Sales Tax for H2Y — Montréal

What Postal Code H2Y Covers

H2Y covers Vieux-Montréal, the 17th- and 18th-century core of the city and its most visited district. Notre-Dame Basilica, the Bonsecours Market and the cobbled Place Jacques-Cartier draw millions of visitors annually. Retail here is overwhelmingly visitor-facing — galleries, souvenir shops, boutique hotels and restaurants — with a small permanent residential population in converted warehouses.

Communities & neighbourhoods in H2Y

Local landmarks

• Notre-Dame Basilica
• Place Jacques-Cartier
• Old Port of Montreal
• Bonsecours Market
• Pointe-à-Callière museum

Where H2Y Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

H2Y covers ground within about 2 km of the centre of Montreal — one of 46 forward sortation areas the city is split across, each carrying the same 14.975% but covering very different retail. Its closest postal neighbours are H2Z (Montréal) about 1 km off and H5B (Montréal) about 1 km off.

The nearest postal area we hold in another province is K6A (Hawkesbury, Ontario), about 85 km from H2Y. A $500 order delivered into H2Y 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.

H2Y is dense urban ground — 4 named neighbourhoods inside one postal area, about 5,000 residents with very high visitor volume — 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. Traffic through Old Port of Montreal 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. Visitor spending around Pointe-à-Callière museum lands in accommodation, prepared food and admissions rather than durable goods. Admissions are their own category: one supplied by a charity or a municipality can be exempt outright, while a commercial attraction on the same street charges 14.975%.

The 14.975% above is set for the whole of Quebec and does not move between postal codes — H2Y 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 H2Y 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 H2Y; 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 H2Y's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 14.975%.

Working the 14.975% on a Purchase in H2Y

FSA H2Y Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA H2Y in the Montréal area, the sales tax rate is 14.975%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into H2Y: 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 H2Y 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 H2Y

All 14.975%, like H2Y — 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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