Sales Tax for J9Y — Rouyn-Noranda

What Postal Code J9Y Covers

J9Y covers the rural districts of Rouyn-Noranda, a city whose territory stretches over 6,000 square kilometres following its 2002 merger with a dozen surrounding municipalities. Former mining and farming villages such as Évain and Cadillac retain their own identities. Commercial services are concentrated downtown.

Communities & neighbourhoods in J9Y

Local landmarks

• Rural Rouyn-Noranda districts
• Abitibi lakes

Where J9Y Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

The centroid of J9Y falls roughly 8 km northwest of Rouyn-Noranda, and the code shares its delivery city with 1 other postal area. Its closest postal neighbours are J9X (Rouyn-Noranda) about 7 km off and J9Z (La Sarre) about 60 km off.

The nearest postal area we hold in another province is P0K (Kirkland Lake, Ontario), about 70 km from J9Y. A $500 order delivered into J9Y carries $74.88 in GST + QST; the same order delivered into P0K carries $65.00 in HST — $9.88 apart on one invoice. Because Canadian sales tax follows the customer, a seller in Rouyn-Noranda shipping to both charges 14.975% on the first and 13% on the second, from the same warehouse on the same day.

5 named communities share this one code — Rural Rouyn-Noranda and Granada 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 J9Y takes 14.975% however far the seller sits from Rouyn-Noranda.

The 14.975% above is set for the whole of Quebec and does not move between postal codes — J9Y 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 J9Y 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 J9Y; 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 J9Y's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 14.975%.

Working the 14.975% on a Purchase in J9Y

FSA J9Y Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA J9Y in the Rouyn-Noranda area, the sales tax rate is 14.975%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into J9Y: 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 J9Y 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 J9Y

All 14.975%, like J9Y — what differs is the ground each one covers, and with it the municipal levies on lodging and prepared food worth checking before you invoice.

All Quebec FSAs →FSA Lookup Tool →