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How Your Taxes are Calculated

• Assessment of Your Property’s Value

  • Each year, BC Assessment (BCA) provides property owners with an up-to-date valuation of their property. This valuation is based on a number of factors, including potential future use of the land and recent sales in the neighbourhood. Should people think the assessed value set by BCA is too high, owners have an opportunity to file an appeal with BCA. The deadline to file an appeal for 2019 is January 31.

    Learn more about the Assessment of Your Property’s Value »

• Impact of Assessments on Tax Rates

  • Your assessed value is multiplied by the tax rate for your assessment class and divided by 1,000. The tax rate (or mill rate) is comprised of the rates levied by each taxing authority. The 2018 rates for residential properties are as follows:

    Taxing Authority	Residential Mill Rate
    City	1.5063
    School – Province	1.0395
    TransLink (GVTA)	0.2115
    Metro Vancouver (GVRD)	0.0417
    BC Assessment	0.0403
    Municipal Finance Authority	0.0002
    Total	2.8395

    Example

    Assessed Value	X	Mill Rate	/ 1000 =	Gross taxes before an eligible Home Owner Grant is applied
    $1,151,810		2.8395		$3,271

• Where Your Tax Dollars Go

  • The City of Burnaby is required by the provincial government to collect taxes for provincial services, including schools, TransLink, BC Assessment and Metro Vancouver. Though the City must collect these taxes, it does not determine how much must be collected. These amounts are determined by the Province through the BC Assessment process, and all of the money the City collects is passed on to the Province. Only 53 cents of each dollar collected is for the City services.

    

    How the City’s Portion of Taxes is Spent

    The City’s portion of taxes collected is used to provide all of the public services noted on the pie chart below, with the majority used to provide protective services, fund parks, recreation and cultural events and maintain our roads, sewer systems and other infrastructure.

    

    Annual Operating Budget

    The current year's Annual Financial Plan is available in May each year.

• 2019 Rates

  • The rates will be available in mid-May 2019.

    View Historical Tax Rates for previous years.

• Minimum Tax Payable

  • Home owners qualifying for the Basic Home Owner Grant of $570 must pay a minimum tax of $350 plus water and sewer use charges.

    Home owners qualifying for the Basic and Additional Home Owner Grants totalling $845 must pay a minimum tax of $100 plus water and sewer use charges.

Understanding Your Property Tax Notice

Taxes set by Burnaby City Council include general city taxes, Local Area Service Levy, sewer parcel and Business Improvement Area Bylaw.

Provincial legislation requires Burnaby to collect taxes for services provided by other taxing authorities, such as the Province of BC, Translink, Metro Vancouver, BC Assessment Authority and Municipal Finance Authority.

Change of Address

If the mailing address on your Property Tax bill is incorrect, please complete and submit the Change of Address Area 10, Jurisdiction 301 form directly to BC Assessment.

It is important to keep your address current for property assessment and taxation purposes.

Contact the Tax Office

• About the Tax Office

  • The Tax Office is responsible for the billing and collection of utilities, garbage disposal fees, and property taxes. We also collect taxes for other authorities including Provincial Schools, Translink, Metro Vancouver, Municipal Finance Authority and BC Assessment. The office also provides central revenue receipting services for the City. The Tax Office is part of the Revenue Services division with the Finance Department.