Budget
The budget is our key planning document to support decision-making on City infrastructure and services in order to meet the needs of our community today and tomorrow.
2023 City Budget Engagement
Share your budget priorities and better understand what your property taxes buy you with this year’s City Budget engagement opportunities.
How would you spend the City's 2023 property tax dollars?
In preparation for the delivery of the proposed 2023 City Budget, the City is inviting residents and property owners to share their budget priorities by balancing their own City Budget.
Thank you to everyone who shared their budget priorities in the Budget Simulator. The Budget Simulator has now closed. Feedback received will be shared with members of Council and City staff during the 2023 Budget deliberations. All individual responses will be anonymous and used to summarize overall feedback received from the public.
How were your 2022 property tax dollars spent?
Better understand how the City invested your 2022 residential property tax dollars by reviewing a line-by-line account of how much City programs and services cost you individually.
See how the City invested your 2022 tax dollars with a personalized, estimated residential property tax receipt!
Generate your personalized, estimated taxpayer receipt by inputting your assessed property value (without any commas) and hitting “View your tax receipt” – it’s that easy!
Renters can request their property value from their landlord or enter Oshawa’s average assessed property value ($356,000) to get an idea of a how much City services may have cost them.
The Taxpayer Receipt generates only the City’s portion of an Oshawa resident’s or property owner’s tax bill. The City of Oshawa collects property taxes on behalf of not only the City, but also for the Regional Municipality of Durham and the Province, for local school boards. For every dollar collected in 2022, approximately 43 cents was allocated to the Region and 16 cents to local school boards – the City kept only 41 cents.
The approved 2022 City Budget Taxpayer Receipt tool can be completed until 12 p.m., Thursday, December 8.
2023 Budget Process
The proposed 2023 City Budget will be delivered to Council and made available online for public review on Friday, December 9.
Members of the public are welcome to watch the budget meetings online via webstream or in person in Council Chambers beginning at 9:30 a.m. on the following dates:
- Friday, December 9 – delivery of the proposed 2023 City Budget to Council
- Friday, January 13 – Council review of the proposed 2023 City Budget
- Thursday, January 19 – Council review of the proposed 2023 City Budget
- Friday, January 20 – Council review and approval of the proposed 2023 City Budget
- Friday, January 27 – Council review and approval of the proposed 2023 City Budget (if necessary)
Stay tuned: budget engagement focused on the proposed 2023 City Budget will continue in December 2022 with a revised online Taxpayer Receipt and into the new year with a Budget Telephone Open House in January 2023.
Operating & Capital Budgets
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. It is made up of an operating and capital budget that:
- balances competing priorities and challenges
- provides affordable services and programs that meet our community needs
- invests in our city by maintaining and building infrastructure, including roads, sidewalks, trails and parks
- saves for the future by increasing our reserve balances to ensure the financial health of the City
The operating budget plans for the cost of delivering services such as snow removal, road maintenance and fire services and maintaining current infrastructure.
The capital budget plans for the costs of constructing and renewing buildings, roads and parks and investing in key strategic priorities for the city's future.
Past City Budgets
Visit the Region of Durham website for more information on their budget.