Tax Information

What Does Your Roll Number Mean?

A Roll Number tells you everything you need to know about where a property is located. Look for your roll number on all Township Selwyn tax documents.

Here is a breakdown of a Selwyn Township roll number, using the roll number for the Municipal Office property as an example: 1516.020.007.58400.0000

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

• 15 - Peterborough County
• 16 - Selwyn Township

The following three numbers identifies the ward where 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.

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):

The last character(s) identify school support:

The levy descriptions listed under the "Class/Educ. Support" stand for:

Minimum Bill Adjustment

The Township of Selwyn has an annual minimum bill adjustment of $25.00.

To determine whether a minimum bill adjustment applies, we calculate the annual levy (multiply the property's assessment value by 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

Supplementary Tax Notices

Have you added value to your property with the addition/improvement of a structure?

Property assessment values in Ontario are determined by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC). Their current value assessment system takes into consideration additions/improvements made to a property that has increased its overall value. When a supplemental assessment notice is issued, the Township is required to generate a tax notice considering the applicable tax rate and time period. Before receiving a property tax notice, you will receive notification of the change in value from MPAC.

• For example: if you build a garage in 2023, you could receive the supplemental tax notice for the additional value of the garage for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the year 2025.

If you are enrolled in a Pre-Authorized Payment (PAP) program, supplementary billings will be withdrawn from your account but depending on the time of year, we may need to withdraw funds on a date outside of your regular plan date. You will be notified if this is the case. 

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

Adjustments

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

If the demolition of a structure has reduced the assessed value of your property, please complete and submit a Section 357 Application.

Tax class, assessment values and roll numbers are provided by MPAC. Changes cannot be made without direction from MPAC. 

Want to determine what the annual taxes will be on a property? Simply multiply the assessment value by 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.

Examples:

• Property located in Wards 1, 2 or 4 with an assessment value of $314,173: $314,173 x 0.887500% (or 0.00887500) = $2,788.29
• Property located in Ward 3 with an assessment value of $314,173: $314,173 x 0.983277% (or 0.00983277) = $3,089.19

Comparison of 2023 Municipal Tax Rates to 2024 Municipal Tax Rates

• 2024 Tax Rate By-law and Schedule
• 2023 Tax Rate By-law and Schedule
• 2022 Tax Rate By-law and Schedule

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.

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 account or can be requested by contacting the Municipal Office by phone: 705-292-9507 or by emailing the Finance Department.

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

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