Sales Tax for H1L — Montréal

What Postal Code H1L Covers

H1L covers Mercier-Est, a largely residential sector of the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. The district grew around the industrial and port employment of Montreal's east end and retains dense duplex and triplex housing typical of the era. The Longue-Pointe garrison, a Canadian Forces logistics base, occupies part of its southern edge.

Communities & neighbourhoods in H1L

Local landmarks

• Parc Thomas-Chapais
• Boulevard Langelier
• Longue-Pointe garrison

Where H1L Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

The centroid of H1L falls roughly 10 km north of Montreal, and the code shares its delivery city with 45 other postal areas. Its closest postal neighbours are H1M (Montréal) about 2 km off and H1K (Anjou) about 2 km off.

The nearest postal area we hold in another province is K6A (Hawkesbury, Ontario), about 85 km from H1L. A $500 order delivered into H1L carries $74.88 in GST + QST; the same order delivered into K6A carries $65.00 in HST — $9.88 apart on one invoice. Because Canadian sales tax follows the customer, a seller in Montréal shipping to both charges 14.975% on the first and 13% on the second, from the same warehouse on the same day.

H1L is dense urban ground — 3 named neighbourhoods inside one postal area, about 35,000 — and density changes the taxable mix rather than the rate. Prepared food, personal services and in-person retail dominate what is rung through Montréal codes like this one, all of it at 14.975%, while the zero-rated grocery basics that anchor a suburban shop are a smaller share of the total than the province-wide averages suggest. Longue-Pointe garrison anchors a large federal payroll inside H1L. Federal departments and agencies pay GST + QST on their purchases like anyone else — the old Crown exemption ended in 1991 — so suppliers invoicing the base charge 14.975% and claim their own input tax credits as normal.

The 14.975% above is set for the whole of Quebec and does not move between postal codes — H1L 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 H1L 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 H1L; 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 H1L's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 14.975%.

Working the 14.975% on a Purchase in H1L

FSA H1L Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA H1L in the Montréal area, the sales tax rate is 14.975%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into H1L: 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 H1L 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 H1L

All 14.975%, like H1L — 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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