Attention News Editors:

Additional names included on some property tax bills

TORONTO, June 11 /CNW/ - Finance - The City of Toronto is currently mailing the 2001 final tax bills to city property owners. By Monday, June 11, all 580,000 bills will have been mailed. However, some of the bills will have the name of a third resident identified as an "assessed owner(s)". Due to a technical problem, the computer program that selects up to two assessed owner(s) names for printing on the bill has also printed a third name (which may or may not be an assessed owner) where it was included on the electronic assessment roll received from the Ontario Property Assessment Corporation (OPAC). This name, whether an actual owner, a boarder or a child, may appear on the bill as a third assessed owner. It does not appear in the mailing window of the envelope. The mailing address has remained accurate. There are approximately 180,000 bills that may be affected. Taxpayers may contact the Revenue Services Call Centre at 416-338-4829 for further information. For this final tax billing, the Province of Ontario regulated the format of the final tax bill, to be used by all municipalities. The City of Toronto received notification from the Province in April 2001, while the Revenue Services Division was already preparing this bill for mailing. This necessitated a last-minute reformatting of the bill's design and content necessary to conform to the new provincial requirements. Even with the last-minute changes, the City of Toronto has successfully mailed all tax bills on schedule. In total, all properties will receive their bills within this next week.

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-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001