The CGTSIM collects the school tax on taxable immovables located in the territories served by school service centres and school boards on the Island of Montr\u00e9al:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school tax rate is set annually by the Minister of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school tax rate is published in the Gazette officielle by June 15 each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The territory served by the CGTSIM is composed of the City of Montr\u00e9al, the 15 municipalities on the Island of Montr\u00e9al, and the 23 municipalities located west of the island of Montr\u00e9al in the Harwood territory. Within the territory of the Island of Montr\u00e9al, property owners are taxed by the CGTSIM; in the Harwood territory, only property-owners considered to be English-speaking or \u201cneutral\u201d receive a school tax bill from the CGSTIM. The French-speaking school service centre in this territory, the Centre de services scolaire des Trois-Lacs, collects its own school tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 3 each year, the CGTSIM allocates to the school service centres and school boards their share of the school tax. The total amount billed is distributed, whether it has been collected or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The income derived from investing the school tax proceeds and the supplemental billings serves to finance catch-up measures for education in underprivileged areas<\/a> served by schools on the Island of Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The school tax covers about 15% of the expenses of school service centres and school boards on the Island of Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The school tax pays for the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Territory taxed The CGTSIM collects the school tax on taxable immovables located in the territories served by school service centres and school boards on the Island of Montr\u00e9al: The school tax rate is set annually by the Minister of Education. The school tax rate is published in the Gazette officielle by June 15 each year. The … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":904,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions\/5606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cgtsim.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Financing school service centres and school boards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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