City Offers 'Paperless' Tax Notices

City now offers electronic property tax notices

Property owners can now receive their tax notice electronically through a new program called ‘MyBills’. 2013 marks the first year that the entire property tax notice process – from notice to payment – can be done without the use of paper.

A property tax notice can now be received as soon as it is prepared, rather than waiting for a paper copy to arrive in the mail. Using a MyCity account, property owners can view their property tax notices posted online in PDF format. Notices are also archived online enabling residents to see their notice history from previous years or download the files to their own computer, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

The City of Nanaimo encourages taxpayers to sign up to receive their property taxes electronically for 2013. To sign up for this electronic service, property owners need to register with MyCity by visiting http://mycity.nanaimo.ca. Once they have created a MyCity account and successfully activated it, the property owners must change their delivery method to email by going to the ‘MyBills’ tab or follow the detailed instructions at http://www.nanaimo.ca/goto/mycity. The deadline to sign up for the 2013 property tax year is end of day May 13th.