POA Tax Rolling Best Practices Tool Kit

May 5, 2015

Notice to all Members

RE: Roll out of the POA Tax Rolling Best Practices Toolkit

The POA Tax Rolling Committee is pleased to present and share the POA Tax Rolling Best Practice Package.  It is a tool kit to allow your municipality to participate in a network of municipalities that tax roll POA fines.

The kit contains:

• A copy of the Draft Agreement between the pilot team of municipalities that currently tax roll each other’s fines
• Sample Procedures for tax rolling fines
• A list of the participating pilot committee members (see below)
• Tax Rolling Pilot Statistics

The agreement sets clear expectations of all parties. In addition to your own municipal review, we encourage you to have legal counsel review the agreement. Your municipality is invited to use this agreement in order to tax roll fines through inter-municipal partners.  If you become a party to the agreement, you will manage the agreement with the other municipal partners.

The procedures are intended as a guideline of best practices for you. Your municipality should modify them based on your own circumstances and determinations on best practices.

The pilot team has found inter-municipal tax rolling to be a highly effective and efficient method for collecting overdue fines that would otherwise have been difficult to collect.

The pilot team has attached the preliminary result of the pilot.  There has been success with POA fines being recovered from various municipalities participating in the pilot.

While tax rolling is a useful tool for tax collection, it has its limits and OMTRA continues to lobby the province for additional enhancements to our fine collection abilities.

The toolkit is being communicated to all OMTRA members through eVoice as well as being posted to the OMTRA website under best practices.  Please send any questions about the tool kit or inter-municipal tax rolling to webmaster@omtra.ca.

The Association wishes to thank the participants of the POA Tax Rolling Committee, their efforts in working through the process and presenting a best practice documents to member is greatly appreciated.

Ontario Municipal Tax and Revenue Association, Committee Members:

Angie Finateri, City of Ottawa

Casey Brendon, City of Toronto

Christi Norris, City of Kawartha Lakes

Connie Mesih, City of Mississauga

Ross Rae, County of Hastings

Susan Howard, City of Belleville

Wendy Stephanson, City of Ottawa