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

Please be advised that effective April 1, 2023, the Town of Whitby is implementing a new Rush Tax Certificate Service.

This new rush service means that you will have the option to receive your tax certificates by email or fax in addition to Canada Post mail.

With this new rush service, we are offering that tax certificates will be issued within 2 business days of being received in our office.

The fee for the new Rush Tax Certificate is $100.00 per roll number.

The fee for our regular Tax Certificates that will be sent to you by Canada Post mail only remains unchanged at $75.00 per roll number. Note: these Tax Certificates will be issued within 7 business days of being received in our office and these tax certificates will no longer be sent by email or fax.

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.

We will provide verbal updates to printed tax certificates for 90 days after the tax certificate was issued.