Buy a $30,000 vehicle from a dealer in Yukon and tax adds $1,500, so the deal is $31,500 before licensing and registration. Buy the same car privately and there is nothing territorial to add at all. Drive the same purchase across the border into British Columbia and the tax is $3,600, which is $2,100 more.
Yukon is one of 13 jurisdictions this calculator holds a sourced tax rule for. Every figure on this page comes from a government page you can open, dated, and the arithmetic is done in front of you rather than behind a "results" button.
Tax at a dealer
5%
5% Federal GST
Tax on a private sale
None
no territorial sales tax exists here
Tax on a $30,000 car
$1,500
bought from a dealer
The rules, and where they come from
Buying from a dealer
Yukon levies no territorial sales tax, so a vehicle bought from a dealer carries the 5% federal GST and nothing else.
The 5% is the federal statute's own rate, read directly. The other half of that sentence, that Yukon adds nothing to it, is the half we could not confirm on a government page: yukon.ca and laws.yukon.ca both refuse automated requests, the CRA rate pages do the same, and the legacy Yukon government domain serves an expired certificate. Rather than cite a page we have not read, we name the two publishers we did read, listed below. The underlying fact is not seriously in doubt, because Yukon has no sales-tax statute to point at, but the confidence grade should say what the evidence actually is.
Buy from another person in Yukon and there is no sales tax at all. Nothing territorial is added when you register, because the territory levies no sales tax, and the federal GST does not apply either, because a private seller is not a registered vendor and only a registered vendor charges it.
One claim we are deliberately not repeating. Several vehicle-data aggregators state that Yukon collects 5% GST at registration on the bill of sale or the Canadian Red Book value, whichever is greater. We do not publish that. It is contradicted by the only Yukon fee schedule we could read, which carries no tax line at all; it is inconsistent with the federal rule that a seller who is not registered charges no GST; and not one of the sites making the claim dates or sources it. It reads like a Red Book mechanic borrowed from the provinces that genuinely use one, which is British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. If you are registering a vehicle in Whitehorse, confirm with Yukon Motor Vehicles before budgeting either way.
Tax on a $30,000 vehicle bought from a dealer, at each jurisdiction's own sourced rate. Licensing, registration and any federal luxury tax sit outside these figures.
Run the numbers
The calculator prices a vehicle over its whole life, not just the loan: insurance, fuel, maintenance and licensing on top of the payment. Today it does that with Ontario figures.
One honest limit: the full calculator models Ontario. Insurance, licensing and the fee set are Ontario figures in this version, so the all-in monthly number it gives you is an Ontario number. The Yukon tax rules above are sourced and correct, and they are not yet wired into the payment engine.
People also ask
How much tax do you pay on a car in Yukon?
Yukon levies no territorial sales tax, so a vehicle bought from a dealer carries the 5% federal GST and nothing else. On a $30,000 vehicle that is $1,500, for $31,500 all in before licensing.
Do you pay tax on a private car sale in Yukon?
Buy from another person in Yukon and there is no sales tax at all. Nothing territorial is added when you register, because the territory levies no sales tax, and the federal GST does not apply either, because a private seller is not a registered vendor and only a registered vendor charges it.
Does a trade-in cut the tax in Yukon?
Where a dealer takes your old vehicle in trade, the tax is charged on the difference: the trade-in credit comes off the price before GST or HST is applied. That is a federal rule, so it holds everywhere in Canada.