Wednesday June 4, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
The City of Langford has mailed out their 2025 property tax notices.
Anyone who has not received their tax notice may email to tax@langford.ca or call 250-391-3410 ti request their notice.
Notices are also sent digitally by email from e.services@langford.ca (add that to your safe-senders list, if you expect to receive your notice by email).
Langford municipal taxes are due July 2, 2025. If paid late there are penalities: 5% starting July 3 and a further 5% if paid after September 2, 2205.
Property taxes can be paid through online banking (not e-transfer), at financial institutions, by credit card online, by postal mail, or in person at Langford City Hall, 877 Goldstream Avenue during business hours (by Interac, cheque or cash) or by drop-off in the drop box at the front of the building.
Homeowners and renters:
Property tax notices are sent to property owners.
But renters also feel the bite, especially when landlords cover the expected tax increases with pre-emptive rent level increases sometimes a few years ahead of time.
Tax politics:
The property tax increase in Langford this year is 9.77%, whittled down from an initial proposal of 14.51% through many long deliberations by Mayor and Council and approved by council on March 17, 2025.
ouncillor Keith Yacucha (an economic professor at Camosun) in particular held a hard line on expenditures. Councillor Kimberley Guiry fought hard over the past few years for sidewalks. Councillor Mary Wagner has stood strong for food security initiatives. Councillor Colby Harder was a key force in the agreement to purchase an inner city mobile home park that will become a city park. Mayor Goodmanson went to bat with other municipal mayors about the E-comm dispatch costs that were shifted from the province to 10 municipalities in south Vancouver Island.
The current council that was elected in October 2022 has dealt with adjusting several scenarios from the time of the previous council.
Some of the big challenges have included dealing with purchase of the YMCA/YWCA Langford Fitness Centre, shifting from a practice of keeping property taxes artificially low by drawing from the city’s contingency fund, and ensuring funds for more infrastructure like sidewalks and bike lanes.
E-Comm dispatch services are now charged to 10 municipalities on Vancouver Island including the City of Langford which is seen as a cost being downloaded from the provincial government.
Commitments were made to funding more firefighters and RCMP police officers.
There has also been attention paid to the ongoing impacts of continual construction in the fast-developing city.
Langford council has in the past two years also developed extensive strategic planning as a way to guide the municipality through the expected continual population growth. The population is expected to double in the next 25 years, reaching 100,000 people by 2050.
The city’s work on strategic plans has ranged from transportation and active transportation to urban forest, parks and trails, and arts and culture. The Official Community Plan has been revised to address a wide range of growth issues and quality of life components to living in a larger municipality.
===== RELATED:
- City of Langford approves 9.77% tax increase for 2025 (March 26, 2025)
- Langford funding for police services within 2025 budget constraints (March 26, 2025)
- Ten south Vancouver Island municipalities coming to terms with 911 tax increase (February 7, 2025)
- Public Safety minister meets with south Vancouver Island mayors about 911 service fees (February 6, 2025)
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