Quick Answer
Copart Canada adds a tiered buyer fee, a virtual bid fee, a flat $79 gate fee and a $10 environmental fee to your bid, then provincial sales tax of 5%–15%. On a C$3,000 Live bid paid by a secured method the fees are C$788, and the Ontario (13% HST) all-in cost is C$4,280.44; in Alberta (5% GST) the same car is C$3,977.40. Copart publishes no CARFAX fee and no title fee for Canada.
How Copart Canada Fees Are Calculated
Copart Canada bills in Canadian dollars on its own schedule — not the US one — and then provincial sales tax (GST, HST or GST+PST) is added. Your all-in cost is:
The buyer fee is tiered by the bid and depends on whether you pay by a secured or an unsecured method; above $15,000 a percentage replaces the table. The virtual bid fee is tiered by the bid and higher for a Live bid. The gate fee is $79 flat — Canada has no clean/non-clean split like the US — and the environmental fee is $10, not the US $15. A broker fee is an optional input and starts blank.
Copart Canada Buyer Fee Chart 2026 (CAD)
The buyer fee is the largest charge, and Copart Canada prices it in two columns: one for a secured payment and a dearer one for an unsecured payment. The unsecured figure is higher at every one of the 38 brackets, not just on expensive lots. Below $15,000 the fee is a flat bracket amount; from $15,000 it becomes a percentage of the bid. This is the Standard tier — fewer than five vehicles a year, which is every private buyer.
| Winning bid (CAD) | Buyer fee · secured | Buyer fee · unsecured |
|---|---|---|
| $0 – $49.99 | $115 | $125 |
| $50 – $99.99 | $115 | $125 |
| $100 – $199.99 | $140 | $150 |
| $200 – $299.99 | $175 | $185 |
| $300 – $399.99 | $205 | $220 |
| $400 – $499.99 | $235 | $255 |
| $500 – $599.99 | $260 | $285 |
| $600 – $699.99 | $300 | $330 |
| $700 – $799.99 | $310 | $345 |
| $800 – $899.99 | $320 | $360 |
| $900 – $999.99 | $320 | $365 |
| $1,000 – $1,199.99 | $340 | $390 |
| $1,200 – $1,299.99 | $350 | $415 |
| $1,300 – $1,399.99 | $365 | $435 |
| $1,400 – $1,499.99 | $380 | $455 |
| $1,500 – $1,599.99 | $390 | $470 |
| $1,600 – $1,699.99 | $410 | $495 |
| $1,700 – $1,799.99 | $420 | $510 |
| $1,800 – $1,999.99 | $440 | $540 |
| $2,000 – $2,399.99 | $470 | $590 |
| $2,400 – $2,499.99 | $480 | $605 |
| $2,500 – $2,999.99 | $500 | $650 |
| $3,000 – $3,499.99 | $600 | $775 |
| $3,500 – $3,999.99 | $675 | $875 |
| $4,000 – $4,499.99 | $710 | $935 |
| $4,500 – $4,999.99 | $750 | $1,000 |
| $5,000 – $5,999.99 | $750 | $1,000 |
| $6,000 – $7,499.99 | $800 | $1,050 |
| $7,500 – $7,999.99 | $815 | $1,075 |
| $8,000 – $8,499.99 | $840 | $1,120 |
| $8,500 – $8,999.99 | $840 | $1,170 |
| $9,000 – $9,999.99 | $840 | $1,225 |
| $10,000 – $10,499.99 | $875 | $1,335 |
| $10,500 – $10,999.99 | $900 | $1,385 |
| $11,000 – $11,499.99 | $925 | $1,430 |
| $11,500 – $11,999.99 | $950 | $1,480 |
| $12,000 – $12,499.99 | $975 | $1,525 |
| $12,500 – $14,999.99 | $1,000 | $1,620 |
| $15,000 and above | 7.25% of bid | 12.25% of bid |
The virtual bid fee is charged for bidding online, tiered by the bid and about $10 higher for a Live bid than for a Pre-Bid:
| Bid amount | Pre-Bid | Live bid |
|---|---|---|
| $0 – $99.99 | Free | Free |
| $100 – $499.99 | $39 | $49 |
| $500 – $999.99 | $49 | $59 |
| $1,000 – $1,499.99 | $69 | $79 |
| $1,500 – $1,999.99 | $79 | $89 |
| $2,000 – $3,999.99 | $89 | $99 |
| $4,000 – $5,999.99 | $99 | $109 |
| $6,000 – $7,999.99 | $119 | $139 |
| $8,000 and above | $129 | $149 |
One thing worth knowing if you go looking for these numbers yourself: Copart publishes the Canadian schedule on copart.com, not copart.ca — the Canadian domain’s member-fees page renders with no fee table in it at all.
Copart Canada Sales Tax by Province
This is the part most fee calculators skip, and it moves the total more than any fee does. The combined rate runs from 5% to 15%, so the same car costs hundreds of dollars more in Ontario than in Alberta. Pick your province and the calculator applies the right rate:
| Province / territory | Tax | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Alberta | GST | 5% |
| British Columbia | GST + PST | 12% |
| Manitoba | GST + PST | 12% |
| New Brunswick | HST | 15% |
| Newfoundland & Labrador | HST | 15% |
| Northwest Territories | GST | 5% |
| Nova Scotia | HST | 14% |
| Nunavut | GST | 5% |
| Ontario | HST | 13% |
| Prince Edward Island | HST | 15% |
| Quebec | GST + QST | 14.975% |
| Saskatchewan | GST + PST | 11% |
| Yukon | GST | 5% |
Gate and Environmental Fees — and What Copart Canada Does Not Publish
Only two flat charges are published for Canadian sales, and both are in the calculator’s total:
| Fee | Amount (CAD) | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Gate fee | $79 | Every sale — releasing the vehicle. Flat, with no clean/non-clean split |
| Environmental fee | $10 | Every sale. Lower than the US $15 |
Three more things are genuinely absent from Copart’s Canadian pages, and we would rather say so than print a number we cannot stand behind. Storage, late-payment and relist charges are not on the Canadian fee schedule — they come from the Member Terms, the yard and your invoice. Membership fees and any deposit are not published for Canada either, so do not assume they match the US figures. If you want to see what a fully published, day-by-day late-and-storage table looks like, Copart UK does print one, and it is set out on our Copart UK fee calculator page.
How to Use the Copart Canada Fee Calculator
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Enter your winning bid (CAD)
Type the high bid you expect to pay in Canadian dollars. The buyer fee and virtual bid fee are both worked out from this amount.
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Choose the bid type and payment method
Pick Live bid or Pre-Bid, then Secured or Unsecured. Secured is the wire or certified-payment column; unsecured is the card column, and it costs more at every bracket — $175 more on a $3,000 bid before tax.
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Select your province
The rate is applied to the bid plus the fees. On a $3,000 secured Live bid that is the difference between $4,280.44 in Ontario and $3,977.40 in Alberta.
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Read the breakdown
Add a broker’s own fee only if you are bidding through one; it starts blank. The panel then itemises every fee, the sales tax and the all-in total, plus fees and tax as a percentage of your bid.
Copart Canada Fee Examples
Every row is a Live bid with no broker fee, taxed on bid + fees as described above:
| Bid (CAD) | Province · payment | Fees + tax | All-in cost | % of bid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | Ontario 13% · secured | $704.04 | $1,704.04 | 70.4% |
| $3,000 | Ontario 13% · secured | $1,280.44 | $4,280.44 | 42.7% |
| $3,000 | Alberta 5% · secured | $977.40 | $3,977.40 | 32.6% |
| $3,000 | Ontario 13% · unsecured | $1,478.19 | $4,478.19 | 49.3% |
| $5,000 | Quebec 14.975% · secured | $1,838.71 | $6,838.71 | 36.8% |
| $20,000 | Ontario 13% · secured | $4,507.44 | $24,507.44 | 22.5% |
The three $3,000 rows are the same vehicle. Moving from Ontario to Alberta saves $303.04, all of it tax; paying by card instead of a secured method costs $197.75, of which $175 is the fee itself and the rest is the tax on that fee. And the fee-and-tax share falls as the bid rises — 70.4% of a $1,000 bid against 22.5% of a $20,000 one — because below $15,000 the buyer fee is a flat bracket amount rather than a percentage.
How to Reduce Copart Canada Fees
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Pay by a secured method
The unsecured column is higher at all 38 brackets — $600 against $775 on a $3,000 bid — and from $15,000 the rate is 7.25% against 12.25%. This is the largest single saving available to a private buyer.
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Know your province’s rate before you bid
Tax is 5% in Alberta and the territories but up to 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and PEI. On a $3,000 win that spread is $303.04.
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Use a Pre-Bid where you can
A Pre-Bid’s virtual bid fee is about $10 lower than a Live bid across the brackets, and the tax on it comes down with it.
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Ask the yard for its storage and payment terms in writing
They are not on the published fee schedule, so the only figure you can rely on is the one your yard gives you. Get it before you bid, not after the free window closes.
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Budget with the all-in total, not the bid
Fees and tax are 70.4% of a $1,000 bid. Run the number here first and set a maximum bid that keeps the whole total inside your budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
Buying from a Copart auction elsewhere? Use our Copart Fee Calculator (USA) for US fees, title and payment splits, or the Copart UK Fee Calculator for Fee A, Fee B and 20% VAT.
