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These tax rates are subject to change. Alberta Treasury Board and Finance will notify registered retailers of changes to tax rates. If you have any questions, call 780-427-3044 or if calling long distance within Alberta, call 310-0000 then enter 780-427-3044.
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- Fuel charge rates – April 2023 to April 2030
- Conversion factors
- Historical fuel charge rates – April 2019 to March 2023
The tables on this page provide the fuel charge rates for each fuel type and combustible waste covered under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and its regulations.
•Fuel charge rates – April 2023 to April 2030
•Table 1 – Fuel charge rates for Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan
•Table 2 – Fuel charge rates for Nunavut and Yukon
•Conversion factors
•Historical fuel charge rates – April 2019 to March 2023
•Table 3 – Historical fuel charge rates for Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan
The rates in Tables 1 and 2 reflect a pricing trajectory for each fuel type and combustible waste from April 1, 2023 to April 1, 2030. The rates also reflect a carbon pollution price that will increase from $65 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2023 to $170 per tonne by 2030. The rates are based on global warming potential factors and emission factors used by Environment and Climate Change Canada to report Canada’s emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Note that the rates for aviation gasoline and turbo aviation fuel in Nunavut and Yukon remain at $0.
In the Act, the rate for marketable natural gas is applied in dollars per cubic metre and the rate for petroleum coke is applied in dollars per litre. However, the industry has indicated that the standard units of measure for deliveries of these two fuels differ from what is set out in the Act. As a result, the Canada Revenue Agency provides conver...
Table 3 – Historical fuel charge rates for Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan
New Brunswick ceased to be a listed province effective April 1, 2020. As such, only the rates from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 applied in New Brunswick.
Effective April 1, 2024, Alberta's fuel tax is 13 cents per litre. The fuel tax on marked gasoline and marked diesel is 4 cents per litre. How it works. Fuel tax rates for gasoline and diesel are adjusted quarterly (January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1) based on the average price* of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil:
The Federal Fuel Charge appears as a separate line item on natural gas bills and consumers must pay it just like any other federal charge, such as the GST. Rates are scheduled to increase annually until April 1, 2030. To see the planned rate increases, head to the Government of Canada website.
If you have received a scholarship, fellowship, or bursary related to a part-time program for which you are a part-time qualifying student for 2022, 2023, or 2024, the scholarship exemption is limited to the tuition paid plus the costs of program-related materials.
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This document provided by Tax and Revenue Administration (TRA) provides the rates for fuel tax and tobacco tax. Please refer to the CURRENT version.
