A lawyer often requests a tax certificate during the sale of a property or when a mortgage is being approved for a property. Tax certificates show a history of any taxes owing on the property. Learn how to request a tax certificate for a property in the Town of Whitby.

Request a tax certificate

Please send your tax certificate request in writing by mail to:

Town of Whitby
575 Rossland Rd E
Whitby, ON L1N 2M8

The Lawyer's Office can contact us for verbal information about the property tax status after we've received your tax certificate request and full payment.

Fee

The Town of Whitby offers two tax certificate services. A rush service offers tax certificates within 2 business days of being received in our office, these certificates will be sent by email in addition to Canada Post mail.  The fee for the rush service is $105.00 per roll number.

The fee for our regular tax certificates is $78.75 per roll number and these tax certificates will be sent by Canada Post mail only.  These regular tax certificates will be issued within 7 business days of being received in our office.

We currently only accept payment for these services by cheque.

Please note:

It is not necessary for both sides of a purchase and sale transaction to request a tax certificate. We will provide verbal information to both sides if we've received a tax certificate request and payment from one party involved in the transaction.

The Tax Department will provide verbal updates to printed tax certificates for 60 days after the tax certificate was issued unless a billing has occurred.  A new tax certificate request will have to be ordered if a billing has taken place since the original request was printed.