Adjustment Requests

It is your responsibility to ensure your school support information is correct on your tax bill and on the voters' list.

If you wish to change your school support please review the following information and fill out the appropriate form to start the process.

Change of School Support Designation through MPAC

Property owners in Ontario are required to support a school board, even if they do not have children or their children are not currently attending school. In the case of a residential property occupied by tenants, the tenants can direct the school support for that property. By default, school support is directed to your municipality’s English Public School Board.

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is legislatively required to collect school support information and provide it in the assessment roll to every municipality and school board. By ensuring that you are supporting the school board of your choosing, you will be able to vote in the next municipal and school board election for trustees in that school board. Property owners, occupants, and tenants can update their school support designation online at mpac.ca/schoolsupport.

Change to Public School Support

Contact the Bluewater District School Board for more information.

• Application for Direction of Public School Support - Bluewater District School Board

Change to Catholic/Separate School Support

Visit the Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board's tax support page for more information.

• Application for Direction of Catholic Separate School Support - Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board 

Voter's List

It is important to confirm that you are on the Voters' List.

Visit Elections Ontario's Voter Registration service to ensure your information is up-to-date. 

Add or Remove Occupants From Your Property

• Did you move from a home you owned, to a rental property?
• Have your adult children permanently left home?
• Do you have new tenants?

If you answer yes to one of these questions, you may need to update the occupancy or school board support information for your property.

We encourage all Brockton property owners to contact MPAC directly to remove or add occupants to their property and update school board support information. Notifying MPAC of these occupancy changes will help to make our Voters' List more accurate.

• MPAC Request for Occupant Information Form
  Please fill out this form and send it directly to MPAC to update the occupant and school support information for your property

Contact MPAC

Visit the MPAC Customer Contact Centre:

• Call, use the online contact form, or live chat option. 
• Please have your 19-digit roll number available. Your roll number can be found on your Property Assessment Notice or municipal tax bill.

Registered charities may be eligible for property tax reduction. For more information, or to apply please view our Charity Rebate Form.

If you wish to request any changes to property class, assessed value, etc. please fill out a Request for Reconsideration Form through the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation.

The deadline for completing this form is March 31 of the taxation year to which the application applies.

Tax adjustments can be requested if one of the following has affected you or your property:

• A building destroyed by fire
• Demolition or otherwise
• Mobile home unit removed
• Sickness or extreme poverty
• Gross or manifest clerical/factual error
• Building damaged and substantially unusable
• Ceases to be liable at tax rate it was taxed
• Exemption due to renovations preventing normal use (minimum 3 months)

Please fill out a Section 357/358 Form to request a tax adjustment.

Eligible persons can apply for property tax relief against property tax increases on eligible property in accordance with County of Bruce By-Law 4087. The program, in accordance with Section 319 of the Municipal Act, 2001, allows for property tax increases in excess of $500.00 to be deferred until the eligible property is sold, or the person ceases to be an eligible person for a period of two consecutive years. At which time all tax relief ceases and all deferred tax amounts, together with accumulated interest  become a debt payable to the Municipality.

If you fit the definition of an eligible person and own eligible property, as defined in the by-law, please fill out an Application for Deferral of Taxes for Low-Income Seniors and Low-Income Disabled Residents.

The deadline for completing this form is December 31 of the taxation year to which the application applies.