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Why did my Saskatoon property tax bill go up even though I did not renovate?

A higher bill with no renovation almost always traces to one of two City of Saskatoon decisions: a general reassessment that raised your home's assessed value along with most of the neighbourhood, or council raising the municipal mill rate in that year's budget, since both apply automatically without any change to the property itself.

A reassessment year moves everyone at once, in the same direction, based on comparable sales data across the whole city, so a jump that feels personal is frequently just your street catching up to several years of market movement since the last cycle.

A mill rate increase is a separate lever entirely. City of Saskatoon council can raise the rate applied to the same assessed value to fund the annual budget, and that shows up on your bill even in a year with no reassessment and no work done on your house.

If the increase still looks wrong once you separate those two causes, remember the mill rate applies to only 80 percent of assessed value, so the assessed value itself is the number worth checking against the Board of Revision for 2026.

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