Fact Sheet - 2019 Assessment Roll Return

• MPAC delivers an assessment roll annually to municipalities and the Province of Ontario to support the calculation of property and education taxes.
• While 2019 is not a province-wide Assessment Update year, MPAC reviews properties and updates property information regularly to return an accurate assessment roll each year.
• In November, MPAC mailed more than 800,000 Property Assessments Notices to property owners reflecting changes in assessment that have taken place over the last year.

Assessment Roll

• Total number of properties on the Assessment Roll: 5,360,528
• Total Current Value Assessment: $2.96 trillion

New Assessment

• In 2019, MPAC captured $37.05 billion in new assessment
• New assessment refers to new construction and/or additions to existing property that have been recently completed and assessed during the year.

Assessment summary by property type:

Breakdown of changes triggering a Property Assessment Notice:*

• Ownership change - 378,631
• School support - 280,906
• Mailing address - 245,147
• Property value - 183,643
• Tax apportionment - 165,734

*Properties may have more than one change triggering a Property Assessment Notice.

Requests for Reconsideration:

• If a property owner is concerned with their property’s assessment, MPAC will review it free of charge through a Request for Reconsideration (RfR)
• From January 1 to October 31, 2019, MPAC completed a total of 15,002 RfRs. This reflects:
  • 9,646 residential
  • 1,487 farm
  • 3,580 business
  • 289 other
• The total number of RfRs represents 0.28% of Ontario’s more than 5 million properties