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🚨 Brampton Breakdown 🚨

Over $150M in unpaid property taxes in 2024.
That’s a $40M jump from the year before. When even the city can’t collect, you know the system is cracking.

High inflation. Crushing cost of living. Families buckling under debt.

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The data comes from a City of Brampton report at last week’s committee of council meeting and shows a massive $40.5 million spike in unpaid property taxes last year compared to 2023.

More than $1.3 billion in property taxes were billed in 2023 with over $110 owing at the end of the year, while 2024 saw more than $1.4 billion billed, with $151 million owing.

There was also a five-times increase in the number of accounts sent to a bailiff for collection last year, up from 234 outstanding in 2023 to 1,170 in 2024.

More than 10 per cent of all billed properties failed to pay their 2024 taxes by Dec. 1 of that year, up from 8.3 per cent in 2023.

Over 30 accounts were also found to be “uncollectible,” meaning the balances of a combined $253,796.25 will be written off by the city and paid with funds from the city’s Allowance for Doubtful Taxes purse of $2.6 million.

Overdue property tax notices are mailed to the taxpayers in arrears in May and October. Collection letters are then sent out once an account is in default for two years, and failure to pay in the third year could lead to the home being sold as a “Tax Sale” to recoup owed taxes.