Sales Tax for P4P — Timmins

What Postal Code P4P Covers

P4P covers South Porcupine and the Porcupine camp east of Timmins. The Dome Mine here operated for more than a century after the 1909 gold rush. The 1911 Porcupine Fire that swept the settlements killed hundreds and remains one of the deadliest wildfires in Canadian history.

Communities & neighbourhoods in P4P

Local landmarks

• Porcupine Lake
• South Porcupine
• Dome Mine

Where P4P Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

The centroid of P4P falls roughly 9 km east of Timmins, and the code shares its delivery city with 2 other postal areas. Its closest postal neighbours are P0N (South Porcupine / Timmins) about 1 km off and P4N (Timmins) about 9 km off.

The nearest postal area we hold in another province is J9Z (La Sarre, Quebec), about 150 km from P4P. A $500 order delivered into P4P carries $65.00 in HST; the same order delivered into J9Z carries $74.88 in GST + QST — $9.88 apart on one invoice. Because Canadian sales tax follows the customer, a seller in Timmins shipping to both charges 13% on the first and 14.975% on the second, from the same warehouse on the same day.

P4P is suburban ground serving about 12,000 across 4 communities — the settlement pattern where delivered goods matter most. A parcel addressed into P4P carries Ontario's 13% even when the seller is registered in Alberta and charges 5% to every customer at home. Around Dome Mine, 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 — P4P 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 P4P 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 P4P; 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 P4P's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 13%.

Working the 13% on a Purchase in P4P

FSA P4P Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA P4P in the Timmins area, the sales tax rate is 13%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into P4P: 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 P4P 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 P4P

All 13%, like P4P — 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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