Laval residents will see their municipal taxes increase by 1.9% in 2025. As in Montreal, this is a smaller increase than in recent years, which will still increase the bill by around $80 for residents. owners of single-family homes.
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This is what the administration of Mayor Stéphane Boyer will announce this Wednesday, who must present his 2025 budget shortly. The tax increase has nevertheless already been adopted by the City’s executive council.
Both residential and commercial property owners will see a 1.9% increase in their tax bills. For a single-family home, we are therefore talking on average of an upward variation of $78, and for a condo, an additional $47.
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The mayor of Laval, Stéphane Boyer
“We committed to doing everything we could to limit tax increases to inflation and we are very happy to respect our promise,” responded the mayor’s office in writing.
This is a fairly similar proportion, although a little lighter, compared to Montreal. Valérie Plante’s administration had promised to limit the increase in residential taxes to 1.8%, but taking into account the increases voted in the various boroughs, the average growth totals 2.2% for residential buildings and 1.9 % for non-residential buildings.
As mentioned last year, the Laval administration is committed this year to freezing its workforce in 2025, in other words not to increase the number of its employees. At the start of 2023, the City also abandoned a mega-project for a biomethanization plant worth 300 million, due to excessively high costs.
In 2024, Laval homeowners experienced an average increase of 4.8% in their residential municipal tax bill. This increase then represented $162 for an average house. The previous year, in 2023, the tax increase was around 2.9%.
Longueuil and Quebec
We do not yet know what fate will be reserved for the residents of Longueuil, on the South Shore of Montreal, with Catherine Fournier’s administration due to unveil its budget in mid-December. In Quebec, Mayor Bruno Marchand has already confirmed that the increase would be below 3.3%, the level of inflation, without giving further details.
Elsewhere in Quebec, the expected increase is 3.27% in Sherbrooke, then 3.18% in Gatineau, which also risks imposing a jump of 4.18% in the commercial sector.
Unlike taxes, which increase automatically with citizens’ income, taxing property values requires reviewing the level of taxation each year. However, experts are increasingly calling on cities to get rid of their dependence on property taxes, which often constitute the bulk of their revenue.
