Sales Tax for T5H — Edmonton

What Postal Code T5H Covers

T5H covers McCauley and Boyle Street in central Edmonton, including the city's Chinatown and Little Italy. The Italian Centre Shop on 95 Street, opened in 1959, remains an institution of the district. Riverdale to the south sits in the North Saskatchewan River valley, part of the largest expanse of urban parkland in Canada.

Communities & neighbourhoods in T5H

Local landmarks

• Edmonton Chinatown
• Little Italy (95 Street)
• Italian Centre Shop
• Riverdale

Where T5H Sits — and What That Changes at the Till

T5H covers ground within about 1 km of the centre of Edmonton — one of 39 forward sortation areas the city is split across, each carrying the same 5% but covering very different retail. Its closest postal neighbours are T5J (Edmonton) about 2 km off and T5B (Edmonton) about 3 km off.

The nearest ground where the rate changes is about 230 km away — S9V in Saskatchewan, at 11%. That distance is the useful part: nothing bought or delivered in T5H 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.

T5H is dense urban ground — 5 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 Edmonton codes like this one, all of it at 5%, while the zero-rated grocery basics that anchor a suburban shop are a smaller share of the total than the province-wide averages suggest.

The 5% above is set for the whole of Alberta and does not move between postal codes — T5H pays exactly what every other Alberta code pays. The bill that does move is an overnight one. Alberta's 6% tourism levy applies on top of GST, and has done at that rate since 1 April 2026, so a $200 room night inside T5H carries $12.00 of it. It was 4% before that. The base is wider than the room rate: booking, service and administration fees, pet charges, cleaning and even smoking-in-a-non-smoking-room penalties are inside it. It runs out at 28 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 T5H; the rules that are not — registration thresholds, filing frequency, input tax credit recovery, point-of-sale rebates — are set for the whole of Alberta, and they live on the Alberta sales tax guide rather than being restated on T5H's page, where the calculator above is already locked to 5%.

Working the 5% on a Purchase in T5H

FSA T5H Tax Breakdown and Calculation Example

For FSA T5H in the Edmonton area, the sales tax rate is 5%. Here is how tax is calculated on typical purchase amounts:

Selling into T5H: What You Need to Register For

Alberta runs a GST Only system administered by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), with a registration threshold of $30,000 (federal GST). Filing frequency, input tax credit recovery, point-of-sale rebates and the full registration walkthrough are set out on the Alberta 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 T5H is an Alberta sale, so charge 5% GST — your own address does not enter into it.
2. Show it the way Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) expects. The GST amount as its own line item.

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 Alberta and is set out once on the Alberta sales tax guide and in the Alberta GST/HST calculator.

Postal Codes Near T5H

All 5%, like T5H — 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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