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 statue after we've received your tax certificate request and full payment.

Fee

The current fee is $75 to request a tax certificate for a property. Please make your cheque payable to the Town of Whitby. We only accept payments 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.