{
 "answer": "The Municipality of Highlands East, Ontario has 1 adopted bylaw on file: By-law 2025-14 — 2025 Final Tax Rates (Municipality of Highlands East), verified 2026-10-26.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001554",
 "municipality": "Highlands East",
 "status_type": "Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "tax_assessment",
 "label": "Property tax & assessment",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-10-26",
 "official_website": "http://www.highlandseast.ca/",
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   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law 2025-14 — 2025 Final Tax Rates (Municipality of Highlands East)",
   "category": "tax_assessment",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2025-03-11",
   "document_url": "https://highlandseast.civicweb.net/document/435773",
   "summary": "Adopts 2025 estimates and tax rates under Municipal Act s.312; approved March 11, 2025. Newest rates by-law on the by-law page; 2026 rates are on the Tax Rates web page.",
   "discovered_by": "on-proptax",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-15",
   "capture_sha256": "62f24e0abffe55cddb3f3b1b2de282b55c99eea33b8226c45d3a168ef7fca70b",
   "captured_at": "2026-10-16T01:27:38+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "document_number": "2025-14",
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/62f24e0abffe55cddb3f3b1b2de282b55c99eea33b8226c45d3a168ef7fca70b.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "tax_rate": "0.00593766 residential; 0.00880376 commercial; 0.01020149 industrial; 0.00827353 multi-residential; 0.00148441 managed forest; 0.00148441 farmlands; 0.00616263 commercial vacant land; 0.00616263 commercial vacant units/excess land; 0.00714104 industrial vacant land; 0.00714104 industrial vacant units/excess land; 0.00652875 aggregate extraction land; 0.00653142 landfill"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "tax_rate": "s. 1–s. 12"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/highlands-east/property-tax/bylaw-2025-14/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "2026 Tax Rates (Highlands East)",
   "category": "tax_assessment",
   "document_type": "announcement",
   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.highlandseast.ca/live-here/property-taxes/tax-rates/",
   "summary": "2026 and 2025 rates by class (county, municipal, school, total). 2026 residential total 0.01060624 (municipal 0.00621746, county 0.00285878, school 0.00153).",
   "discovered_by": "on-proptax",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-15",
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   "captured_at": "2026-10-16T01:27:38+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/2255d0a00aa36119142457dda6575603b925b827db775462d43eefcec5038b29.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/highlands-east/property-tax/2026-tax-rates/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
  {
   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Property Taxes (Highlands East)",
   "category": "tax_assessment",
   "document_type": "announcement",
   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.highlandseast.ca/live-here/property-taxes/",
   "summary": "Taxes due three times a year: two instalments (50%) billed February, due last banking day of March and May; final due last banking day of September. Late penalty 1.25% per month.",
   "discovered_by": "on-proptax",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-15",
   "capture_sha256": "b0e44997b05c5e58c53c95098e8579c3f73a7edcadca51952de3f36be49efb70",
   "captured_at": "2026-10-16T01:27:38+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/b0e44997b05c5e58c53c95098e8579c3f73a7edcadca51952de3f36be49efb70.html",
   "link_dead": false,
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/highlands-east/property-tax/property-taxes/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/highlands-east/property-tax/"
}