Taxes and Municipal Assessment

The annual tax bill is usually mailed out in the month of January of each year.  Therefore, during the year of your acquiring a property, you will not receive a tax bill in your name but you will receive a document confirming your acquisition.  It is your responsibility to make sure that we have your current mailing address.  Please contact us as soon as possible if you do not receive your tax bill early in the new year.

You can now register to view your tax account online via the Voilà platform.  With just one click, you will be able to access your tax account, view your history and assessment notice!

Registration for the online tax account

Understanding your tax bill

During the year, you may receive one or more complementary tax accounts for the current or previous year.  This invoicing usually follows the issuance of one or more valuation certificates to adjust the value of your property, downwards or upwards, resulting from construction work, renovations or other acts that could alter your municipal assessment.  This retroactive adjustment can occur several months after the work has been completed.

2022 Tax Instalments

• March 1st 
• April 20th 
• June 1st
• July 20th
• September 1st
• October 20th

Payment methods

You can pay your tax bill using these different payment methods:

Pre-Authorized Payment

Simple and easy!  Pay your bill in 12 equal instalments. 

You have two payment options: 

• Pre-authorized payments according to the six (6) instalments indicated on your annual tax bill
• Pre-authorized payments in twelve (12) equal instalments, with interest

 Register for pre-authorized payments 

Via Your Financial Institution

Online bill payment on your financial institution’s website.  You must register the 19 digits of your matriculation number(not including the letter F).  You can also pay your bill at your bank’s counter or at an ATM machine.

By Mail

Send post-dated cheques made payable to the Municipality of Rawdon.  You can also drop them off at the Town Hall reception desk or, outside of office hours, drop them into the library book chute located next to the main entrance. 

Please note that the mailing address listed in your file is the one indicated in the deed of sale and not the address of the property you are buying.  Please notify us as soon as possible if a change of address is in order.

Change of Address Form

To find out more about the 2022 tax rates, please consult the table below. 

See the taxation table

Provincial law requires that a person pay real estate transfer duties.  Quebec municipalities must collect a fee on the transfer of any immovable located on their territory, with certain exceptions provided for by the law, notably when a property is sold by a family member to a family member, in ascending or descending line. The transfer fee is payable in one instalment 30 days after the account is sent.

How to calculate your transfer fee?

• The first bracket is from $0 to $55 200 at a rate of 0.5 %;
• The second bracket is from $55 200,01 to $276 200 at a rate of 1 %;
• The third bracket is from $276 200,01 to $500 000 at a rate of 1.5 %
• The fourth bracket is from %500 000,01 and above at a rate of 3 %

2023 Comparative Factor: 1.45

Applicable Regulations

Suppletive Duty

A suppletive duty of a maximum amount of $200 per transferred immovable is imposed on purchasers whose transaction is exempt from real estate transfer duties.  The suppletive duty does not apply to the transfer of an immovable following the death of a person directly linked to the transferee (spouse or ascending/descending relation).

New Owners – Deeds of Sale

Reminder: The annual tax bill is usually mailed out in the month of January of each year.  Therefore, during the year of your acquiring a property, you will not receive a tax bill in your name but you will receive a document confirming your acquisition.

Please note that the mailing address listed in your file is the one indicated in the deed of sale and not the address of the property you are buying.  Please notify us as soon as possible if a change of address is in order.

Visit to the notary

Ordinarily, when you sign your purchase agreement at the notary’s office, the notary advises you of the amount of taxes to be paid and the due dates for the current year.  If this is not the case, please contact the Municipality’s Taxation Department to obtain the necessary information to avoid incurring interest. 

Municipal taxes are linked to the property and not to the property owner.  If there are unpaid taxes at the time of acquisition, you are responsible for them as the new owner.  You must pay them and try to recover them from the seller.

Make sure to discuss the breakdown of the taxes to be paid with the seller, at the time of the transaction. 

Amendments to the Act governing real estate transfer duties

Various amendments have been made to the Loi concernant les droits sur les mutations immobilières (Act governing real estate transfer duties).  In particular, it provides for the establishment of a disclosure mechanism, namely:

• A disclosure mechanism where the ownership of at least 90% of the shares with full voting rights ceases within 24 months of the transfer of the property;

 In order to facilitate the management of this mandatory disclosure mechanism, the Municipality provides you with forms containing all of the information required by the government.  This notice of disclosure must be mailed to the Municipality of Rawdon (3647, Queen Street, Rawdon (Quebec) J0K 1S0) or by email to taxes@rawdon.ca, within the following deadline:

• Within 90 days of the termination of the holding of at least 90% of the shares with full voting rights, when an exemption has been granted under Section 19 of the Loi concernant les droits sur les mutations immobilières.

Disclosure Form

Revenu Québec will impose a suppletive duty equal to 150% of the transfer duty on transferees who have omitted to file the notice of disclosure with the Municipality. 

Amendments regarding former common-law partners

The government of Quebec’s 2016-2017 budget also introduced amendments to the Loi concernant les droits sur les mutations immobilières by introducing an exemption from the payment of transfer duties when the transfer is made between former common-law partners, within 12 months of the date they ceased to be partners due to the failure of their union.  When such an exemption is requested, the form listed below must be filled out and submitted by mail to the Municipality of Rawdon (3647, Queen Street, Rawdon (Quebec) J0K 1S0) or by email to taxes@rawdon.ca. 

Disclosure Form for the Transfer Between Former Common-Law Partners 

For any additional information, please contact the Municipality at 450 834-2596. 

New Owners – Non-registered properties

(example: trailer that is permanently installed at a campground)

The annual tax bill is usually mailed out in the month of January of each year.  Therefore, during the year of your acquiring a property, you will not receive a tax bill in your name but you will receive a document confirming your acquisition.

Municipal Taxes 

Municipal taxes are linked to the property and not to the property owner.  If there are unpaid taxes at the time of acquisition, you are responsible for them as the new owner.  You must pay them and try to recover them from the seller.

Make sure to discuss the breakdown of the taxes to be paid with the seller, at the time of the transaction. 

Amendments to the Act governing real estate transfer duties

Various amendments have been made to the Loi concernant les droits sur les mutations immobilières (Act governing real estate transfer duties).  In particular, it provides for the establishment of a disclosure mechanism, namely:

• A disclosure mechanism for the transfer of an immovable not registered in the land registry, within 90 days of the transaction.

In order to facilitate the management of this mandatory disclosure mechanism, the Municipality provides you with forms containing all of the information required by the government.  This notice of disclosure must be submitted to the Municipality, within the following deadline:

• Within 90 days of the transfer of an immovable that is not registered in the land registry during this period.

Be sure to complete all the sections and to sign the form (both seller and buyer) as well as the sales contract part on the back of the form.  The form can be sent by mail (3647, Queen Street, Rawdon (Quebec) J0K 1S0) or by email to taxes@rawdon.ca. 

Disclosure Form for Transfers of Immovables Not Registered in the Land Registry

Revenu Québec will impose a suppletive duty equal to 150% of the transfer duty on transferees who have omitted to file the notice of disclosure with the Municipality. 

For any additional information, please contact the Municipality at 450 834-2596.