Property Assessment

Who Assesses Your Property?

Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC)  is responsible for assessing and classifying all properties in Ontario. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario Government postponed the 2020 Assessment Update. Your property assessment for the 2024 property tax year will continue to be based on the fully phased-in January 1, 2016 value (same as the 2023 tax year) unless there have been changes to your property.

 The Current Value Assessment (CVA) on your notice was used to calculate your 2017 to 2024 property taxes.

How MPAC Assesses Properties

To learn more about your assessed value, see what information MPAC has on file, or compare your property to others in your neighbourhood, visit About My Property, a free self-service application provided by MPAC. Login using the roll number and special access key that is provided on your assessment notice.

To learn more about how MPAC assesses properties, watch MPAC's video:

MPACS Property Assessment Notice

Your Property Assessment Notice from MPAC provides:

• January 1, 2016, Current Value Assessment (CVA) – what a property could have reasonably sold for on January 1, 2016
• property classification
• phase-in assessed values over four years, including:
  • increases in the assessed value of your property, were gradually phased in from 2017 to 2020
  • decreases in the assessed value, were fully implemented immediately

Assessment Questions or Disagreements

General Questions

Assessment general questions can be directed to MPAC, please contact MPAC at 1-866-296-6722.

Disagreements

A reminder that your current assessment is valued as of 2016. When you review your property assessment, confirm the assessed value by considering if you could have sold your property for that amount on January 1, 2016. If the answer is no, you can appeal your assessment by filing a Request for Reconsideration (RfR) to MPAC. When an assessment notice is issued, the deadline to file an RfR is 120 days after the date on the assessment notice. For subsequent years, the deadline is March 31st. Forms are available on the MPAC website.

Changing Your Address With MPAC

For information on changing you address with MPAC please visit their website. 

Farmland Classification

As a farmland owner in Ontario, you may be eligible to apply for a property tax reduction through the Farm Property Class Tax Rate Program from Agricorp. The telephone number for Agricorp is 1-888-247-4999, or visit the Agricorp website for more information.

Requesting a tax adjustment

You can request a tax adjustment or tax relief if any of the following conditions have affected you or your property:

• A building destroyed by fire, demolition or otherwise
• Mobile home unit is removed
• Sickness or extreme poverty
• Gross or manifest clerical/factual error
• A building is damaged and unusable
• Your property ceases to be liable at the tax rate it was taxed
• Renovations prevent normal use (minimum three months)

To request a tax adjustment please email propertytax@saugeenshores.ca for further information.