Quebec Land Transfer Tax Calculator
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A guide to Quebec land transfer tax
Jamie David, Sr. Director of Marketing and Mortgages
Quebec's Land Transfer Tax (LTT) is a percentage of your home's purchase price, and has a marginal tax rate ranging from 0.5% to 1.5%. Each portion of your home's value is taxed at its own unique marginal tax rate. In Montreal, there are additional tax brackets from $258,600 to $517,100 with a tax rate of 1.5%, and from $500,001 to $999,999 with a tax rate of 2.0%, and finally for amounts over $1,034,200 a tax rate of 2.5%. Quebec's LTT rates are as follows:
| Purchase price of home | Land title transfer fee | First-time home buyer rebate |
| First $51,700 | 0.5% | No rebate avaliable |
| On 50,001 to $258,600 | 1.0% | |
| Over $258,600 | 1.5% | |
| Montreal only | ||
| On $258,600 to $517,100 | 1.5% | |
| On $500,001 to $1,034,200 | 2.0% | |
| Over $1,034,200 | 2.5% |
The land transfer tax in Quebec is indexed to the consumer price index in Quebec. That means it gets higher each year.
Quebec land transfer tax example calculation1
For example, on a home worth $1,200,000 outside of Montreal:
- $51,700 first marginal tax bracket
× 0.50% tax rate
= $258 land transfer tax - ( $258,600 upper marginal tax bracket - $51,700 lower marginal tax bracket )
× 1.00% marginal tax rate
= $2,069 land transfer tax - ( $1,200,000 property value - $258,600 lower marginal tax bracket )
× 1.50% marginal tax rate
= $14,121 land transfer tax - $258 + $2,069 + $14,121
= $16,448 total Quebec land transfer tax
Montreal land transfer tax example calculation
Let's run the same calculation for a home worth $1,200,000 inside Montreal.
- $51,700 first marginal tax bracket
× 0.50% tax rate
= $258 land transfer tax - ( $258,600 upper marginal tax bracket - $51,700 lower marginal tax bracket )
× 1.00% marginal tax rate
= $2,069 land transfer tax - ( $517,100 mid marginal tax bracket - $258,600 lower marginal tax bracket )
× 1.50% marginal tax rate
= $3,878 land transfer tax - ( $1,034,200 upper marginal tax bracket - $517,100 mid marginal tax bracket )
× 2.00% marginal tax rate
= $10,342 land transfer tax - ( $1,200,000 property value - $1,034,200 higher marginal tax bracket )
× 2.50% marginal tax rate
= $4,145 land transfer tax - $2,328 Base Quebec LTT
+ $3,878 MTL land tranfer tax
+ $10,342 MTL land tranfer tax
+ $4,145 MTL land tranfer tax
= $20,692 total Montreal land transfer tax