Tax Sales

The Municipal Tax Sales Act gives the Municipality the authority to register a property for tax sale if taxes are unpaid for two or more years.

The Municipality offers a Pre-Authorized Payment Plan (PAP) for properties in arrears. This is a property tax payment program that can help you keep your property out of a position of tax sale.

Current Sales:

Sale of Land - November 28, 2024

Tax sale process

A tax sale happens when the Municipality sells a property for unpaid taxes, as per the Ontario Municipal Act, 2001.

Before we put the property up for tax sale, the property owner receives a Final Demand letter letting them know that their property is up for tax sale. The letter provides a deadline by which the owner must contact us.

If the property owner does not contact us by the deadline, we register the property for tax sale. Notification of the registration is sent to:

Property owner
Mortgage holder
Anyone with a registered court judgment against the taxpayer

After registration occurs, the property owner has one year to pay the outstanding taxes in full. If the taxes are not paid in full within the year, the property is put up for tax sale.

Purchasing a tax sale property

To bid on a tax sale property, complete the following 5 steps:

Determine your bid amount, which must be greater than the minimum tender amount.
Complete Form 7 – Tender to Purchase.
Obtain a money order, bank draft, or certified cheque of at least 20% of your bid amount.
Insert your completed Form 7 and bid deposit in a sealed envelope labelled with the required information.
Submit your tender in person or mail to:

Trent Lakes

760 Peterborough County Road 36

Trent Lakes ON K0M 1A0

Make sure that it gets to us before the tax sale closing date and time.

Please review the full instructions for submitting a tender and the tenderer's checklist before bidding on a property.