3626-2023 Tax Rates for 2023
BEING A BY-LAW TO ADOPT THE YEARLY ESTIMATES AND TAX RATES AND TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR PENALTY AND INTEREST IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT
Passed by Council March 13, 2023
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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF AUGUSTA
BY-LAW NUMBER 3626-2023
BEING A BY-LAW TO ADOPT THE YEARLY ESTIMATES AND TAX RATES AND TO
FURTHER PROVIDE FOR PENALTY AND INTEREST IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT
WHEREAS Section 290 of the Municipal Act S.O. 2001 c.25, states that a local
municipality shall in each year prepare and adopt a budget including estimates of all sums
required during the year provides that the Municipal Councils shall adopt an estimated
levy for the current year and pass a By-Law to levy a separate tax rate on the assessment
in each property class:
AND WHEREAS sections of the said Act require tax rates be established in the same
proportion to tax ratios:
AND WHEREAS certain regulations require reductions in certain tax rates for certain
classes or subclasses of property:
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Augusta hereby
enacts as follows that:
1 The Council hereby adopts a tax levy of $5606456 for all purposes for 2023.
2. That a tax rate of 0.00663755 is hereby adopted to be applied against the whole
of the assessment for real property in the residential/farm class.
3. That a tax rate of 0.00663755 is hereby adopted to be applied against the whole
of the assessment for real property of the multi-residential class.
4. That a tax rate of 0.00893679 is hereby adopted to be applied against the whole
of the assessment for real property in the commercial occupied class.
5. That a tax rate of 0.00625576 is hereby adopted to be applied against the whole
of the assessment for real property in the commercial vacant units and vacant land
classes.
6. That a tax rate of 0.00893679 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the New Commercial Construction tax class.
7. That a tax rate of 0.01202325 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the industrial occupied tax class.
8. That a tax rate of 0.00781512 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the industrial vacant units and industrial vacant
land tax classes.
9. That a tax rate of 0.01202325 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the New Industrial construction tax class.
10. That a tax rate of 0.01 860837 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the Large Industrial Occupied tax class.
11 .That a tax rate of 0.01209544 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in Large industrial vacant land tax class.
12.That a tax rate of 0.01096581 is herby adopted to be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the pipelines tax class.
13.That a tax rate of 0.00165939 is herby adopted to. be applied against the whole of
the assessment for real property in the farmland and managed forests tax classes.
14. That every owner of land shall be taxed according to the tax rates in this By-Law
and such tax shall become due and payable on the 30th day of September 2023.
15. On all taxes in default on the 1st day of October, a penalty of 1.25% shall be added
and thereafter a penalty of 1.25% per month will be added on the 1st day of each
month the default continues until December 31, 2023. The date payment is
received at the Township office will be taken as the date paid on taxes paid by mail.
The date received in the Townships bank account will be taken as the date paid
on taxes paid at a banking institution, by telephone banking or internet banking.
The Treasurer has no authority to waive any penalty.
16.On all taxes in default on January 1st 2024, interest shall be added at the rate of
1.25% per month on the first day of each month the default continues.
17. Penalties and interest added in default, shall become due and payable and shall
be collected as if the same had originally been imposed and form part of such
unpaid tax levy.
18. The Treasurer, not later than 21 days prior to the date that the instalment is due,
shall mail or cause to be mailed the address of the residence or place of the
business of each person a notice setting out the tax payment or payments required
to be made pursuant to this By-Law, the date by which they are to be paid to avoid
penalty and the particulars of the penalties imposed by this By-Law for late
payments.
19.Where arrears of taxes exist, any payment towards taxes received shall first be
applied against penalty and interest then arrears until fully paid, before being
applied against current taxes.
20. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer immediately after the date named in Section
19 to collect by distress or otherwise under the statutes in that behalf all such tax
instalments or parts thereof as shall not have been paid on or before the respective
dates provided aforesaid together with the said percentage charges as they are
incurred.
21.Taxes shall be payable to the Township of Augusta at the Township Office, 3560
County Road 26, Prescott, Ontario KOE 1TO, by mail or in person. Taxes may also
be paid through a financial institution, to the credit of the Township of Augusta
either directly, by telephone or internet.
22.That the sum of the yearly expenditure estimates to be adopted by the Council of
the Corporation of the Township of Augusta for the 2023 Budget Year are detailed
in Schedule A to the By-Law.
23.That as per suggestion of the Auditor that all surplus funds from the year 2022 be
transferred into general reserves for the 2023.
24. By-Law 3563-2022 is hereby repealed.
Read a first, second, and third time and finally passed this 13th day of March 2023.
Signed by Mayor Jeff Shaver and Clerk Annette Simonian
SCHEDULE A
TO BY-LAW NUMBER 3626-2023
The sum of yearly expenditure estimates to be adopted by the Council of the
Corporation of the Township of Augusta for the 2023 Budget Year are $9,083,330 and
are broken down as follows:
General Government
Council $151,130
Administration $1,088,806
Protection to Persons and Property
Fire $858,061
CEMP $17,750
Policing $967,013
Conservation Authority $50,402
Building Inspection $171,250
By-Law Enforcement $42,150
Transportation Services
Roads $1,695,427
Streetlighting $16,165
Vehicles $280,000
Environmental Services
Waste Management $471,950
Health Services
Cemeteries $6,000
Recreation And Cultural Services
Recreation Programs $191,350
Library $157,008
Donations $6,000
Planning
Planning $176,260
Economic Development $245,930
Agriculture/Drainage $37,800
Capital Expenditure $2,452,878
