Ontario is eliminating licence plate renewal fees and the requirement to have a licence plate sticker for passenger vehicles, light-duty trucks, motorcycles and mopeds, effective March 13, 2022.
Renewal fees will also be eliminated for passenger, light duty commercial vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds that are owned by a company or business. Renewal fees and requirements for licence plate stickers for heavy commercial vehicles and snowmobiles will remain unchanged.
The province will issue a refund to eligible individual owners of vehicles for the licence plate renewal fees paid since March 2020. The government says no refunds will be given for the period of March 2020 to March 2022 for vehicles owned by companies or businesses.
“As the cost of living continues to go up, our government is cutting costs for families to make life more affordable,” said Premier Doug Ford in a statement. “Eliminating the fee to renew your licence plate and refunding the cost of doing so for the past two years is a concrete way we can put and keep more money in the pockets of hard-working Ontarians.”
The province says vehicle owners are still required to renew their licence plate every one or two years at no cost to confirm their automobile insurance is valid and pay any outstanding Highway 407 tolls and other municipal fines.
Ontario is investing in Automated Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology that can read thousands of licence plates per minute allowing officers to process more information on licence plates. As per the news release, ALPR has the capability of capturing vehicles of interest such as amber alerts, drivers with a suspended licence, and stolen vehicles.
Quebec, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Manitoba and Alberta have also removed physical licence plate stickers.
HOW TO GET A REFUND
Credit: Ontario.ca
Who will be refunded: All licence plate sticker fees paid between March 1, 2020 and March 12, 2022 for vehicles owned by individuals will be refunded.
The elimination of renewal fees will save vehicle owners $120 a year in southern Ontario and $60 a year in Northern Ontario for passenger and light commercial vehicles.
According to the news release, eligible individual owners of vehicles will be refunded the licence plate renewal fees paid since March 2020 after the government passes red tape legislation. The province says vehicle owners will receive a cheque in the mail starting at the end of March and throughout the month of April.
To receive a refund cheque, vehicle owners must pay any outstanding fees, fines or tolls. Those who have moved recently will need to confirm that their address information on their vehicle permit or driver’s licence is up-to-date at Ontario.ca/AddressChange by March 7, 2022.
If you moved to another province, territory or country, you will need to write a letter and mail it to Ontario Shared Services Revenue and Billing Management LCS Operations, 159 Cedar Street, 6th Floor, Suite 600, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 6A5.
The letter should include your new mailing address, your Ontario driver’s licence number, or your name and date of birth, a photocopy of either your new driver’s licence, issued by the new licensing authority where you currently live and which shows the date of issue, or a confirmation letter from the licensing authority where you live, which says that you are now a licensed driver in that place and includes the date that you surrendered your Ontario driver’s licence.
For more information and/or assistance with changing an address, Call ServiceOntario’s dedicated line at 1-888-333-0049.
More Information is available here.
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1 2 3 4 Next »Is there a form to fill out to get my sticker refund that I have to fill out to get my refund on my plates.
I have moved to Alberta just this month. I received a cheque from the government of Ontario for the renewal fees. Can I also get a refund if I return the actual license plates? Also can I get a refund for my drivers license?
My lom got hers but only $50. We love on Toronto and paid $120
people look at the examples on line. if you bought a sticker in Feb. 2020. then starting march 2020 its $10 for every month. so from march 2020 to Feb. 2021. then Feb. 2021 to Feb. 2022. that's $120+$110 you should get.
you only needed to update the address if you moved.
I got my refund cheque today and the letter stated the refund was from March 2020 to present. My cheque was issued for $30.00???? Anyone have any idea how that was calculated?.
This must be an error. Please contact Service Ontario at 1-888-333-0049.
According to the Ontario website, you should receive $60 or $120 per year depending on the place you live.
As per my understanding, if in Southern Ontario - $240+10 per any extra month on your sticker after March 1, 2022. Say May 2022 - $240+20 = $260 (what I received).
We have 2 vehicles. Got a cheque for them both but for only one year.
I got my cheque yesterday. I've lived at the same address for 11 years and didn't need to verify it. I have two cars in my name, one that I drive and one that my daughter drives. I was refunded the amount I paid for both stickers back to March 2020 and any amount that I'd paid into the future for those sticker.
Stickers paid by someone who has passed away, does the estate get that refund?
Another waste of online life as nobody has a clue about same address sticker refunds. Even the daily news said you must go online and register and it's a dead end when trying. Pitiful government.
Will Alberta get this rebate as well? Or is this just Ontario?