Request for deferral to contest a property assessment

CORPIQ joins four other organizations to ask the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Andrée Laforest, to extend the April 30 deadline for filing a request to contest a property assessment, which serves as the basis for the calculation of municipal and school taxes for three years.

The law provides that any application for review must be filed in person or by mail, accompanied by a certified cheque. However, municipal offices are closed due to the pandemic, and a registered letter and certified cheque requires a transaction in person.

Furthermore, taxpayers and their representatives, including chartered appraisers, cannot, and will not, have access to municipal records before the deadline. This situation does not allow property owners and their representatives to complete the analyses necessary to make an informed decision about filing such a request.

Property owners could be prejudiced by this situation when all other legal deadlines have been suspended.

Several cities have a new three-year assessment roll that came into effect in 2020, including Montréal, Lévis and Terrebonne (see list below). Therefore, the contestation by an owner must be filed by April 30.

CORPIQ is joining forces in this matter with the Ordre des évaluateurs agréés du Québec (OEAQ), the Institut du Développement Urbain du Québec (IDU), the Canadian Property Tax Association (CPTA) and the Appraisal Institute of Canada (AIC).

Cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants with a new assessment roll in 2020:

Beaconsfield
Beauharnois
Beloeil
Boisbriand
Bromont
Chambly
Châteauguay
Côte-Saint-Luc
Dollard-Des-Ormeaux
Dorval
Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Joliette
Kirkland
La Prairie
Lévis
Matane
Mirabel
Montréal
Mount Royal
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Mont-Tremblant
Pointe-Claire
Rimouski
Rivière-du-Loup
Saint-Charles-Borromée
Saint-Constant
Sainte-Catherine
Sainte-Thérèse
Saint-Félicien
Saint-Jérôme
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Sorel-Tracy
Terrebonne
Westmount