Tax Billing & Instalment
Generate, deliver, and manage property tax bills and instalment schedules — supporting paper, electronic, and pre-authorized payment options for interim, final, and supplementary billing cycles.
Batch Bills (50K)
Payment Apply
Account Query
Bill PDF
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
7Delegated to
6Levy amounts for billing
Bill document generation engine
Payment processing, PAD file generation (CPA-005)
Bill delivery, reminders
Bill archival
Resident self-service tax portal
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
3 capability groups comprising 7 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Generate interim, final, and supplementary bills for the entire assessment roll with municipality branding and all rate components.
Full Roll Billing
Generate bills for entire roll in batch — interim, final, or supplementary — with all rate components and instalment details.
Municipality Branding
PDF bills with municipal branding, logo, payment instructions, and detachable payment stub.
Payment Options
Each bill includes all available payment options: PAP, online banking, counter, mail, and drop box details.
Opt-in electronic delivery via email PDF with consent tracking and paper suppression.
Email Delivery
Opt-in email delivery with PDF attachment; consent tracking per CASL requirements.
Paper Suppression
Suppress paper bills for e-billing enrolled accounts; reduce print and postage costs.
Portal Download
All bills available for download on the resident self-service portal.
Adoption Tracking
Track e-billing adoption rates for council reporting and cost savings analysis.
On-demand reprints with DUPLICATE watermark and current account statements for any date range.
Duplicate Bills
On-demand reprint with 'DUPLICATE' watermark clearly marked; immediate PDF generation.
Account Statements
Generate current account statements for any date range — used by solicitors and realtors for closings.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
4 entities with 4 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
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API Surface
Integration Endpoints
10 RESTful endpoints across 5 resource groups — plus 6 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/tax-billing/generate/{type}
Generate batch bills (INTERIM/FINAL/SUPPLEMENTARY)
/api/v1/tax-billing/bills/{billId}
Get bill details + PDF
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
1 Civic products consume Tax Billing & Instalment — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Batch Bill Generation (50,000)
Payment Application
Account Balance Query
Bill PDF Generation
Penalty Calculation Batch
Payment History Retention
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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