Topic: Buying a car in Alberta and bringing it to Ontario

[zerran]

I am an Ontario resident, and am thinking of buying an used car in Alberta and bring over to Ontario.

I am not a resident in Alberta, so I know by fact that I have to get a plate from Ontario but I am not sure how thing really works. I can perhaps ask this question to the dealer but I want to know any of you has purchased a car and have brought over to a different province.

With HST replacing PST&GST, I wonder how paying tax works as well. Need some help.

[rrocket]

I think you can get a temporary sticker for your ontario plates..

[articsteve]

You get a temporary Alberta sticker.  When you arrive in Ontario you then need to get a Safety and an E test if you are unlucky enough to live in a smog zone and then register your plates.

You don't pay sales tax in Alberta.  You pay HST in Ontario when registering vehicle.

You use your Ontario insurance policy number.

[zerran]

Thank you for your replies.

For paying taxes, you would still have to pay GST in Alberta when I purchase the vehicle, would it not? If so, do they only charge only the difference (that is 13% minus GST) when I register it in Ontario? or do they charge whole 13%?

[johngenx]

Is this a special or rare car?  If not, why are you buying in Alberta?  Our used car prices are ridiculous.

[Gardiner Westbound]

See the attached Ontario government publication.

Prior to July 1, 2010, an 8-percent Ontario sales tax applied to privately purchased used vehicles - no GST. The HST should have squelched the sales tax on private used car sales. Not one to miss an opportunity to gouge hapless taxpayers, McGuinty promptly invented a new 13-percent tax for privately purchased used vehicles.



 

[Arthur Dent]

Is this a special or rare car?  If not, why are you buying in Alberta?  Our used car prices are ridiculous.

That is what I was thinking. Ontario is so much cheaper.

[articsteve]

For paying taxes, you would still have to pay GST in Alberta when I purchase the vehicle, would it not?

Only if you are an Alberta resident.

[jamie1]

For paying taxes, you would still have to pay GST in Alberta when I purchase the vehicle, would it not?

Only if you are an Alberta resident.

Only if buying from a dealer.  Private sales have no tax in Alberta.

[mrthompson]

Only if buying from a dealer.  Private sales have no tax in Alberta.

Alberta:  The Land of Milk and Honey Cattle and Oil.