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Ontario Beer Tax Savings

OCB Beer Tax Savings Calculator
Ontario Craft Brewers Beer Tax Savings Calculator

Estimate your savings from Ontario beer tax reform

Compare January 1, 2025 microbrewer taxes with the simplified April 1, 2026 rates. Lets brewers estimate both their draft share and their packaged can mix so the 2025 environmental can levy is calculated more accurately.

Enter annual production or sales volume in hectolitres.
Volume mix
35%
Draft
/
65%
Packaged
Estimated draft share
Adjust the slider to estimate what percentage of total volume was sold as draft beer.
35%
0% draft / 100% packaged100% draft / 0% packaged
Packaged can mix
Adjust the slider to estimate how much of packaged volume was sold in 355 mL cans versus 473 mL cans.
0%
0% 355 mL / 100% 473 mL100% 355 mL / 0% 473 mL
Packaged can mix
0%
355 mL
/
100%
473 mL
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Estimated tax savings
2025 tax
2026 tax
Simplified proposed structure
5-year savings vs OCB dues

Breakdown

See how the estimate splits across draft and packaged beer, including the effect of can-size mix on the environmental levy.

Draft beer
2025 tax
2026 tax
Savings
Packaged beer
2025 tax
2026 tax
Savings

OCB Membership ROI

Based on current OCB dues structure: $495 base + $0.65 per hL over 1,000 hL.

Annual dues
5-year dues
5-year tax savings
Return on dues

Assumptions

January 1, 2025 draft tax is 53.56¢/L.

January 1, 2025 packaged tax is calculated as 57.35¢/L plus an environmental levy of 8.93¢ per can, converted to a per-litre amount using the selected 355 mL / 473 mL can mix.

April 1, 2026 rates are 36.00¢/L for draft and 46.00¢/L for non-draft beer.

This is an estimate for advocacy and planning use, not a filing-ready tax calculation.

Federal Excise Tax Savings

CCBA Excise Savings Calculator

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