{"id":6349,"date":"2019-06-18T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ombudsmandemontreal.com\/?page_id=6349"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:09:33","slug":"2018-remboursement-de-taxes-cheques-non-encaisses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ombudsmandemontreal.com\/en\/cases-handled\/examples-of-cases-handled\/municipal-subsidies-and-taxes\/2018-remboursement-de-taxes-cheques-non-encaisses","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Tax Refunds &#8211; Uncashed Cheques (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Service des finances<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tax refund cheques sometimes remain uncashed for a variety of reasons: long delays between the challenge of the tax bill and the final judgment (sometimes years); owners have moved; etc. Yet, the amounts involved can be significant.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the <em>Service des finances<\/em> had introduced, at the <strong>OdM<\/strong>\u2019s request, a new procedure designed to track down owners who had not cashed a tax refund cheque. Between 2007 and 2015, about <strong>2,000<\/strong> expired <strong>cheques<\/strong> were so re-issued for a total value exceeding <strong>$1 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the <strong>OdM<\/strong> discovers that this procedure has not been applied since 2015. We intervene again. The <em>Service des finances<\/em> estimates that the refunds not cashed in since 2015 would amount to approximately <strong>$290,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Following our discussions, the <em>Service des finances<\/em> reinstates the follow-up procedure <strong>retroactively<\/strong> to 2015. As of December 18, 2018, cheques valued at about <strong>$126,500<\/strong> were re-issued. The <em>Service des finances<\/em> will pursue the process in 2019. The <strong>OdM<\/strong> will conduct annual follow-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service des finances Tax refund cheques sometimes remain uncashed for a variety of reasons: long delays between the challenge of the tax bill and the final judgment (sometimes years); owners have moved; etc. Yet, the amounts involved can be significant. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ombudsmandemontreal.com\/en\/cases-handled\/examples-of-cases-handled\/municipal-subsidies-and-taxes\/2018-remboursement-de-taxes-cheques-non-encaisses\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":305,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Municipal Tax Refunds - Uncashed Cheques (2018) - OMBUDSMAN de Montr\u00e9al<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ombudsmandemontreal.com\/en\/cases-handled\/examples-of-cases-handled\/municipal-subsidies-and-taxes\/2018-remboursement-de-taxes-cheques-non-encaisses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Municipal Tax Refunds - Uncashed Cheques (2018) - OMBUDSMAN de Montr\u00e9al\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Service des finances Tax refund cheques sometimes remain uncashed for a variety of reasons: long delays between the challenge of the tax bill and the final judgment (sometimes years); 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