{"id":3854,"date":"2025-01-09T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:08:34","slug":"vacant-home-tax-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/vacant-home-tax-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant Home Tax Reminder!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-420x420.png 420w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax-240x240.png 240w, https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vacant-home-tax.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Annual Vacant Home Tax (VHT) Declaration Reminder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadline: April 30, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who Must Declare?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All <a><\/a>property owners in Toronto must submit a VHT declaration annually to confirm their property\u2019s occupancy status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do You Owe the Tax?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Submitting a declaration doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ll owe taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 If your property is your principal residence or exempt, no tax is payable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Failing to declare could result in fines based on your property\u2019s assessed value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What You Need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Property\u2019s Assessment Roll Number<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Customer Number<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to Submit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Online: <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ca\/VacantHomeTax?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3uf17JKqUbM13RiTYV2VX4InpuFFtDX4Eeg5vE4VTq5aP6OEPte4cNhc8_aem_LayqaKnGQ3xb1SEMhHckYQ\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto.ca\/VacantHomeTax<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Phone: Call 311 (or 416-392-2489 outside Toronto)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. In Person: Visit any of the six City Centres (search \u201cInquiry &amp; Payment Counters\u201d at <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FToronto.ca%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0SIMKwwj6HJe68hGoyi3X8KCCmTpOI0CfMFk8i4AgQq3G9ZAH9fLP6_0s_aem_Lsr_OMCWT9kMhkuxcSA9Ww&amp;h=AT1riybTYUkoQfaH1g6SYyotGEjAW69lasVoqHjMZSZ1dsmdEKfo-1l_WVTzJHBeQ3ghmA2v53zFvELTvBcbWVjmgMQRWlqoNlgn0eGy5d1lpVLW7vPbWtn6pBZr_6KZOfULYks&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT1k3sa0hfO9J1QdfM73iJm-w8IivHsR9EDborI4cTlssBR5Tni1QHDKDe2vbmx_KCZqJxMleHNeT_SBzBv-lbxeNOYrnAcIdL04gZonRdeZgVWMVGvfXIU_OaiY_e6AHlOsLpjtcgEJcV9cTJZR1ifbuwzT_7aqIWum3WcJIQH89C04aKnKAiGqcIj1d6opdNg0KkcInJaDwJl0zw8h_w8Nlp8\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto.ca<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Important: Even if the property is your primary residence, you must submit the declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For questions, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ca\/VacantHomeTax?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2TewSsR0dcXi63CPLr6RgNsu7VzSE7tOfxLfRgM9vZgCXVrTEIiWATdkY_aem_vQBIdf4R71-b47fkjEljpA\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto.ca\/VacantHomeTax<\/a> or call 311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Vacant Home Tax (VHT) Declaration Reminder! Deadline: April 30, 2025 Who Must Declare? All property owners in Toronto must submit a VHT declaration annually to confirm their property\u2019s occupancy &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/vacant-home-tax-reminder\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1681,1706,5,153],"tags":[325,7,92,672,126,43,6,3900,140,3655,3901],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-don-mills","category-open-in-don-mills","category-real-estate","category-toronto","tag-dmri","tag-don-mills","tag-east-york","tag-karen-millar","tag-karen-millar-team","tag-leaside","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-home-owners","tag-toronto-real-estate","tag-vacant-home-tax","tag-vht-declaration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenmillar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}