Sales Tax for M1L — Toronto (Scarborough)

What Postal Code M1L Covers

M1L covers Clairlea and the Golden Mile in southwest Scarborough — a stretch of Eglinton Avenue East developed after the war as one of Canada's first suburban industrial and retail corridors, and now a focus of major redevelopment around the Eglinton Crosstown line. Eglinton Square shopping centre serves the surrounding residential streets.

Communities & neighbourhoods in M1L

Local landmarks

• Golden Mile
• Eglinton Square
• Warden Woods

Where M1L Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

The centroid of M1L falls roughly 10 km northeast of Toronto, and the code shares its delivery city with 16 other postal areas. Its closest postal neighbours are M1N (Toronto (Scarborough)) about 2 km off and M4B (Toronto (East York)) about 2 km off.

The nearest ground where the rate changes is about 300 km away — J0X in Quebec, at 14.975%. That distance is the useful part: nothing bought or delivered in M1L is a borderline case, so the only rate question worth asking here is whether the sale is taxable at all, not which province's number applies to it.

M1L is suburban ground serving about 35,000 across 4 communities — the settlement pattern where delivered goods matter most. A parcel addressed into M1L carries Ontario's 13% even when the seller is registered in Alberta and charges 5% to every customer at home.

The 13% above is set for the whole of Ontario and does not move between postal codes — M1L pays exactly what every other Ontario code pays. Overnight accommodation is where Toronto parts company with them. The city levies a 6% Municipal Accommodation Tax on top of HST, so a $200 room night inside M1L carries $12.00 that the identical room would not carry in an Ontario municipality that never adopted one. The rate came down from 8.5% on 1 August 2026, the temporary increase having lapsed. Hotels and short-term rentals are charged at the same rate.

Everything above is particular to M1L; the rules that are not — registration thresholds, filing frequency, input tax credit recovery, point-of-sale rebates — are set for the whole of Ontario, and they live on the Ontario sales tax guide rather than being restated on M1L's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 13%.

Working the 13% on a Purchase in M1L

FSA M1L Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA M1L in the Toronto (Scarborough) area, the sales tax rate is 13%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into M1L: What You Need to Register For

Ontario runs a HST system administered by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), with a registration threshold of $30,000 (HST). Filing frequency, input tax credit recovery, point-of-sale rebates and the full registration walkthrough are set out on the Ontario 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 M1L is an Ontario sale, so charge 13% HST — your own address does not enter into it.
2. Show it the way Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) expects. One HST line and the total tax amount on each 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 Ontario and is set out once on the Ontario sales tax guide and in the Ontario GST/HST calculator.

Postal Codes Near M1L

All 13%, like M1L — 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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