Taxation
Tax
Bills
Tax Bills are issued twice
each year generally in early March and early September. Each bill has two
instalments to be paid on or before the due date shown.
Pay Taxes
Calculation of
Taxes
Your property taxes are
determined by multiplying the Current Value Assessment of your property by the
annual Tax Rate for the Property Class. The 2017 Total Tax Rates for each
property class in Essa are shown below. These tax rates include Township, County
and Education Taxes. Business Improvement Area Tax Rate is added to these rates
and applied to specific properties (see 2017 Special Area
Rates).
Tax
Calculation
Current Value Assessment X
Total Tax Rate/property class = Total Property Taxes
| 2017 Tax Rates - Municipal/County/Education |
| Property Class | Total Tax Rate |
| Residential / Farm | 0.730300% |
Multi-Residential
| 0.952956% |
| Commercial Occupied | 1.830283%
|
| Commercial Vacant | 1.281198% |
Industrial Occupied
| 2.238175% |
Industrial Vacant
| 1.454814% |
| Pipelines | 2.050623% |
| Farmlands | 0.182575% |
Managed Forest
| 0.182575% |
2017 Special Area Rates - Business Improvement Area |
Commercial Occupied
| 0.053535% |
