Final tax bills are starting to come out in Simcoe County. Here’s a little known fact: if you don’t pay your property taxes, your city can sell your house in order to collect them. When I was a law student, I prepared tax deeds for people buying these properties. There were people who lost their properties over a few thousand dollars in back taxes.
In Barrie, as in many municipalities, taxes are due four times a year. You can choose to pay in those quarterly instalments, or you can (usually) set up a payment plan and pay each month as a direct withdrawal. Some banks will also let you pay your taxes alongside your mortgage, and they will take care of sending the money over to the municipality, and some banks require that you pay your taxes through your mortgage.
However you pay your taxes, just be sure that you pay them.
