Property Tax Services

Take control of your property taxes. Manage your portfolio with confidence

Property tax services

Property tax is one of your largest occupancy costs after rent, directly affecting cash flow and net operating income (NOI). Waiting to correct an inaccurate property tax assessment may mean paying more tax upfront and then working to recover overpayments later, without interest. Managing your property taxes requires navigating changing property assessment values, complex jurisdictional requirements, and critical property tax appeal and payment deadlines. 

Our property tax professionals combine industry-specific insights with purpose-built technology to help you identify opportunities early, manage property tax appeals, and bring greater transparency to your portfolio. The result? You’re positioned to retain more cash in your business, strengthen NOI, and move forward with greater confidence in your property tax position. 

Our approach

We start by understanding your properties, portfolio, and business priorities. From there, we combine local market knowledge, valuation experience, and technology to review assessed values, pinpoint risks, and prioritize opportunities. 

Our tech-driven, people-empowered approach helps you proactively manage deadlines, centralize portfolio data, and deliver clear reporting. You’ll see your property assessments, taxes, and appeals in full detail—and can act on them faster. This lets you establish fair and accurate values earlier, reduce unnecessary cash outflows, and improve NOI. 

How we can help

Address property value assessments early to protect cash and improve NOI

An effective property tax appeals program starts before an unnecessary tax payment is made. Our professionals combine valuation experience, market research, and portfolio data to identify property value assessment issues early, prioritize opportunities, and manage appeals through resolution.

Establishing fair and accurate assessed property values sooner helps you reduce avoidable tax outflows, keep more cash in your business, and support stronger NOI. Centralized case management, regular checkpoints, and clear outcome reporting give you visibility throughout the process. 

Pre-roll and property assessment appeals

Act earlier in the property assessment cycle, when you may have the best opportunity to correct values before they affect your tax bill. Our services include:

  • Assessment agency liaison
  • Valuation record management
  • Enrolment in official and unofficial pre-roll consultation programs
  • Valuation and equity benchmarking across the portfolio 
  • Pre-roll negotiation and recommendations

Property tax assessment appeals

Manage property assessment appeals through a consistent, transparent, and outcomes-focused process. Our services include:

  • Property tax appeal filings
  • Assessment audits
  • Market research
  • Single-property market value and equity positions
  • Property tax assessment negotiation 
  • Case management
  • Client checkpoints
  • Outcome reporting

Property tax rebate applications

Identify potential tax adjustments and pursue available rebates or corrections. Our services include:

  • Vacancy, demolition, and renovation rebate applications
  • Gross or manifest error rebate applications
  • Tax bill error reviews
  • Property tax lease audits

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Bring property tax insights into the decisions shaping your portfolio

Property tax considerations can influence acquisitions, developments, capital investments, leases, and long-term portfolio planning. We combine technical knowledge, valuation insight, and portfolio data to help you understand potential tax implications earlier and make decisions with certainty.

Our advisory services provide a clearer view of property tax risks and opportunities, helping you protect cash, forecast costs, and plan for sustainable portfolio performance. 

Transaction and development support

Understand potential property tax costs before completing an acquisition, development, or relocation. Our services include:

  • Ad valorem tax forecasting for acquisitions, developments, and relocations
  • Pre-negotiation of property value assessments for new-build and previously unassessed properties
  • Financial due diligence, including addition and deletion queries 

Litigation services

Access technical insight and informed representation for complex valuation and policy matters. Our services include:

  • Ad valorem appraisal services
  • Expert witness services
  • Advocacy before government on property assessment and taxation policy
  • Research and analysis of regional tax incentive programs 
  • Advocacy and case management

Capital and compliance analysis

Assess the property tax implications of capital spending and contractual obligations. Our services include:

  • Capital expenditure analysis for assessability under applicable legislation
  • Ad hoc property tax lease reviews and audits

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Keep your portfolio current, connected, and visible 

Effective property tax management starts with accurate data. We combine hands-on portfolio oversight with technology-enabled reporting to centralize your property, assessment, and tax information.

We manage documents, deadlines, property tax requirements, and asset updates through one connected program. This gives you a clearer view of assessments, taxes, budgets, forecasts, and appeals—and lets your team focus on higher-value priorities.

Data management

Create a single, reliable view of your portfolio data to support faster analysis, clearer reporting, and more confident decisions. Our services include:

  • Digitization of property, assessment, and tax data
  • Variance and exception analysis
  • On-demand digital reporting across assessments, taxes, savings, budgets, forecasts, and appeals
  • Centralized document storage

Tax management

Bring greater control and consistency to your annual property tax obligations. Our services include:

  • Municipal liaison
  • Refund follow-up
  • Ownership and address updates
  • Budgets and forecasts for current assets
  • Payment approvals and instalment reporting

Asset management

Keep property records current and support compliance across changing portfolios and jurisdictions. Our services include:

  • Ownership and address updates 
  • Acquisition and distribution of property assessment detail records
  • Support for annual information requests
  • Appeal-rights compliance

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Get clarity on your property tax position

Gain the insights needed to move forward with confidence

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Contact us

Jeff Grad

Jeff Grad

Partner, Property Tax Services Leader, Toronto, PwC Canada

Tel: 416-702-5897

Steve Eakins

Steve Eakins

Director, National Lead, Property Tax Consulting Services, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 249 288 0222

Lauren Sky

Lauren Sky

Director, Regulated Property Tax and National Client Solutions, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 587 893 6390

Malcolm Stadig

Malcolm Stadig

Director, Property Tax Services, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 613 340 8276

Haydn Johnstone

Haydn Johnstone

Director, National Lead, Valuation & Property Tax Consulting Services, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 647 637 0315

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