Sales Tax for H7S — Laval

What Postal Code H7S Covers

H7S covers northern Chomedey, including the Cité de la Santé hospital that serves as Laval's principal acute-care facility. The sector combines residential streets with the commercial frontage along boulevard Saint-Martin Ouest. Chomedey as a whole has large Greek, Armenian and Lebanese communities.

Communities & neighbourhoods in H7S

Local landmarks

• Boulevard Saint-Martin Ouest
• Cité de la Santé hospital
• Autoroute 440

Where H7S Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

The centroid of H7S falls roughly 15 km northwest of Montreal, and the code shares its delivery city with 18 other postal areas. Its closest postal neighbours are H7T (Laval) about 1 km off and H7W (Laval) about 2 km off.

The nearest postal area we hold in another province is K6A (Hawkesbury, Ontario), about 65 km from H7S. A $500 order delivered into H7S 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 Laval shipping to both charges 14.975% on the first and 13% on the second, from the same warehouse on the same day.

H7S is suburban ground serving about 25,000 across 3 communities — the settlement pattern where delivered goods matter most. A parcel addressed into H7S carries Quebec's 14.975% even when the seller is registered in Alberta and charges 5% to every customer at home. Much of the local payroll sits at Cité de la Santé hospital, and health care services are exempt supplies — no tax charged at the point of service, and no input tax credits claimed on the inputs either, which is a different thing from being zero-rated. Autoroute 440 runs through the code, and highway trade has its own rules: freight moving between provinces is a zero-rated interlining supply in the carrier's hands, while the fuel, meals and repairs bought along the way carry H7S's 14.975% like any other local purchase.

The 14.975% above is set for the whole of Quebec and does not move between postal codes — H7S 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 H7S 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 H7S; 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 H7S's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 14.975%.

Working the 14.975% on a Purchase in H7S

FSA H7S Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA H7S in the Laval area, the sales tax rate is 14.975%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into H7S: 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 H7S 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 H7S

All 14.975%, like H7S — 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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