Property taxes pay for the services we rely on every day. But residents shouldn’t need to dig through hundreds of pages of budget documents to understand where their money goes.
You pay the bill. You should be able to understand it.
If your County property tax bill is $5,000, you should be able to see how that $5,000 is allocated across the services and priorities the County funds.
Roads and infrastructure. Emergency Services. Libraries. Parks and recreation. Waste collection. Administration. Major capital projects.
Not an accounting textbook. A simple breakdown residents can actually understand.
Illustrative example based on the County of Brant’s approved 2026 budget. Categories have been simplified for presentation. A real tax breakdown would calculate amounts using each property’s County tax contribution and the approved municipal budget.
If a resident’s County tax bill rises from $5,000 to $5,250, they should be able to see what drove that increase.
Illustrative example only. This shows how a $250 increase could be explained category by category. Actual year-over-year changes would reflect the County’s approved budget and each property’s County tax contribution.
That $250 increase shouldn’t just appear on your bill. You should be able to see which services, projects and budget decisions caused it — in plain language.
Residents may not agree with every decision Council makes. But they should never have to guess why their bill changed.
Budgets are complicated. That doesn’t mean the information we give residents has to be.
I want the County of Brant to make property tax information useful, accessible and understandable for the people paying the bill.