Payment of Taxes (Authorized Collection Agencies)
Full or partial payment may be made by the due date at the City Hall (corner of Douglas Crescent and 204th Street) or at most branches of your local Canadian Bank or Credit Union.
If making a payment on the due date, please check your bank stamp to ensure the correct date. All payment dates after the due date will be subject to penalties. Payments made at external agencies may be subject to a service charge.
Taxes paid by mortgage companies
You must still apply for the Homeowners Grant if eligible, by the due date to avoid penalties
Penalties
A 5% penalty will be added to the outstanding residential current taxes remaining unpaid after the due date, and a further 5% will be added after August 3. These penalties are also applicable to the Home Owner Grant portion of your taxes if you do not apply by the due date.
Interest on unpaid taxes from prior years
Interest is charged at the prevailing rate from January 1st of this year to the date payment is received. For convenience, the interest shown on the tax notice has been calculated for the due date. The interest rate is set by the Province on the 1st day of January, May, and September.
Delinquent taxes
At 10 a.m. on the last Monday in September, at the council chambers, the collector must conduct the annual tax sale by offering for sale by public auction each parcel of real property on which taxes are delinquent. If taxes are delinquent, a property will be sold for taxes unless the delinquent taxes plus interest are sooner paid.
Receipts
To reduce civic expenses, please accept your cancelled cheque as your receipt. Detach and enclose the remittance stub with your payment. However, if you require a receipted tax statement, send the entire tax notice with a note attached requesting a receipt. The receipt is void if the cheque is dishonoured.
Property sold
If you no longer own this property, please forward this tax notice to the new owners or return it to the City of Langley advising us of the new owner's name and address.
New Owners
If your name does not appear on the tax notice as the registered owner please send a copy of the Transfer of Fee Simple or other document conveying the property to you showing the registration and the date of registration at the Land Titles Office to our office.
For further information
Please email the Finance Department at tax@langleycity.ca or telephone 604.514.2809.