A 1% property tax change is $25.09 million citywide and $38.13 a year on the typical home.
A new cost is something added to the budget, so it raises the tax levy by the full amount.
For a line from the City's Where Your Taxes Go page, choose An existing service above. The citywide figure is an estimate of that service's total budget rather than the part property tax pays, and it will not match the City's published budget for every service.
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The Four years row is the yearly cost multiplied by four. It is not a one time payment.
Every item is converted to a yearly cost first, so operating and capital items can sit in the same list. New costs and existing services are totalled separately, because a new cost adds to a tax bill and an existing service is already part of it.
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How the numbers are worked out
Change the assumptions
The tax rates are fixed at the 2026 bylaw values and the typical home is $492,500, so a 1% change is $38.13 a year on that home. Shorthand such as 25m or 1.2b works in every amount field.
How the numbers are worked out
For a new cost, the tool divides the amount by the 2026 City tax levy of $2.51 billion and applies that percentage to the bill. A new cost paid from property tax raises the levy by the full amount, so $20 million adds about $30 a year to the typical home's City tax.
For an existing service, the tool divides the amount by the 2026 City operating budget of $3.96 billion. Enter the service's total budget rather than the part property tax pays, because the divisor is total City spending and the two have to match.
The Public Library is the worked example. Its 2026 budget is $74.7 million, of which the Library raises $9.7 million itself and property tax provides $65.1 million. On total spending the Library is 1.9 per cent, or about $72 a year on the typical home, and the City publishes $6 a month for the Library. Measured against property tax alone the Library is $99 a year, because that measure drops the Library's own revenue and the City's other non-tax revenue out of the comparison.
Your property
City tax is the assessed value multiplied by the 2026 rate in Bylaw 21442, which is 0.0077419 for a house and 0.0252216 for non-residential property. Your assessed value is on your assessment notice. The default is the typical Edmonton home at $492,500. The non-residential default of $1,000,000 is a placeholder and not a published average.
One year or four
The City budgets four years at a time. A number in the news can be a cost for one year or a total for the whole cycle, and the buttons tell the tool which one you have entered. The Four years row is the yearly cost multiplied by four. It is not a one time payment.
Starting from a tax bill
Enter a dollar amount from a bill and the tool gives the citywide amount it represents. Choose An existing service for a line from Where Your Taxes Go, which returns an estimate of that service's total budget, and A new cost for the cost of a tax increase.
The list
The Add it up tab keeps a running list. Every item is converted to a yearly cost first, so different kinds of item can sit together. New costs and existing services are totalled separately, because a new cost adds to a tax bill and an existing service is already part of it. The list is stored in your own browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Export CSV writes a file that opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. Copy puts the same data on your clipboard.
Per person
The Per person column divides the citywide amount by 1,284,000 people and is there for scale. Property tax is paid by property owners and reaches renters through rent.