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# Arrears
### Payment Arrangements and Collections
If you require assistance with making payment arrangements, please contact [email protected] or call 905-563-2799 ext. 222, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
### Penalty & Interest
* Late payment charges are added to all past due taxes at a rate of 1.25% on the first day of default and on the first day of each month thereafter, as long as taxes or charges remain unpaid.
* Penalty and interest charges on overdue amounts cannot be waived or altered.
* Payments received are applied to interest first then the oldest outstanding tax balances.
### Sale of Land by Public Tender
In accordance with the *Municipal Act, 2001*the Town may take action to collect overdue property taxes and may register a tax arrears certificate when a property is in at least its second year of arrears (Municipal Act, 2001, Part XI Tax Sale).
Accounts remaining unpaid and where no suitable payment arrangements are made, a Sale of Land by Public Tender will begin once taxes have been in arrears for at least two years.
#### Process
* The Town registers a Tax Arrears Certificate on title of the property.
* Debtors have one year from the date of registration of the Tax Arrears Certificate to pay the cancellation price (i.e. all of the taxes levied and outstanding, all accrued penalty/interest, fees and costs).
* Failing payment within that year or not entering into of an extension agreement, requires the Treasurer to proceed with a sale of the property.
Contact [email protected] for further information or call (905) 563-2799 ext 224.