Revenu Québec

Client groups

Revenu Québec deals with:

• 5.8 million taxpayers (3.9 million paper income tax returns and 1.9 million electronic returns)
• 785,000 businesses
• 250,000 people affected by the support-payment collection program
• 2.1 million people who benefit from socio-fiscal programs, such as the shelter allowance program, the property tax refund and the refundable tax credit for the Québec sales tax (QST)

Tax revenue and non-budgetary revenue

The revenue collected by Revenu Québec includes tax revenue and non-budgetary revenue.

Personal and corporation income tax represents 40.3% of all of Québec's tax revenue. Consumption taxes, excluding GST, represent 25.4%. Amounts collected for duties and permits constitute the rest of the tax revenue.

Non-budgetary revenue includes amounts collected for other departments or bodies or for the Government. of Canada. Revenue collected for the Canada Revenue Agency (in the context of the administration of the GST), the Régie des rentes du Québec and the health services fund represents 94.2% of the non-budgetary revenue.

For complete information on this subject, see Revenu Québec's Rapport annuel de gestion (available in French only).