Tax Information

Note: For property tax & finance related forms, go to our Forms, Applications, Permits page.

2021 Tax Installment Due Dates

Installment due dates are always the 1st Monday of March, May and October, and the 2nd Monday of August:

March 1, 2021

May 3, 2021

August 9, 2021

October 4, 2021

If you are moving, or have changed your mailing address,
please contact us immediately.

The Tax Collector has no authority to waive or alter penalty and/or interest for any reason, including not receiving a tax notice.

Property Tax Notices

Annual taxes are calculated by multiplying the assessed value of your property by the Municipality's current consolidated tax rate. The consolidated tax rate is made up of a Township portion and a County portion (influenced by the respective budget requirements) and an Education portion which is set by the Province of Ontario. Through sound financial management, Selwyn boasts the lowest municipal property tax rate in the County of Peterborough.

Interim Tax Notices are based on approximately 1/2 of the previous year's total tax levy. Interim Tax Notices are sent at the end of January, and Final Tax Notices are sent at the end of June.

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation determines the assessed value of each property.

Included with your 2021 tax notices:
Interim: 2021 Interim Tax Insert, Exploring our online options and landfill site pass. Final: 2021 Final Tax Insert

Reading Your Tax Notice - Assessment Class Codes

Under Assessment Class on your tax notice, the first 2 characters indicate the Tax Class (these codes are also used in the Consolidated Tax Rates section):

Code	Tax Class
C7	Commercial small on-farm
CT	Commercial
CU	Commercial Excess Land
CX	Commercial Vacant Land
FT	Farmland
IT	Industrial
IU	Industrial Excess Land
IX	Industrial Vacant Land
JT	New Industrial
MT	Multi Residential
NT	New Multi Residential
PT	Pipeline
RT	Residential
ST	Shopping Centre
SU	Shopping Centre Excess Land
TT	Managed Forest
XT	New Commercial
XU	New Commercial Excess Land

The last character(s) identify school support:

Code	School Support
EP	English Speaking Public School
ES	English Speaking Separate School
FP	French Speaking Public School
FS	French Speaking Separate School
N	No Directed Support

For information on changing your school support see Property Tax School Support page.

Penalty & Interest

Penalty and/or interest is fixed at a rate of 1.25% per month and will be added to unpaid taxes after the due date and the beginning of each month after.

Reminder notices are sent for accounts with an outstanding balance over $10.00.

Payment Apply Sequence

All payments are applied in the following order:

NSF fees or other charges that may be collected through the tax roll (if applicable)
Penalty/interest (if applicable, oldest to newest)
Taxes (oldest to newest)

Current Municipal Tax Rates

Not sure whether your property taxes are based on the rural or village tax rate?

Wards 1, 2 and 4 are rural and ward 3 is village. The rate difference for the village ward is due to the cost of police services (Peterborough Police vs. OPP).

Not sure what ward you are?

Check out our What Your Roll Number Means page

2021 Consolidated Tax Rates

Code	Tax Class	Rural	Village
RT	Residential	0.812042%	0.904064%
FT/TT	Farmland/Managed Forest	0.203010%	0.226015%
CT/XT/ST	Commercial/Shopping Centre	1.604023%	1.705118%
C7	Commercial small on-farm	0.944023%	1.045118%
CU/CX/XU/SU	Comm./Shopping Vacant/Excess	1.386816%	1.457582%
IT	Industrial	1.897032%	2.039040%
JT	New Industrial	1.897032%	2.039040%
IU/IX	Industrial Vacant/Excess	1.541071%	1.633376%
MT	Multi Residential	1.326224%	1.490041%
NT	New Multi-Res	0.812042%	0.904064%
PT	Pipeline	1.498577%	1.584948%

Tax Rate By-law and Schedules

Water & Wastewater

Properties located in the Village of Lakefield and Woodland Acres (including the new Summer Lane subdivision) are serviced by municipal water and wastewater.

The Village of Lakefield is billed directly by Peterborough Utilities, and Woodland Acres is billed by the Township on the final tax notice each year.

For current rates, please visit the Water, Wastewater & Utilities page.

Distribution of 2021 tax dollar based on average residential assessed value

2020 tax dollar distribution

For a breakdown of the County dollar, visit the Peterborough County website

Relationship between total residential assessment and residential tax rate

Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario government has postponed the 2020 Assessment Update. They have indicated that property assessments for the 2021 property tax year will continue to be based on the fully phased-in January 1, 2016 current values. For more information, visit MPAC's website.