Distribution of 2024 tax dollar based on average residential assessed value

2024 distribution of tax dollars

For a breakdown of the County dollar, visit the Peterborough County website

Relationship between total residential assessment and residential tax rate

Note: the Ontario government has postponed the 2020 Assessment Update. They have indicated that property assessments will continue to be based on the fully phased-in January 1, 2016 current values. For more information, visit MPAC's website.

Residential assessment vs. tax rate Rural Ward for 2013-2024

Residential assessment vs. tax rate Village Ward for 2013-2024