Assessment Contacts Millet (780) 586-2494 (780) 387-4554 Barrhead (County) When will I know how much I am (780) 674-3331 (780) 586-2494 paying in taxes? Barrhead (Town) Onoway (780) 674-3301 (780) 967-5338 Assessment You will receive your 2020 annual tax bill after Parkland Beach Council determines the final tax rates. Your tax (780) 797-3863 (403) 843-2055 bill represents your share of the muncipality’s Bon Accord revenue requirement and your share of the (780) 921-3550 (780) 968-8888 Information provincial education tax. (403) 304-5391 (780) 586-2494 Cremona Redwater for Residential When must I pay my taxes? (403) 637-3762 (780) 942-3519 Crystal Springs It is important to note that your 2020 taxes (780) 586-2494 (780) 797-3863 Property Owners cover the period of January 1, 2020 to Devon Silver Beach December 31, 2020. This means a couple of (780) 987-8304 (780) 389-4409 different payment options are available to you: Silver Sands (780) 992-6200 (587) 873-5765 2020 1. You may take advantage of the municipality’s Golden Days Slave Lake monthly payment plan that spreads the tax (780) 586-2494 (780) 849-8000 payment out over the year.* The monthly Grandview Smoky Lake payments for the first half of 2020 are based (780) 586-2494 (780) 656-3674 on 2019 taxes. The installments for the Gull Lake Spring Lake balance of the 2020 calendar year are (403) 748-2966 (780) 963-4211 adjusted to reflect the finalized tax bill mailed to you. If you wish to sign up now for the (780) 609-0053 (780) 962-2611 Monthly Tax Payment Plan and pay your 2020 Stony Plain (780) 312-0928 (780) 963-8582 taxes in monthly installments by automatic bank withdrawal, contact your municipality. (780) 914-0997 (780) 389-4409 2. Alternatively, you can wait for your final tax bill Lakeview Sunset Beach to come and choose to pay your property (780) 797-3863 (780) 239-7323 taxes in a lump sum by the date specified on Lamont (County) Swan Hills (780) 895-2233 (780) 333-4477 your tax notice. Lamont (Town) Vilna (780) 895-2010 (780) 636-3620 * Please contact your municipal office to Larkspur Wabamun determine if a monthly payment option is (780) 609-0053 (780) 892-2699 available in your community. Legal Waskatenau (780) 961-3773 (780) 358-2208 Lesser Slave River Westlock (780) 849-4888 (780) 349-4444 Ma-Me-O Beach Whispering Hills Capital Region Assessment Services Commission (780) 586-2494 (780) 609-0053 11810 Kingsway Mayerthorpe Whitecourt , T5G 0X5 (780) 786-2416 (780) 778-2273 Website: www.crasc.ca Woodlands County Email: [email protected] (780) 609-0053 (780) 778-8400 In order to maintain equity, similar properties What is market value assessment? should have similar assessed values. How do I make a complaint? Market value is the amount that a property might Important information for filing a complaint: If your building was only partially completed on be expected to realize if sold on the open 1. There is a standard complaint form. It is December 31, 2019, your assessment reflects the market by a willing seller to a willing buyer. available at the municipal office or at crasc.ca. value of the lot and the value of the building based 2. If you hire someone to represent you, you must The Alberta government requires all Alberta on the percentage completed. also complete an agent authorization form. municipalities to update property values annually to reflect the market value on July 1 of the If you have any questions or concerns about your 3. You must fully provide all information requested previous year, based on its condition on property assessment, please contact your by these forms. An Assessment Review Board December 31 of that previous year. municipal office. cannot hear any matters that are not listed on your complaint form. Your assessment notice for 2020 shows the market What if I don’t agree with this 4. Your municipality likely charges a fee to file a value assessment of your property at July 1, 2019, complaint. You must pay this fee at the time of based on its condition on December 31, 2019. assessment? filing your complaint. You may make a formal complaint about your 5. One original of your completed complaint form, How is my property’s market value assessment. The deadline date for submitting your agent authorization form if required, any other complaint is noted on your assessment notice. supporting documentation, and the applicable determined? complaint fee must be filed with the Assessment Your property’s assessed value is determined Use this time to talk to your assessor about your Review Board at your municipal office no later using similar criteria to those used by real estate questions and concerns (contact details available than 4:30 p.m. on the deadline date as shown agents, e.g.: from your municipal office). If there is an error in on your assessment notice. the assessment, assessors are able to make • Location 6. Each assessment roll number in dispute requires changes to your assessment without your need to a separate fully completed set of complaint • Lot size file a formal complaint. forms and fee. • Building size 7. Please thoroughly review the instructions on • Age and condition of building It is important to talk to your assessor or visit www.crasc.ca before filing a complaint. Most your complaint form. • Selling prices of similar properties in similar concerns are resolved before complaints reach the areas. Assessment Review Board. How are my property taxes calculated? Your property taxes are calculated by multiplying Assessment/Tax Process your assessed value by the “tax rate”. Date specified 60 days from date of How your property assessment changed from the July 1, 2019 April, 2020 January–June, 2020 on the tax notice assessment notice previous year compared to the average assessment change on all properties in the Assessments Government of Assessment notices Deadline to pay Deadline to file municipality determines the change in the share for 2020 tax year Alberta notifies the are mailed to all property taxes complaint you will pay of the municipality’s property tax based on market municipality about property owners for without penalty value of property its education tax the 2020 tax year requirement. as of this date requirements and The “tax rate” is determined annually by your Council decides the tax rates Customer review period municipality’s council. It includes the provincial education tax that the council has no control over.