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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.

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 2020 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 2020 rates for residential properties are as follows:

    Taxing Authority	Residential Mill Rate
    City	1.7039
    School – Province	1.1328
    TransLink (GVTA)	0.2517
    Metro Vancouver (GVRD)	0.0492
    BC Assessment	0.0426
    Municipal Finance Authority	0.0002
    Total	3.1804

    Example

    Assessed Value	X	Mill Rate	/ 1000 =	Gross taxes before an eligible Home Owner Grant is applied
    $1,176,300		3.1804		$3,741.10

• Where Your Tax Dollars Go

  • The City of Burnaby is required to collect property taxes on behalf of provincial and other authorities, including School, TransLink, BC Assessment, Municipal Finance Authority, Metro Vancouver and Business Improvement Areas. 47 cents of each dollar the City collects is passed on to the Province and other authorities. Only 53 cents of each dollar collected is used for City services.

    

    How the City’s Portion of Taxes is Spent

    The City’s portion of property taxes collected funds public services. The majority goes toward providing protective services, parks, recreation and cultural services and engineering services including maintenance of roads and infrastructure.

    

    Annual Operating Budget

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

• 2020 Rates

  • Taxing Authority

    Property Class	City Council	School - Prov	Industrial Tax Credit - Prov	School (net of Industrial Tax Credit)	Translink	Metro Vancouver	BC Assessment	Municipal Finance Authority	Total
    Residential	1.7039	1.1328	0.0000	1.1328	0.2517	0.0492	0.0426	0.0002	3.1804
    Utilities	18.3376	13.0300	0.0000	13.0300	2.3385	0.1722	0.4788	0.0007	34.3578
    Supportive Housing	1.7039	0.1000	0.0000	0.1000	0.0000	0.0492	0.0000	0.0002	1.8533
    Major Industry	24.1554	0.0001	-0.0001	0.0000	1.5016	0.1673	0.4788	0.0007	26.3038
    Light Industry	5.0624	1.0561	0.0000	1.0561	0.9585	0.1673	0.1099	0.0007	7.3549
    Business Other	5.2995	1.1070	0.0000	1.1070	0.8518	0.1205	0.1099	0.0005	7.4892
    Managed Forest Land	0.0000	0.0001	0.0000	0.0001	0.0000	0.1476	0.2242	0.0006	0.3725
    Recreation Non-Profit	0.6342	0.7844	0.0000	0.7844	0.1819	0.0492	0.0426	0.0002	1.6925
    Farm	5.4510	7.0500	-3.5250	3.5250	0.3494	0.0492	0.0426	0.0002	9.4174

     

  • 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.

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 in the Finance Department.