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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF ASSIGINACK
BY-LAW # 2026-14
BEING A BY-LAW to provide for the adoption of tax rates and to
further provide for penalty and interest in default of payment
thereof for 2026
WHEREAS Section 312 of The Municipal Act, 2001, as amended provides
that the Council of a local municipality shall, after the adoption of
estimates for the year, pass a by-law to levy a separate tax rate on the
assessment in each property class, and;
AND WHEREAS Council has set tax ratios by By-Law 2026-13, and;
AND WHEREAS the 2026 levy for municipal purposes is $3,280,024
and;
AND WHEREAS the 2026 levy for education purposes has been set at
$348,963 and;
AND WHEREAS certain education rates are provided in various
regulations and commercial and industrial education amounts have been
requisitioned by the Province,
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of Township of
Assiginack ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. That the tax rates for 2026 for municipal and education purposes be
hereby set as follows
CLASS MUNICIPAL | EDUCATION TOTAL
RATE RATE RATE
Residential 0.01790986 0.00153000; 0.01943986
Multi-Residential 0.01790986 0.00153000 | 0.01943986
Commercial 0.01701437 0.00842583 0.02544020
Occupied
Commercial 0.01191006 0.00842583 0.02033589
Vacant
Industrial 0.01379059 0.00676308 | 0.02055367
Occupied
Industrial Vacant 0.00896388 0.00676308 0.01572696
Pipelines 0.02008591 0.00000000 0.02008591
Landfill 0.01701437 0.00980000 0.02681437
Farm 0.00447747 0.00038250| 0.00485997
Managed Forest 0.00447747 0.00038250 0.00485997
Aggregate Ext 0.01122149 0.00511000 | 0.01633149
2. THAT every owner shall be taxed according to the tax rates in this by-
law and such tax shall become due and payable in 2 installments as
follows:
50% of the final levy shall become due and payable on the 12th day of
August 2026; and the balance of the final levy shall become due and
payable on the 14th day of October 2026.
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3. Non-payment of the amount, as noted, on the dates stated in
accordance with this by-law constitutes default. On all taxes of this
levy, which are in default after the 12th day of August and after the
14th day of October 2026, a penalty of 1.25 percent shall be added.
And thereafter a penalty of 1.25 percent per month will be added on
the first day of each and every month the default continues, until
December 31°, 2026.
4. On all taxes unpaid as of December 31°, 2026, interest shall be added
at the rate of 1.25 percent per month, for each month or fraction
thereof in which the arrears continue.
5. All taxes are due and payable to the Township of Assiginack, at the
municipal office in Manitowaning, Ontario.
Read for a First and Second time this May 5, 2026
Read for a Third and Final time and Enacted in Open Council this May 5,
2026
Mayor
Clerk ~~
Seal
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