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Tax Commission - What We Do - Programs
Paying Your Fair Share

Divisions

 
Taxes Administered by the Tax Commission

International Fuel Tax Agreement

Tobacco Tax
Applied at the wholesale level

  • 15.52 cents per cigarette
  • 14.00 cents per gram for fine-cut tobacco
  • 15.52 cents per pre-portioned tobacco stick
  • 56% of the suggested retail selling price for cigars
  • 6.52 cents per gram for any other form of tobacco

Tax on Private Purchase of Motor Vehicles and other Designated Tangible Personal Property pdf
(eg. boats, vessels and aircraft)

  • 15%-Tax paid by purchaser, if purchase dated prior to July 1, 2006
  • 14%-Tax paid by purchaser, if purchase dated on or after July 1, 2006
Gasoline and Diesel Oil Tax
Collected at the wholesale level
  • 15.5 cents per litre on gasoline 
  • 15.4 cents per litre on diesel 
  • 7.0 cents per litre on propane 
  • 0.9 cents per litre on aviation 
  • 1.1 cents per litre on marine


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