The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing welcomes you to the home of the Financial Information Return (FIR) and Municipal Performance Measurement Program (MPMP).

This website consists of pages for FIR REPORTING and pages for VIEWING FIR DATA as submitted by Municipalities. Please use the links on the left to go to the appropriate Reporting year, or the appropriate year for Viewing FIR Data.

The FIR is the main data collection tool used by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to collect financial and statistical information on Municipalities. The FIR is a standard document comprised of a number of Schedules which are updated each year to comply with current legislation and reporting requirements.

To complete the FIR, each municipality begins by downloading the FIR from this website. The municipality then enters information into the FIR electronically, and once completed, submit the FIR via email to FIR.MAH@ontario.ca. This email address is also used to address any questions or concerns a municipality may have when completing the FIR.

At the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the FIR data is then stored in the Municipal Database. Since the FIR is a standard document which is collected from every municipality each year, the Municipal Database has evolved into a vast library of relational municipal financial information dating back to 1977.

The FIR is designed to include many automatic calculations, including formulas which carry-forward data from one schedule to another. To further assist municipality’s with completing the FIR, a series of data verification checks are built into the FIR. These checks verify information as it is entered by the municipality, and ensure that accurate data is submitted. Also, before a municipality even begins completing the FIR, several data points from the previous year FIR are pre-loaded into the current FIR. This ensures that closing balances from the previous year match opening balances for the current year.