Winnipeg-Manitoba Tax Sale Procedure

[Navtaj Chandhoke]

Winnipeg-Manitoba Tax Sale Procedure

If property taxes remain unpaid after the 31st of December of the year in which they were imposed on any land except within the City of Winnipeg, the municipal taxing authority (city, town, village or municipality) may take steps to sell the land at auction and to use the sale proceeds to pay the taxes. These steps are set out in part II of

Notices that an auction sale will be held are mailed to those who have a registered interest in a title at least 3 months before the scheduled auction sale date. Notice is also posted in the municipal office.

The taxes may be paid and the property redeemed from tax sale at any time up to the sale of the property at auction.

In the City of Winnipeg, if property taxes remain unpaid after one year after the 31st of December of the year in which they were imposed, the City may apply to become the owner of the land to satisfy the taxes owing. The steps that the city must take on a tax sale are set out in The City of Winnipeg Act.

The City must deliver a notice to every person who will lose their interest in the land. This notice gives interested parties three months in which to redeem the land by payment of the arrears in taxes including penalties and costs. At the end of three months, if the land has not been redeemed, the City may become the owner of the land.

Winnipeg Tax Sale Redemption’s

For land within the City of Winnipeg, after a certain stage in the Tax Sale proceedings, payment of arrears must be through the Land Titles Office.

The first step should be to contact the City of Winnipeg to determine whether the arrears should be paid directly to the City, or through the Land Titles Office.

If payment is to be made through the Land Titles Office, please contact us by telephone at 945-2262 to obtain a written statement detailing the calculation of the amount owing. Then bring to the Land Titles Office the amount detailed in the statement in cash or by certified cheque payable to the “Minister of Finance”. You will be given a receipt and the notices of tax sale will be removed from your title.

For land outside the City of Winnipeg, please make payment directly to the town or municipality concerned. The Land Titles Office does not receive payments of this kind for land outside Winnipeg.

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