Originally Posted by willflyforfood
The QST is paid when you register the car at the SAAQ, and not when you cross the border, as the Ministere de Revenu has not (yet) installed their own tax gremlins at Canada Customs! The QST is paid on the Canadian dollar value of the car, as declared by the importer (hint, hint).
In my case, the Ontario Licence Bureau clerk was NOT going to charge me PST. She asked me to sign an exemption form instead. I knew that PST was owing and that I was not exempt. Since I did not want to sign something that I knew was not true I told her that indeed, PST was owed to the Province of Ontario (almost $4K). You should have seen her face!
The good news, in true FT fashion, is that all taxes and duty (federal and provincial) were paid with my AP visa card and so I got about 10,000 points for purchase of my new car.
The car has now been safetied, licensed and insured. All's well that ends well.