Payment Options
There are six ways to pay your utilities and property taxes in Port Coquitlam.
Please note:
- The City of Port Coquitlam does not accept credit cards as payment for property taxes or utilities.
- Eligible property owners must complete a Home Owner Grant application to the province every year to receive the grant on their property taxes. Submit your home owner grant by the due date to avoid penalty and interest.
Pay by Internet or Telephone Banking
Online Banking
Taxes Add Port Coquitlam Tax as a payee and use the nine-digit Folio number from your property tax notice, without the dash. (If your bank requires a 12-digit number, add 224 at the beginning of your folio number.)
Print your payment confirmation number or record it on your statement for your records.
Utilities
Add Port Coquitlam Water/Sewer as a payee and use the five-digit Account number from your utility bill. (If your bank requires an eight-digit number, add 101 at the beginning of your account number.)
Print your payment confirmation number or record it on your statement for your records.
Telephone Banking
Contact your bank to set up this service if you don’t already have it.
Warning: Penalties will be applied if your financial institution rejects payment, or if payment is made after your financial institution’s local cut-off time on the due date. These payments will be processed with a payment date equal to the next business day.
Pay at Your Financial Institution
Payments by cash, cheque or money order, made payable to the City of Port Coquitlam, will be accepted in person at most chartered banks and credit unions, and at participating trust companies.
You can also pay through your bank’s ATM.
Please note that some banks no longer accept paper remittances such as Home Owner Grant applications. See link at right to claim your grant online.
Warning: Penalties will be applied if your financial institution rejects payment, or if payment is made after your financial institution’s local cut-off time on the due date. These payments will be processed with a payment date equal to the next business day.
Pay By Mail
Payments by cheque (post-dated up to the due date is accepted) or money orders, made payable to the City of Port Coquitlam, can be mailed to:
Tax Office
City of Port Coquitlam
2580 Shaughnessy Street
Port Coquitlam BC V3C 2A8
If you are mailing your payment, please allow ample time for your payment to be received at City Hall on or before the due date. Enclose the stub portion of your bill with your payment.
If you are paying by cheque, record your tax roll number or property address on your cheque.
24-Hour Drop Off
Payments by cheque (post-dated up to the due date is accepted) or money order, made payable to the City of Port Coquitlam, can be hand delivered to the drop box located outside City Hall to the right of the Shaughnessy Street entrance.
The drop box is cleared daily. Payments received after midnight on the due date are subject to penalty.
Enclose the stub portion of your bill with your payment. If you are paying by cheque, record your tax roll number or property address on your cheque.
Prepayment Plan
Make easy, predictable monthly payments on your annual utility and property tax bills through our convenient Prepayment Plan.
Your grant is just a click away!
Contact
Port Coquitlam Tax Office
Tel 604.927.5425
Email taxes@portcoquitlam.ca
Location and Mailing Address
First Floor, City Hall
2580 Shaughnessy Street
Port Coquitlam BC V3C 2A8
Business Hours:
8:30 am to 4:30 pm,
Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays)