Sales Tax for G0B — Cap-aux-Meules (Îles-de-la-Madeleine)

What Postal Code G0B Covers

G0B serves the Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands), a Quebec archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, centred on the main town of Cap-aux-Meules. The islands, reached by ferry from Souris, PEI, are known for their red cliffs, sandy beaches, Acadian culture and fishing and seafood industries.

Communities & neighbourhoods in G0B

Local landmarks

• Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) archipelago
• Ferry to Souris, PEI

Where G0B Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

G0B sits about 250 km southeast of Gaspe, the nearest centre of any size, and is the only postal area our data records for Cap-aux-Meules (Îles-de-la-Madeleine). Its closest postal neighbours are G4T (Îles-de-la-Madeleine) about 1 km off and G4X (Gaspé) about 250 km off. The zero in G0B is Canada Post's marker for a rural service area — every code in the G0 block is rural Quebec — which is why one prefix has to cover 7 separate settlements here rather than a few city blocks.

The nearest postal area we hold in another province is B0C (Ingonish, Nova Scotia), about 140 km from G0B. A $500 order delivered into G0B carries $74.88 in GST + QST; the same order delivered into B0C carries $70.00 in HST — $4.88 apart on one invoice. Because Canadian sales tax follows the customer, a seller in Cap-aux-Meules (Îles-de-la-Madeleine) shipping to both charges 14.975% on the first and 14% on the second, from the same warehouse on the same day.

7 named communities share this one code — Cap-aux-Meules and L'Étang-du-Nord among them — which is the ordinary shape of rural Quebec: the postal geography is wide, the retail geography is narrow. General merchandise is bought in one or two service centres or ordered in, and an order shipped into G0B takes 14.975% however far the seller sits from Cap-aux-Meules (Îles-de-la-Madeleine). Traffic through Ferry to Souris, PEI shows up in the local mix as fuel, prepared food and accommodation rather than durable retail — categories where the rate is the same 14.975% but the separate municipal levies are not.

The 14.975% above is set for the whole of Quebec and does not move between postal codes — G0B pays exactly what every other Quebec code pays. The bill that does move is an overnight one. Quebec's 3.5% tax on lodging applies on top of GST + QST, so a $200 room night inside G0B carries $7.00 of it. Charged on the price of the overnight stay only — the value of breakfast, parking and other services bundled with the room is excluded from the base. It runs out at 32 nights: once the same guest has stayed that long continuously the booking stops being transient accommodation, and the levy stops with it.

Everything above is particular to G0B; the rules that are not — registration thresholds, filing frequency, input tax credit recovery, point-of-sale rebates — are set for the whole of Quebec, and they live on the Quebec sales tax guide rather than being restated on G0B's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 14.975%.

Working the 14.975% on a Purchase in G0B

FSA G0B Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA G0B in the Cap-aux-Meules (Îles-de-la-Madeleine) area, the sales tax rate is 14.975%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into G0B: What You Need to Register For

Quebec runs a GST + QST system administered by Revenu Québec (both GST and QST), with a registration threshold of $30,000 (GST/QST) ($30,000 (GST/QST via Revenu Québec) for remote sellers). Filing frequency, input tax credit recovery, point-of-sale rebates and the full registration walkthrough are set out on the Quebec sales tax guide — they are province-wide rules, identical for every postal code here, so this page links them rather than repeating them.

1. Charge the rate the address decides. A delivery into G0B is a Quebec sale, so charge 14.975% (5% GST + 9.975% provincial tax) — your own address does not enter into it.
2. Show it the way Revenu Québec (both GST and QST) expects. GST and QST as separate line items — Revenu Québec requires the breakdown on every Quebec invoice.

Everything else about selling here — thresholds, filing frequency, ITC recovery, point-of-sale rebates, and the full province-by-province sourcing rules — is identical for every postal code in Quebec and is set out once on the Quebec sales tax guide and in the Quebec GST/HST calculator.

Postal Codes Near G0B

All 14.975%, like G0B — what differs is the ground each one covers, and with it the municipal levies on lodging and prepared food worth checking before you invoice.

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