Historical gasoline and aviation fuel tax rates for Ontario, with changes documented from 2017 to 2025. The dataset includes specific rates for unleaded gasoline, leaded gasoline, aviation fuel, and Northern Ontario, provided by the Government of Ontario. It is available in CSV and HTML formats and was last updated on April 17, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling government revenue based on fuel tax rates mentioned in the description
- Analyzing policy changes over time based on historical tax rate adjustments
- Comparing regional tax differences based on the Northern Ontario rate
Strengths
- Includes specific tax rates for multiple fuel types (e.g., unleaded gasoline at 9¢ per litre)
- Documents policy changes with precise dates (e.g., aviation fuel rate changed April 1, 2017)
- Provides a future policy date (propane taxation elimination begins July 1, 2025)
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to open_canada
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Ontario
- Time Range
- Historical data with changes from 2017 to 2025
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:41:24.944231
- Geography
- Ontario, Canada