Sales Tax for P4N — Timmins

What Postal Code P4N Covers

P4N covers central Timmins, built on one of the richest gold-bearing regions in the world following the 1909 Porcupine Gold Rush. The city produced more gold than any other camp in Canada. Timmins is also the hometown of Shania Twain, and its municipal boundaries make it one of the largest cities by area in Canada.

Communities & neighbourhoods in P4N

Local landmarks

• Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour
• Shania Twain Centre (former)
• Mattagami River

Where P4N Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

P4N covers ground within about a kilometre of the centre of Timmins — one of 3 forward sortation areas the city is split across, each carrying the same 13% but covering very different retail. Its closest postal neighbours are P4R (Timmins) about 4 km off and P4P (Timmins) about 9 km off.

The nearest ground where the rate changes is about 160 km away — J9Z in Quebec, at 14.975%. That distance is the useful part: nothing bought or delivered in P4N 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.

P4N is dense urban ground — 3 named neighbourhoods inside one postal area, about 20,000 — and density changes the taxable mix rather than the rate. Prepared food, personal services and in-person retail dominate what is rung through Timmins codes like this one, all of it at 13%, while the zero-rated grocery basics that anchor a suburban shop are a smaller share of the total than the province-wide averages suggest. Around Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour, an unusually large share of local transactions are business-to-business, where HST is recovered as an input tax credit rather than borne as a cost. The figure on the invoice and the figure that actually lands on the buyer are not the same, and that gap is the most-misread line in industrial bookkeeping.

The 13% above is set for the whole of Ontario and does not move between postal codes — P4N pays exactly what every other Ontario code pays. Overnight accommodation is where Timmins parts company with them. The city levies a 6% Municipal Accommodation Tax on top of HST, so a $200 room night inside P4N carries $12.00 that the identical room would not carry in an Ontario municipality that never adopted one. It runs out at 31 nights: once the same guest has stayed that long continuously the booking stops being transient accommodation, and the levy stops with it. It ran at 4% from 1 May 2019 under By-law 2019-8306 until council raised it by two points in the spring of 2026 with By-law 2026-9328; half the take goes to the Timmins Economic Development Corporation for tourism and half is directed by council.

Everything above is particular to P4N; 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 P4N's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 13%.

Working the 13% on a Purchase in P4N

FSA P4N Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA P4N in the Timmins area, the sales tax rate is 13%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into P4N: 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 P4N 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 P4N

All 13%, like P4N — 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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