Summary: Cannabis Fees Order Guide

Overview

This guide provides information about the Cannabis Fees Order with a focus on how Health Canada administers the annual regulatory fee and how licence holders should calculate the fee.

Who this guide is for

Holders of the following licences, or applicants for those licenses which are subject to fees under the Cannabis Fees Order:

• cultivation (standard, micro, nursery)
• processing (standard, micro)
• sale for medical purposes

In this guide

• 1.0 Purpose
• 2.0 Background
• 3.0 Scope
• 4.0 Fee payment procedures
• 5.0 Transactional fees
  • 5.1 Application screening fee
  • 5.2 Security clearance fee
  • 5.3 Import/export permit fee
  • 5.4 Annual adjustment of transactional fees
• 6.0 Annual regulatory fee
  • 6.1 Calculating the annual regulatory fee
    • 6.1.1 Minimum fee
    • 6.1.2 Cannabis revenue
    • 6.1.3 Annual regulatory fee rate
• 6.2 Timing and application of the annual regulatory fee
• 6.3 Exemption from the annual regulatory fee
• 6.4 Statement of cannabis revenue
• Appendix A: Annual regulatory fee calculations by year
• Appendix B: Sample statement of cannabis revenue

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Details and history

Published: October 2018

For assistance

If you have general inquiries about the cannabis fees, please send an email to: cannabis@canada.ca