Municipal taxation and property tax assessment

 

  • Municipal taxation: property taxes, water tax and service rates, business tax
  • Property tax assessment review applications filing with municipal assessors
  • Appeals (proceeding) before the Quebec Administrative Tribunal
  • Real estate valuation litigation
  • Park fees and development charges
  • Local improvement taxes
  • Transfer duties (Welcome tax)
  • Municipal tariffs and levies
  • Exemption regimes
    • Industrial machinery
    • Golf courses
    • Religious organizations
    • Non-profit organizations
  • Property assessment notices, role updates, modification and ex officio corrections

 

 

 

 

 

  • Helping clients manage and contest their municipal taxes and assessments
  • Assisting clients in the review and analysis of municipal tax assessment notices, property tax bills (municipal and school taxes), transfer duties, park fees and other rates and levies
  • Assisting clients answering municipal assessor’s information request
  • Coordination with experts, appraisers and other professionals
  • Negotiation of municipal value with municipal assessors, in collaboration with client’s appraiser
  • Advice, negotiation and litigation in tax assessment reviews:
    • Filing of property tax assessment review application with municipal assessor, generally the value of the property
    • Tax assessment appeals (proceeding) before the Quebec Administrative Tribunal
    • Contestation of modifications to the assessment roll
    • Appeal to the Court of Quebec and judicial review applications before the Superior Court of Quebec
  • Filing of application by non-profit organizations for tax exemption recognition before the Quebec Municipal Commission
  • Assisting clients in the review and analysis of local improvements taxes and contesting them if justified
  • Assisting clients in the imposition of transfer duties imposed on real estate transactions

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