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Home & Neighbourhood Taxes
Your property taxes help pay for City services like parks, emergency services, recreation facilities, road maintenance and snow removal.
Property taxes are due by June 30, 2025.
Ever wonder how your property taxes are calculated and what they pay for? This quick video breaks it down in a simple, easy-to-follow way.
Every year, City Council approves a budget to fund the services that keep Beaumont running. Property taxes play a role in covering those costs. The total amount needed each year to fund the budget is called the annual tax requirement.
While the year-to-year change in the tax requirement is often referred to as a tax increase or tax cut, there are other factors that affect the amount of municipal property taxes you pay as an individual.
So that each property owner contributes a fair and equitable share of the tax requirement, the City sets a municipal tax rate.
To calculate the municipal tax rate, the City uses the total amount needed in municipal property taxes and the total assessment value of all properties in the City of Beaumont. The cost of services is distributed among all properties in Beaumont.
Here’s how the math works:
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Then to determine the exact amount each property owner is required to pay; the City applies this tax rate to the value of your property in the following way:
The amount you pay in municipal property taxes may go up or down based on the above calculations, but it does not affect the overall tax requirement set by the City.
For example, an individual home where the assessed value increased from the previous year may also pay a higher amount in taxes than a home where the assessed value didn’t change.
All municipalities have to collect education taxes on behalf of the Government of Alberta. Also included in the City of Beaumont’s portion of the property taxes is a fee for the RCMP contract, which was negotiated by the federal government in September 2024.
Beaumont’s rates remain competitive. The chart below compares the property tax amounts in other municipalities.
The owner of a home assessed at $471,000 will pay $161.77 more – $13.48 per month – for municipal property taxes in 2025.
The Tax Installment Plan (TIPS) permits taxpayers to authorize 12 equal automatic monthly withdrawals from your selected bank account to be applied against your property taxes, rather than 1 single annual payment on June 30.
The taxation year is the calendar year, January 1 to December 31.
Tax penalties are legislated by Council (as per Bylaw 980-20) and cannot be waived, unless otherwise directed by Council.
Additional penalties apply if your taxes remain unpaid.
* Current levy indicates only the current year’s property taxes.
Assessment is the process of assigning a dollar value to a property for taxation purposes. This value is used to calculate the amount of taxes that will be charged to the owner of the property. Taxation is the process of applying a tax rate to a property’s assessed value to determine the taxes payable by the owner of the property.
A tax certificate shows the property tax requirement in the current year, the amount of taxes owing and the total amount of tax arrears, if any. They can be required for property sales. Lawyers and agents from your financial institution are able to request them on your behalf, through Virtual City Hall (email receivables@beaumont.ab.ca to sign up for VCH). Tax certificates requested through VCH are available on demand. Requests can also be emailed to taxes@beaumont.ab.ca, but can take up to 48 hours.
Tax balances are also available, at no cost, through Virtual City Hall or by contacting the Tax department.
Tax certificates include:
This service costs $25 and is invoiced when the tax certificate is prepared. Tax certificates are processed a few times a week and completed tax certificates are emailed. Hardcopies can be requested and mailed. For more information or questions regarding tax certificates, please contact the Tax department.
An assessment is the process of placing a dollar value on a property for taxation purposes and is governed by provincial legislation. The market value is the price a property might reasonably be expected to sell for. The assessment is based on the previous years’ July market value.
Private appraisers, acting on behalf of financial institutions or agencies, evaluate property according to market conditions on the day they complete the appraisal. Municipal assessors determine the property values and conditions at set dates to ensure that all municipal assessments and subsequent taxation have a fair and equal base.
Taxes are due on June 30 of each year.
Payment info is available on our Pay & Apply page.
Contact the tax department (780-929-3306) to review your assessment. If necessary, your concerns will be forwarded to our assessor who will contact you directly. If the assessor agrees that the original is not accurate, a corrected notice may be issued. If the assessor and property owner cannot come to an agreement, the property owner may begin the formal complaint process.
While all Beaumont ratepayers receive an assessment notice in February and a tax notice in May each year, Beaumont approves a Supplementary Assessment Bylaw that provides for a second assessment on properties where improvements have received a final occupancy inspection report in the current year. The Supplementary Assessment & Tax Notice will be prorated to reflect only the number of days from which the final occupancy inspection report is issued.
Supplementary Assessment Notices will be issued in October, with payment due 30 days from mailing.