{
  "id": "municipal-tax-rate",
  "parent": "property-tax-vs-inflation",
  "category": "City finances",
  "title": "City residential tax rate",
  "geography": "City of Victoria (municipality)",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Municipal (tax bylaw)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many dollars of City tax are charged for each $1,000 of a home's assessed value?",
  "value": 3.7229,
  "display_value": "$3.7229",
  "unit": "per $1,000 of assessed value",
  "period": "Tax year 2026",
  "period_start": "2026-01-01",
  "period_end": "2026-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "2026",
    "previous_value": 3.7229,
    "change_percent": null
  },
  "since_text": "General 2.1708, debt 0.1739, police 1.3782",
  "trend": "context",
  "trend_basis": "Schedule 1 of Tax Bylaw No. 26-030 sets the residential municipal rate at 3.7229 dollars per $1,000 of taxable value: general 2.1708, debt 0.1739 and police 1.3782. A home assessed at $1,000,000 pays $3,723 in City tax at this rate.",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label. The rate moves with assessments: when values rise, the rate can fall while bills rise.",
  "caveats": [
    "City (municipal) rate only. School, regional district, hospital and other rates on the same bill are set by other bodies.",
    "Rates are not comparable across years without allowing for changes in assessed values."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2026",
      "value": 3.7229
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (tax bylaw adopted each spring)",
  "source": {
    "name": "City of Victoria, Tax Bylaw No. 26-030, Schedule 1",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/city-budget",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/tax-bylaw-2026",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/tax-bylaw-2026"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/legal-disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "Residential General 31,490,813,084 2.1708 0.1739 1.3782 3.7229"
  ],
  "data_published": null,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:19:18Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Tax Bylaw No. 26-030, Schedule 1. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public"
}