Tax on the Registration of Passenger Vehicles (TRPV)

Owners of passenger vehicles registered with the SAAQ at an urban agglomeration of Montréal address must pay this tax.

The TRPV is effected since July 1, 2011 and costs $45 for 12 months. The tax is charged when you renew registration, register a vehicle or license of a stored vehicle . TRPV revenues will provide funding to the Société de transport de Montréal (STM).

It is a motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, moped or minibus, owned by an individual, used primarily for personal purposes and designed to carry up to nine people at a time, for which no permit from the Commission des transports du Québec is required.

The $45 TRPV is included in the public transit contribution. The $30 difference is the usual contribution and will be paid to the AMT.

The Montréal Agglomeration Council can only levy a tax on the territory under its jurisdiction: the Island of Montréal.

Owners who received registration renewal notices prior to July 1, 2011, will not be charged.

No refund is owed the owner of a passenger vehicle due to a change of address.

If a passenger vehicle is temporarily stored, discarded, stolen or destroyed by fire or reported total loss following an accident, the person in whose name the registration is made of a passenger vehicle may claim a refund of a portion of the tax in the cases and conditions provided in the Highway Safety Code.

No refund applies for a change of address.