New Brunswick introduces new legislation that would leave non-residential ratepayers potentially exposed to a larger share of the property tax burden.

The Alberta government plans to block vacancy tax on dwellings that provincial residents own and introduce fines for property owners who fail to submit required information to assessors.

There’s little clear insight into what New Brunswick's residential landlords and non-residential ratepayers think about the assessment and property tax system.

A promised overhaul of New Brunswick’s property tax system has been launched with a public survey and stakeholder consultation process.

Web platform upgrades could ease drudgery for Ontario commercial ratepayers obliged to submit annual income and expense information to the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation.

New Brunswick will hold property assessments at 2025 levels for 2026 as the first step of a promised overhaul of the property tax system.

Ontario’s outdated property assessments are an added hitch for retail landlords now contemplating vacant anchor spaces in dozens of regional shopping centres throughout the province.

Ontario’s fall economic statement confirms that property reassessment is still on hold, but a small tweak is in the works to alleviate the tax burden on some student housing projects.

Commercial ratepayers took on a larger share of the property tax burden in eight of 11 large Canadian cities this year, with 2023 commercial tax rates more than tripling residential tax rates in six of those cities.

The recent regulation to postpone Ontario's property reassessment for another year stretches the assessment cycle to double its originally intended time span.

New Brunswick's newly announced cabinet shuffle responds to the recent departure of four provincial Ministers, two through resignation and two through dismissal.

Assessment appeal filing fees are jumping from $30 to $300 for British Columbia's commercial and industrial property owners, but remaining static for other property classes.

Many multifamily landlords in Halifax have seen a jump in their property values with Nova Scotia’s most recent reassessment based on January 2022 market values.

Saskatchewan's commercial ratepayers face an increase in the education portion of their property taxes due to a bump-up in the mill rate, but the spread across tax classes has been tightened.

Manitoba is moving to establish a single entity to deal with property tax assessment appeals, compensation for land expropriation and applications for surface rights.

Surging values for single-family homes are far outstripping condo gains, but average assessed values for strata residential properties rose anywhere from 7 to 29 per cent across 19 jurisdictions in the lower mainland.

Economic fallout from COVID-19 is shifting more of the tax burden to this flourishing group of assets via the mill rate, while also driving up the tax rate, for a double-whammy of consequences in jurisdictions that update valuations annually.