Local improvements are infrastructure work to develop or enhance an area. Owners who benefit from the improvements pay a tax to cover, in part or in full, the reimbursement of loans taken out to fund the work.

Receiving your local improvement tax bill

The first year

If you are being charged a local improvement tax for the first time, you will receive a separate bill from your annual tax account.

This bill will specify the capital that must be reimbursed and the terms of the loan. 
The bill is generally payable 30 days after it is sent.

Subsequent years

In the subsequent years, the local improvement tax will be imposed and collected with the annual municipal tax account.

Paying your local improvement tax bill

Full reimbursement of the tax

You can choose to reimburse the balance of any of the work types that are billed as you would a mortgage.

For example, if loans were taken out to pave and light your street, you can choose to reimburse the paving or the lighting debt in full.

Reimbursement of the balance does not apply for certain enhancements.

To pay your balance in full, please go to an Accès Montréal office.

Additional fees

Fees may apply in the following cases:

• Return of a check (insufficient funds in the account)
• Request to withdraw a sent check
• Issuance of a refund check for a payment exceeding the invoice amount

Participating financial institutions

• CIBC Bank
• Laurentian Bank
• National Bank of Canada
• Scotia Bank
• BMO Financial Group
• Desjardins (AccèsD)
• TD Bank Financial Group
• RBC Royal Bank