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Property Tax Services | Ontario


Colliers Realty Tax Legal Services Professional Corporation (Colliers Property Tax) provides advisory and advocacy services to owners and users of all forms of real estate in Ontario. Our mandate is to ensure our clients pay no more than their fair share of property taxes by verifying assessment and real estate market data, providing pre-assessment roll discussions and post roll negotiations, and conducting property tax assessment reviews and appeals.

Leveraging the industry leading valuation and advisory services of Colliers, we provide comprehensive property tax services. Our professionals have years of experience successfully navigating Ontario’s complicated property assessment and property tax system.
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Top 5 Reasons to Appeal Your 2023 Property Tax Assessment

Who Can Benefit from Colliers Property Tax Service?


  • Office Building
    Owners
    with investment assets seeking to minimize fixed costs such as property taxes to maximize net revenue and to offer the most competitive rents possible.
  • Occupiers
    not prepared to accept their property tax situation and treat it as a fixed cost. Generally over assessment translates to over taxation. Reduced property taxes help occupiers remain competitive in their marketplace and can improve the profitability of their business.
  • Assets
    Lenders
    focused on client services and risk.
  • Building Floor
    Tenants
    looking to maximize utility of leased premises. Reducing taxes improves bottom line performance

Services


Property Assessment and Tax Reviews and Appeals

As your property tax advisors, our primary objective is assisting you in ensuring that you are paying no more than your fair share of property taxes.


Municipal Tax Rebates

We process and manage numerous forms of tax rebate applications including Vacancy, Change in Use, Repairs and Renovation, Demolition, Gross Errors, Charity, and Heritage rebates.


Apportionment Work

Often properties, or portions of properties are taxed in incorrect classes, we are able to identify and correct these errors.


Property Tax Management & Budgeting

We conduct a thorough tax analysis to ensure our clients understanding the tax impact of any change in the assessment of their property. We review property assessment and taxes, provide tax projections for budgeting, future tax estimates and property/portfolio planning. Property assessments can be appealed annually. Municipalities typically release their annual budgets and tax rates in the spring or summer, well after the assessment appeal deadline. If you wait to receive your final tax bill, it is too late to appeal your assessment. Proactive property tax assessment reviews are required.

The Colliers Advantage


Colliers Property Tax combines deep market knowledge, advanced technology and experienced professionals to provide efficient service and creative solutions.

Colliers Property Tax has local experts across Canada, who extract information from the most comprehensive resource of brokers, property managers, operational maintenance, and appraisers. The result is a team familiar with all property types accessing resources unique to Colliers to assist you in maximizing your property tax savings and effectively managing your taxes.

Innovation

From a single commercial asset to a portfolio of properties, we provide you with accurate and timely information that will help you better understand the status of your current and potential future property tax liabilities and the assessed value of your assets.

Colliers prides itself on comprehensive knowledge of your property and all influences on its value.
The Colliers Advantage Innovation

Commitment to Quality

Our team of valuation and advocacy professionals provides advice and representation in all aspects of property tax assessment review and appeal services and property tax management. We leverage the diverse background of our experienced practitioners to assist you to identify and resolve errors, manage your property assessment and property tax and to appeal your property tax assessments where reviews indicate opportunities for tax savings. Each member of our team provides unique expertise and knowledge to our collaborative delivery of services. With our diverse backgrounds we consider each property from all angles to ensure no issue goes unaddressed.
The Colliers Advantage Commitment to Quality

Communication

We update our clients through every stage of our engagement. Our commitment is to ensure that throughout our engagement (including every step of the appeal process) our clients have abundant opportunity to make informed decisions of how they wish to proceed.
The Colliers Advantage Communication

Fee Schedule

Our fees are structured to meet the unique needs of each client. We provide our property tax services on a fixed budget, hourly or contingency fee basis. Whatever the nature or scope of our services our intent to earn your future business by delivering results which exceed your expectations
The Colliers Advantage Fee Schedule

Current Ontario Assessment Cycle

Top 6 Reasons


for an Advocacy First Approach to Property Tax Appeals


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The Assessment Review Board (ARB) requires that taxpayers' representatives be licensed by the Law Society of Ontario

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The ARB's Rules are complex, have been amended 9 times and are accompanied by several Practice Directions

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MPAC draws from a large team of in-house advocates to represent it in appeals

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Expert valuators have a duty to provide opinion evidence that is fair, objective and non-partisan

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Expert valuators have a duty to the ARB

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As advocates for taxpayers, licensed representatives are openly and necessarily partisan

Featured News

Jan 20, 2023

Two Property Tax Savings Opportunities in Ontario – 2023

The financial operations of commercial real estate have been dramatically impacted in the past few years. This is placing ever greater emphasis on reducing operating expenses.
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Nov 30, 2022

Property Tax Minimization Versus Management

There are two primary property tax services available to commercial real estate owners. The first is often referred to as property tax appeal services and the second as property tax management services.
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Why Ontarios property tax assessment system needs annual reassessments

Why Ontario's property tax assessment system needs annual reassessments

Property taxation in what is now Canada existed before Confederation. Over time, distinct systems have developed in each province built on a common foundation — property assessment based on market value.
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Recent Success


Northern Ontario - Industrial Facility

Size

1,189,214 SF situated on 62.22 ac.


Original Assessment

$7,038,000

 
Revised Assessment

$5,313,000


Tax Savings

$969,600


Assessment Reduction

26%

Brant, Ontario - Industrial Facility

Size

260,909 SF situated on 17.29 ac.


Original Assessment

$16,883,000


Revised Assessment

$13,592,000


Tax Savings

$330,000


Assessment Reduction

20%

Waterloo, Ontario - Suburban Office Building

Size

626,500 SF


Original Assessment

$127,979,000


Revised Assessment

$110,003,000


Tax Savings

$2.7M


Assessment Reduction

14%

Brampton, Ontario - Industrial Facility

Size

626,500 SF


Original Assessment

$11,067,000


Revised Assessment

$10,350,000


Revised Tax Class

Industrial to Commercial


Tax Savings

$337,800


Assessment Reduction

7%

Toronto, Ontario - Midtown Office Tower

Size

308,568 SF


Original Assessment

$103,966,000


Revised Assessment

$85,677,000


Tax Savings

$337,800


Assessment Reduction

18%

Toronto, Ontario - Single Tenant Office

Original Assessment

$8,847,000


Revised Assessment

$8,157,000


Revised Tax Class

Industrial to Residential


Tax Savings

$590,000


Assessment Reduction

8%

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