Reporting and Remitting the Tobacco Tax – Wholesale Vendors (Wholesalers)
Returns
You must, by the fifteenth day of the month following the one in which the sale was made, report the amount you collected or should have collected during the month of the sale and remit that amount to us.
Complete one of the following forms, according to your situation:
- Form to Be Completed by Collection Officers (TAZ-17.3.P-V);
- Form to Be Completed by Collection Officers Under Agreement (TAZ-17.3-V);
- Form to Be Completed by Manufacturers Under Agreement (TAZ-17.3.M-V);
- Statement of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Sold and Distributed (TA-17.5.R-V).
The Schedule (TA-17.5-V) complements the forms listed above. You must enclose it with your return.
Remitting the tobacco tax
Under the Tobacco Tax Act, if you did not pay your supplier an amount equal to the tobacco tax for the tobacco sold during the period in question, you must remit that amount to us. If the amount equal to the tobacco tax you collected is higher than the amount equal to the tobacco tax you remitted to your supplier for the tobacco in question, you must remit the difference to us.
For each type of product, the amount equal to the tobacco tax must always be listed separately from the sale price on every document confirming the sale and in the collection agent's accounting records.
You can remit the amount to us in any of the following ways:
- electronically,
- using the online payment service of a financial institution (use your payment code),
- at a financial institution or an ATM (check with your financial institution to see if it offers these payment options); or
- by mail.
If you make a payment on a financial institution's website, be sure to mail us your return and the schedules.
Payment date
Regardless of how you pay, your payment is considered to be received on the date it is received at one of our offices or the date it is processed by a financial institution for remittance to the Minister of Revenue of Québec. To avoid interest and penalties, make sure you account for processing by your financial institution.
Cigar sales
As a collection officer, when you sell cigars to a retail vendor, you must give the retail vendor an invoice providing the following information for each cigar sold:
- sale price;
- taxable price;
- amount equal to the tobacco tax collected for each cigar;
- number of cigars sold, by type.
The invoice must also include the following:
- sale date;
- name and address of both the collection officer and the retailer.
Viewing returns and payment information
Log in to My Account for businesses to view your returns, payments and refunds, as well as your statement of account.
Businesses can have their online service managers consent to online correspondence only for return and payment items in the My Account for businesses communications centre. This consent can be changed directly in My Account.
Penalties and interest
To avoid being charged late-filing penalties, penalties for failing to file or interest, see the remittance schedules for the tobacco tax for the payment deadlines.
If you failed to fulfill your fiscal obligations or filed an incomplete or inaccurate return, you can rectify your tax situation by filing a voluntary disclosure application. By doing so, you may be able to benefit from relief in respect of the penalties and interest prescribed under fiscal legislation.