Vancouver property tax calculator
$2,523 a year on $750,000 of assessed value, at 0.3364%. Not one tax — 6 of them on the same assessment, and the assessment is a 1 July 2025 value.
Written and edited by Pablo Ruiz QuinteroSources checked September 1, 2026Rates read off City of Vancouver — Residential property tax rates (2026) on 2026-09-07The value on your assessment notice, not the market price. BC Assessment sets it as at 1 July 2025.
$210 a month · 0.3364% of assessed value
| General purposes 0.1934% | $1,451 |
| Provincial school tax 0.098% | $735 |
| TransLink 0.0359% | $269 |
| Metro Vancouver 0.0053% | $39 |
| BC Assessment Authority 0.0038% | $29 |
| Municipal Finance Authority 0% | $0 |
| Total | $2,523 |
6 separate bodies levy on the same assessment here. This is the amount levied, before any rebate, grant or deferral you may be entitled to — those are claimed separately.
What Vancouver charges, line by line
Vancouver's 2026 residential rate is 0.3364% — $2,523 a year on an assessed value of $750,000, or $210 a month. It is not one tax. It is 6 of them on the same assessment:
General purposes — 0.1934% — $1,451. The city's own share.
Provincial school tax — 0.098% — $735.
TransLink — 0.0359% — $269. The regional transportation authority levies directly.
Metro Vancouver — 0.0053% — $39.
BC Assessment Authority — 0.0038% — $29. The body that values the property charges for doing it.
Municipal Finance Authority — 0% — $0.
Vancouver has the lowest rate of any major Canadian city by a distance, and the bills are not low. Six separate bodies levy on the same assessment, and the city keeps a little over half of it.
And the number it multiplies is a 1 July 2025 value
Vancouver taxes the assessed value set by BC Assessment as at 1 July 2025. That date does more work than the rate does, and it is the part people get wrong when they check a calculator against their bill.
British Columbia revalues every year at 1 July of the year before, so a 2026 bill runs on a July 2025 market value. Your assessment moves with the market, which means your bill can rise in a year the council did not raise the rate — and can fall in a year it did.
So take the assessed value off your assessment notice, not off a listing site, and the arithmetic above will match your bill to the cent.
Two British Columbia rules that change the number on your notice
The home owner grant reduces what you actually pay on a principal residence, and it is not automatic — you apply every year, and only one grant per property. It is reduced above an assessed-value threshold and disappears entirely above a higher one, and you must still pay a minimum of $350 in property tax ($100 for those eligible for the additional grant, such as seniors, veterans and people with a disability).
One change is worth knowing about now: effective 1 January 2027 the regular grant is $570 everywhere in B.C., and the $200 extra for northern and rural properties is eliminated. For a northern homeowner that is $200 a year, arriving without any rate having changed.
The additional school tax applies to residential property assessed above $3,000,000, before land averaging. In Vancouver that is not an exotic case, and it sits on top of everything in the table above.
Neither is applied to the figure here. The grant is claimed after the bill is issued, and the additional school tax needs the assessment before averaging, which is not the number most people have to hand.
Vancouver is the cheapest — and that means less than it sounds
Same $750,000 of assessed value, six cities, 2026 rates:
1. Vancouver — $2,523 at 0.3364% ← this page.
2. Calgary — $4,987 at 0.665%.
3. Toronto — $5,755 at 0.7673%.
4. Edmonton — $7,773 at 1.0364%.
5. Mississauga — $8,159 at 1.0879%.
6. Kitchener — $10,545 at 1.406%.
7. Hamilton — $11,679 at 1.5572%.
Before drawing any conclusion from that order, remember what the rate is: the council's budget divided by everything it can tax. Vancouver is at the top of the cheap end because property there is worth a great deal, not because its council is frugal, and Hamilton is at the bottom for the mirror-image reason.
The comparison that would actually mean something is the tax on the house you would buy in each city, and that is a different sum in each. Change the assessed value in the calculator to yours and the ranking may well reorder.
Your 2026 Ontario tax bill runs on what your house was worth in 2016
Not a typo, and not an approximation. Ontario property tax for 2026 is calculated on the assessed value at 1 January 2016 — 10 years ago. MPAC, the provincial body that values every property in Ontario, has not carried out a province-wide reassessment since 2016.
The 2020 update was postponed for the pandemic, and in August 2023 the province filed a regulation extending the postponement through the end of the 2021–2024 cycle. The postponement has outlived its reason by some margin, and the base has stayed where it was.
Two consequences that matter to you. What you paid for the house is irrelevant — buying in 2023 at 2023 prices does not change your assessment, which is still a 2016 figure. And the freeze is not neutral: neighbourhoods that rose faster than average since 2016 are undertaxed relative to the ones that rose slower, and every year the freeze continues the gap widens. When the reassessment finally lands it will move bills sharply in both directions without any council raising a rate.
So if you are checking an Ontario figure against your bill, use the assessed value on your MPAC notice, not what a realtor says the house is worth. In Alberta and British Columbia the question does not arise: both value at 1 July of the year before the tax year, so a 2026 bill there runs on a July 2025 market value.
Where every rate on this page came from
Municipal rates are not published in one place, because no one body sets them. Each of these was read off the document that approves it, with the date it was read:
City of Toronto — Property tax rates and fees, 2026 Property Tax Rates — read 2026-09-07. https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/property-taxes-utilities/property-tax/property-tax-rates-and-fees/
City of Hamilton — By-law 26-064, To Set and Levy the Rates of Taxation for the Year 2026 — read 2026-09-07. https://www.hamilton.ca/sites/default/files/2026-04/26-064.pdf
City of Mississauga — By-law 0061-2026, Schedule A, 2026 Final Tax Rates and Levy — read 2026-09-08. https://www.mississauga.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/01132447/2026-Tax-Ratios-2026-By-law-0061-2026.pdf
City of Kitchener — 2026 Final Tax Rates — read 2026-09-07. https://www.kitchener.ca/media/1itfipd0/2026-rates-remediated.pdf
City of Calgary — Current property tax rates — read 2026-09-07. https://www.calgary.ca/property-owners/taxes/current-rates.html
City of Edmonton — Property tax breakdown, 2026 rates under Bylaw 21442 — read 2026-09-07. https://www.edmonton.ca/residential_neighbourhoods/property_tax_assessment/tax-breakdown
City of Vancouver — Residential property tax rates — read 2026-09-07. https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/residential.aspx
MPAC — The Assessment Cycle (2026 taxes on 1 January 2016 values) — read 2026-09-07. https://www.mpac.ca/en/UnderstandingYourAssessment/AssessmentCycle
Province of British Columbia — Home owner grant — read 2026-09-07. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-taxes/annual-property-tax/home-owner-grant
And what this does not cover:
— Only the cities whose own 2026 rate document could be read are here. Ottawa is the one large Ontario city missing: it publishes a property tax estimator that will give you your own bill, but its 2026 rates appear in none of its published tax policy reports — three of them, 91 pages between them, with not one rate in any. It is not shown rather than shown with a guess.
— Rebates, deferrals and grants are not applied. British Columbia's home owner grant, Ontario's senior and disabled homeowner relief, and Alberta's deferral programmes all reduce what you actually pay, and each has its own application.
— Local improvement charges, business improvement area levies and garbage or water charges appear on the same bill in several of these cities and are not property tax. They are not included here.
— The figure assumes the ordinary residential class. Farm, managed forest, multi-residential and new multi-residential are taxed at different rates in every city on this list.
— British Columbia charges an additional school tax on residential property assessed above $3 million, and it is not applied here.
Where to go next
Questions
- What is the property tax rate in Vancouver for 2026?
- 0.3364% on residential property, made up of 6 separate levies: General purposes at 0.1934%, Provincial school tax at 0.098%, TransLink at 0.0359%, Metro Vancouver at 0.0053%, BC Assessment Authority at 0.0038%, Municipal Finance Authority at 0%. On $750,000 of assessed value that is $2,523 a year.
- How much is property tax on a $750,000 house in Vancouver?
- $2,523 a year, $210 a month — provided $750,000 is the assessed value rather than the market price. In British Columbia the assessment is a 1 July 2025 value set by BC Assessment.
- When is Vancouver property assessed?
- At 1 July 2025, by BC Assessment. British Columbia revalues every year, so your assessment moves with the market and your bill can change without the council changing the rate.
- Does this include rebates and grants?
- No. This is the levy before any relief. Rebates and deferrals for seniors, people with a disability and low-income owners exist in all three provinces here, each applied for separately, and British Columbia's home owner grant is claimed every year after the bill is issued.