Budget

The City’s budget is aligned with the goals of the Oshawa Strategic Plan, Financial Strategy and Council’s guiding principles of sustainability and financial stewardship, and provides a foundation to:

meet the public service needs of our residents; and,
make decisions on City infrastructure.

The 2026 Budget Engagement is now live. Read more below!

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The City budget determines priorities for City services and infrastructure.

Learn how the City Budget works

See how the City raises funds through taxes and other sources of revenue to keep Oshawa’s infrastructure in good condition and key services running.

Learn how the City gets money

How the City keeps infrastructure like roads, bridges and buildings in good condition and maintains services like parks, roads and fire services.

Learn how the City spends money

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Review current and past budget documents, a budget glossary and F.A.Q.s.

Review Budget Documents

2026 Budget Engagement

The City is inviting residents and property owners to share their budget priorities and learn more about how their taxes are used in its Budget Simulator.

Share your budget priorities

Share what services and programs are important to you by adjusting funding and service levels in our Budget Simulator. Just like the City’s budget, your budget simulation will need to be balanced in order to be submitted!

Share your priorities online at oshawa.ca/MyBudget or on paper at Service Oshawa (located at City Hall, 50 Centre St. S.) during regular business hours.

Share your priorities online now!

Balanced budgets can be submitted until 12 p.m. Monday, June 9. All individual responses will be anonymous and only used to summarize overall feedback received from the public. Feedback will be shared with members of Council and considered in the development of the 2026 Mayor’s Budget.

2026 Budget Process

The 2026 City Budget will be delivered to Council and made available online for public review on Friday, October 31. Members of the public are welcome to watch the meeting online via webstream or in person in the Council Chamber beginning at 9:30 a.m.

A Special Meeting of Council will be held at 9:30 a.m., Friday, November 14 to hear public delegations on the 2026 City Budget. To submit correspondence, it must be submitted to Legislative Services by 4 p.m. on the business day prior to the meeting. Requests to delegate electronically must be submitted by noon on the business day prior to the meeting.

2025 Budget

The 2025 Budget was adopted in December 2024 and is available for public review on the Budget Documents webpage.

The City adopted a tax rate of 7.87% and the Region has posted a tax rate of 7.40% on their website. The Oshawa portion of the total tax bill requires an increase of approximately $168.86 for the year on an average assessed property value as determined by M.P.A.C.