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Last updated on March 28, 2025

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Provincial sales tax (includes municipal and regional district tax)

March 24, 2025

Bulletin PST 002, When to Charge and Collect PST, has been incorporated into web content. You can now find this information on our Charging and collecting PST web page.

Please update your bookmarks to the new location on our website.

March 21, 2025

Bulletin PST 005, Buying and Selling a Business, is now web content. Find the new web page at Buying and selling a business. Please update your bookmarks to the new location on our website. This page has also been updated to include a link to the online Clearance application.

March 19, 2025

Bulletin PST 116, Motor Vehicle Dealers and Leasing Companies (PDF, 430KB), has been updated to clarify how we classify trucks and vans, including zero-emission trucks and vans, as passenger or non-passenger vehicles for the purpose of calculating PST.

March 17, 2025

Bulletin PST 142, Online Marketplace Facilitators and Sellers, and Online Marketplace Services (PDF, 360KB), has been revised to add information about the penalty for failing to file an online marketplace facilitator annual information return.

March 5, 2025

The following have been updated to clarify the types of motor vehicles that qualify as zero-emission vehicles:

March 4, 2025

The provincial government announced its 2025 Budget on March 4, 2025. Programs administered by the Consumer Taxation Programs Branch are amended as a result. Learn more at B.C. Provincial budget tax changes.

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Motor fuel tax and carbon tax

March 28, 2025

Fuel sellers will be required to submit carbon tax inventory returns along with documentation that supports the inventory amounts reported. Fuel sellers will use their inventory returns to claim refunds on security-paid fuel they own, or are deemed to own, as of the end of the day March 31, 2025.

For more information, see our updated Additional security payment or security refunds when tax rates change page.

March 25, 2025

B.C. is tabling legislation on March 31, 2025, to eliminate the B.C. carbon tax effective April 1, 2025.

See the news release for the announcement.

March 14, 2025

B.C. is readying legislation to eliminate the scheduled increase to the carbon tax that would have otherwise occurred on April 1, 2025. In addition, government is preparing legislation for this session to repeal the tax in B.C. 

See the related news release for more information.

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Tobacco tax

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