Tax refunds and credits

Canada Revenue Agency
Get a non-refundable tax credit equal to 10% of the salaries and wages paid to your apprentices, up to a maximum of $2,000/year for each apprentice.

Investissement Québec
Tax credit of 30% (24% refundable and 6% non-refundable) for information technology (IT) sector salaries up to a maximum of $25,000 per employee working on e-business activities.

Hydro-Québec
Get a rebate on the purchase and installation of lighting products and more efficient farm equipment, such as piglet warmers, fans and milk and milking conservation equipment.

Canadian Heritage
Tax credit of 16% on salaries and wages paid to Canadian residents working on a film or video production in Canada.

​Commission des partenaires du marché du travail
Get financial assistance to implement training projects that meet the needs of businesses and workers.

Export Development Canada
Get support for building a global brand and removing barriers to access for your Indigenous business, whether you’re exporting products, services or experiences.

​Vooban​
Have you started your digital transformation and have one or more projects with an AI component? You could receive a grant to cover up to 50% of your activities.

​Gouvernement du Québec
​If you are between 16 and 29 years old, you could get financial and technical support to help you create your business or become self-employed.

Société de développement des entreprises culturelles
Credit of 27% to 35% on various costs associated with publishing books, comic strips and collections of poetry in Quebec, including developing foreign markets, major publishing projects, translation into other languages and creation of digital versions.

Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Private-sector partners creating a non-profit consortium for cooperative, pre-competitive research can get a tax credit of 30% applicable on 80% of the costs.

Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles
If you are a business, a municipality or an organization, you can obtain up to 50% of the eligible expenses for the recharging of your corporate vehicles or your employees, for the acquisition or installation of recharging stations in the workplace, equal to $5,000 per wireless recharging station or $5,000 per connector (for a recharging station equipped with one or more connectors).

Canada RevenueAgency
Get a tax credit of 15% or a refundable tax credit of 35% on the first $3 million of project expenses if you are a small Canadian-controlled private corporation.

Canada Revenue Agency
Get a reduced tax rate if you own a Canadian-controlled private corporation with revenues of less than $500,000.

Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Get a reimbursement between 4% and 18% of net SAQ sales on artisan alcoholic beverages you produce, to a maximum of $450 000.

​Investissement Québec
​Are you an established corporation that subscribes for shares of an innovative growth-stage corporation? Obtain a non-refundable tax credit of up to $225,000.

Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Refundable tax credit of up to 30% for R&D work conducted in partnership with another private company.

Revenu Québec
Tax credit of 14 to 30% of labour costs for scientific research and experimental development expenditures in Quebec.

Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Attract recognized foreign experts who are highly qualified in the implementation of innovation projects to work in Quebec. They will receive a tax holiday ranging from 100% of taxable income in the first year, to 25% in the fifth year.

Investissement Québec
Tax credit on total eligible payroll of 30% for marine biotechnology, mariculture and recreational and tourism activities and 15% for all other eligible activities.

Revenu Québec
Get a tax credit of the eligible trainee wages and other costs of on-the-job training up to a maximum of 32 weeks.

Revenu Québec
Tax credit of 12% to 24% on the cost of in-house design activities. The maximum eligible salary for a year is $60,000 for a designer and $40,000 for a pattern maker.

Société de développement des entreprises culturelles
Refundable tax credit of 20% to 36% of the cost of labour and goods relating to film production, computer-aided animation and special effects.

​Revenu Québec
Get a tax credit for the acquisition of specified property.

Société de développement des entreprises culturelles
Tax credit of up to 35% of labour costs and production expenses relating to showcasing your Quebec production outside the province, up to a maximum credit of $350,000 per production.

Revenu Québec
Tax credit of 40% of the costs of transferring technology from a college technology transfer centre or liaison and transfer centre.

​Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Tax credit of 12% to 24% on the cost of in-house design activities (salary costs up to $60,000 admissible) or on the cost of external design activities by a consultant (65% of contract fees admissible).

Revenu Québec​
Looking to modernize your business processes? Your manufacturing or primary sector SME could get a refundable tax credit for the integration of IT.

Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
If you create a new business by commercializing intellectual property stemming from a university or public research centre, you could be eligible for a tax holiday for up to 10 years.

Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation
Attract highly skilled foreign researchers to work on SR&ED projects in Quebec by offering them a tax holiday ranging from 100% coverage of their taxable earnings in the first two years to 25% coverage in the fifth year.

​CIETECH
​Are you a merchant who wants to initiate a digital transformation in your business? You could receive 10 hours of support for a low price.

​Emploi-Québec
​To enhance the skills of your employees, you can use the expertise of your most experienced employees to train workers with less experience.