Mascouche, Canada Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Mascouche and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that Quebec law generally protects your right to rent out your own principal residence, and an ordinary municipal zoning by-law can't take that away from you. The bad news is that the province left one door open for cities that wanted to push back, and Mascouche walked through it in August 2023. Renting your home to tourists for 31 nights or less is now prohibited right across the city unless the municipal council has approved your particular address as a conditional use.

That approval isn't a form you file and forget about, either. It costs $500, it goes to the planning advisory committee before it ever reaches council, and it gets announced by a public notice plus a sign staked on your own front lawn, so any neighbour who objects gets a turn to speak. Assuming council does say yes, you're still not finished, because a city use certificate and then a provincial registration both have to land before a single night can legally go on a platform. And unfortunately for anyone reading this as an investor, Mascouche's zoning has no "résidence de tourisme" category at all, which means a whole unit you don't live in isn't a permitted short-term rental here at any price.

Mascouche sits in the MRC Les Moulins, up in Quebec's Lanaudière region, so let's walk through what it takes to do this properly there: what the by-laws say in 2026, what the process costs, the three taxes that ride on every night, how enforcement works in practice, and who to phone when you get stuck. Every figure below comes from the city's own consolidated by-laws or from Quebec's statutes and government pages, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't confirm something I've said so. If you're comparing Mascouche against a market where the rules are simpler, run both through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Mascouche, Quebec?

Before you can compare Mascouche with anywhere else, though, you need to know which rulebook governs it, and there are two of them stacked on top of each other.

The bottom layer is provincial, and it starts by drawing the line at a month. Quebec's Tourist Accommodation Act defines a tourist accommodation establishment in section 2 as one where at least one unit is offered to tourists for payment "for a period not exceeding 31 days", and section 4 then makes operating one subject to registration with the Minister. Section 23 is the part that matters most to a homeowner, though. It says no municipal by-law made under the planning act "may operate to prohibit" a tourist accommodation establishment where the accommodation sits in the operator's own principal residence and goes, on a single reservation, to one person or one group of related persons at a time. That's your protection, and it's a real one.

Read the second paragraph of the same section, though, and you'll find the exception Mascouche used. A city can still escape the rule by amending its zoning by-law or its conditional-use by-law through a special procedure, one that deems the referendum application to have been validly made in every eligible zone and then halves the signature threshold. So the province built the escape hatch itself, and Mascouche is one of the cities that climbed through it.

The top layer is what Mascouche built on that exception, and the city borrowed the province's own vocabulary to do it. Zoning by-law 1103 was last consolidated in December 2025, and its amendment 1103-70 defines an "établissement d'hébergement touristique de type résidence principale" as accommodation offered in the operator's principal residence by a single reservation, to one person or one group of related persons at a time, with no meals served on site. That use counts as complementary to housing, which is how it lands in article 94, where one sentence does the real work, because the use is "prohibé à moins d'avoir fait l'objet d'une approbation en vertu du règlement sur les usages conditionnels".

Three conditions ride along with it in the same article, and they close off the workarounds people usually try:

• You can't run it out of a secondary unit. The use may not be exercised in a "logement complémentaire", so an accessory apartment or a basement suite is out even when the main house is yours.
• It's your only complementary use. No other complementary use, from a home office to a family daycare, may run in a dwelling where a principal-residence tourist establishment operates.
• No signage of any kind. The by-law permits no identification for the use, which rules out the small plaque other home occupations are allowed.

Now, what if you don't live in the property? Here the silence in the by-law is the answer, because Mascouche's zoning has no "résidence de tourisme" use class at all. Article 55 puts lodging in class C-4, and the only two options there are a gîte touristique under C-4.1, meaning rooms let in a private residence where the operator lives and serves breakfast, capped at five rooms, and hotels, motels and auberges under C-4.2. Both are commercial uses that belong in commercially zoned parts of the city, not on the residential street where your property probably sits.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Mascouche

Take those two pieces together and the shape of the opportunity gets small quickly. Unfortunately for most people arriving at this page with an investment plan, there isn't a business here in the usual sense: buying a Mascouche house or condo, furnishing it, and letting it whole at nightly rates is not a permitted use, and no fee, permit or corporate structure gets you around that. What's left is your own home, and only after council votes on it.

Geography narrows it again. The conditional-use by-law 1198 sets out, in the table at article 23, exactly where each conditional use can be authorised, and the row covering principal-residence tourist accommodation reads "à l'intérieur du périmètre d'urbanisation et dans les zones RA 603, RA 606, RA 607, RA 609, RA 610, RM 600 et RM 604". That single line can be read two ways, either as the urbanisation perimeter plus seven named zones or as those seven zones alone, and no city page I could find resolves it.

So do check your zone with the permits counter before you spend anything, because outside the eligible zones there's no application to make.

Assuming your address does qualify, council still weighs it against the criteria that amendment 1198-9 wrote into article 26.13, and reading them tells you fairly quickly whether your property is the kind they had in mind:

• Location. The establishment should preferably sit near a regional road, a collector street or public transit, and the by-law says explicitly to avoid the middle of a residential sector or the end of a residential cul-de-sac. Being near a natural site, a heritage sector, a commercial area or another attraction that already draws visitors counts in your favour.
• Concentration. Your property shouldn't sit near another one of these, and clustering on a single street or inside a single building is discouraged. Council weighs the sector type, the road hierarchy, how many establishments already sit on the same or an adjoining street or inside the same building, and the distance between them.
• Capacity. The number of bedrooms you rent out is treated as the physical limit on guests, and the further you sit from a road, transit or an attraction, the smaller that number is expected to be.
• Nuisance and screening. No smoke, dust, odour, heat, gas, glare, vibration or noise outside the building, plus opaque fences, hedges or privacy walls tall enough to sit between your deck, pool or fire pit and the neighbours' lots.
• Parking. Spaces on your own lot have to match the establishment's capacity and the public parking nearby, and laying out extra ones must not cost a tree. Any tree that does come down is ideally replaced with two large-growth ones.

If that reads like a market you'd rather not build a business in, you're not wrong, though Quebec is far from uniform on this. Our Chambly short-term rental guide and the Granby regulation guide cover two Montérégie cities with their own approaches, while the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu guide covers a larger market on the Richelieu. Comparing a few of them side by side is worth an hour before you commit here.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Mascouche

Since council approval is the gate everything else waits behind, it helps to see all three permissions laid out in the order they actually happen, because they come from two different governments and they don't arrive at once.

First, the conditional-use resolution. You submit the application to the designated officer, who checks it for completeness. An incomplete file suspends the review entirely and the application counts as received only on the day the missing pieces arrive, so a sloppy first submission costs you weeks. Once it's complete, the officer has 30 days to send it to the Comité consultatif d'urbanisme, and the committee's secretary has another 30 days to pass its recommendation to council.

Then the street finds out. At least 15 days before the sitting, the clerk publishes a public notice and a sign goes up conspicuously on your property, naming the date, time and place, the nature of the application, and the right of any interested person to be heard. Council then grants or refuses within 30 days, with reasons required for a refusal and conditions allowed on a grant.

Second, the city certificate. Permits and certificates by-law 1090 requires a certificat d'autorisation for a new use, a change of use or a complementary use, and article 22 of the conditional-use by-law says the designated officer issues it on production of a certified copy of council's resolution. Article 45 gives the city 60 days from a complete file, with a written and reasoned refusal inside 30 days. Two details in article 47 catch people out, so keep them in mind: a certificate issued for a new or changed use goes null if the use hasn't started within six months, and equally if operation stops for six consecutive months. A property you only open for two summer months a year would fail that second test.

Third, provincial registration. Quebec registration runs through the CITQ, and the certificate is valid for 12 months, reissued each year when you renew. Display it at the main entrance where guests can see it, and send a copy to every platform you list on, or the listing comes down.

Here's what the whole thing costs, and the numbers are small enough that the process, not the price, is the barrier.

Charge	Amount	Paid to
Conditional-use application	$500	Ville de Mascouche
Certificate for a complementary use	$100	Ville de Mascouche
CITQ registration, principal residence class	$54 per year	Ministère du Tourisme
CITQ registration, general establishment class	$156 per year	Ministère du Tourisme

Article 16 of by-law 1356 on municipal service pricing put that schedule in force on 1 January 2026, and the provincial figures are the rates published on Quebec's tourist accommodation registration page as of July 2026, which also lists $131 for youth accommodation. Keep in mind that the by-law doesn't mark the $500 as refundable or non-refundable either way, so I'd treat it as spent the moment you file.

One obligation outlasts the paperwork. Under article 22.1 of by-law 1198, any condition council attaches that relates to works has to be met within a year of the certificate, while every other condition applies from the day you start operating and stays in force permanently. Break one and the Service de l'urbanisme et du développement durable issues an avis d'infraction and can revoke the certificate, which puts you back at the start.

Required Documents for Mascouche Short-Term Rentals

Given that a suspended file stops the clock rather than pausing it politely, the paperwork is still worth getting right the first time. The list is longer than most municipal applications because a conditional use asks you to argue a case, not tick a box.

Article 15 of by-law 1198 asks every applicant, whatever the use, for:

• Identification. Your name, address and phone number as owner, plus the identification of the lot.
• An argumentaire. A written case for why the application should be granted, naming the use and its activities, identifying any other use running or planned on the property, describing the surrounding area with a complete photographic survey, and justifying the request against the by-law's own criteria.
• An implantation plan at a scale between 1:500 and 1:2,500, showing true north, the cadastral identification of your lot and the adjacent ones, where on the property the use will sit, and every building within 100 metres.
• A fire conformity certificate issued under Mascouche's fire prevention by-law 1156, following an inspection of the premises by the city's fire service.

Then paragraph (i) adds the items that only short-term rental applicants supply:

• the class of tourist accommodation establishment you've applied for or already hold;
• the operating period across the 12 months;
• the number of bedrooms you'll make available to rent;
• the number of parking spaces laid out on the lot;
• for a co-owned building, the passages of the declaration of co-ownership permitting tourist accommodation or, failing those, the syndicate's written authorisation;
• if you rent the home yourself, your landlord's authorisation.

That first item quietly solves a sequencing problem other Quebec cities leave hanging. Section 5 of the Tourist Accommodation Act requires a municipal document confirming the use doesn't contravene the planning by-laws before the province will register you, while a city normally wants proof of provincial registration first. Mascouche accepts a class you've merely applied for, so you can run both files in parallel.

The city certificate under article 41 of by-law 1090 needs its own bundle on top: the application form, a copy of your lease, a copy of your certificate of location with the overall building plan, and a scaled parking plan marking which spaces belong to the new use. You'll write an explanatory letter to go with it, covering the main activity, the existing or previous use, the complementary activities and any interior or exterior work. And because this is a complementary use rather than an accessory dwelling, the sketch has to show the whole building to scale, with the space clearly delimited.

Finally, the province wants proof of ownership, a municipal tax bill or a lease; the co-ownership or lease provisions allowing tourist accommodation; exterior and interior photographs; and civil liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per event. Don't forget that last one, because letting the coverage lapse is its own offence.

Mascouche Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you're able to get through all of that and start hosting, there's still tax to deal with, and three separate charges attach to a night in Mascouche. The good news is that a booking platform usually handles all three for you.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Tax on lodging	3.5% of the price of the overnight stay	The registered platform, or you
GST	5%	You if GST-registered, otherwise the platform
QST	9.975%	You if QST-registered, otherwise the platform

The lodging tax has an unambiguous trail behind it. Section 541.24 of the Act respecting the Québec sales tax sets it at 3.5% of the consideration for the overnight stay, both where the operator makes the supply and where it's made through a digital accommodation platform run by a registrant, which is what Airbnb and its competitors are. The Regulation respecting the Québec sales tax then fills in the blanks the statute leaves, since section 541.24R1 names principal residence establishments and general tourist accommodation establishments as the prescribed ones, while section 541.24R2 points at Schedule II.2 for the regions. Mascouche is listed there by name in Lanaudière, alongside Terrebonne, Repentigny and Joliette. So the tax reaches you.

Sales tax is the piece where your own numbers decide the answer. Section 16 of the same Act sets QST at 9.975%, and GST sits at 5% in Quebec. The Canada Revenue Agency's guidance on platform-based short-term accommodation splits the collection duty in a way worth understanding before you register for anything: a registered host charges and collects GST/HST themselves, including on platform bookings, while an unregistered one leaves it to the platform operator. Registration generally becomes mandatory once your taxable supplies pass $30,000 across four consecutive calendar quarters, and below that, staying unregistered keeps the platform responsible and your filing load at zero.

I wasn't able to read Revenu Québec's own administrative pages for this guide, since the site blocks automated access from where I work and no usable archive copy came back. Everything above comes from the statute and the regulation rather than the agency's summary of them, so if your situation is unusual, call Revenu Québec rather than lean on a reading of mine.

Potential Deductions and Write-Offs

Rental income is ordinary taxable income, and the usual expenses come off it: the share of mortgage interest, municipal and school taxes, insurance, utilities, cleaning, platform fees, supplies, repairs and capital cost allowance attributable to the rental. Renting rooms inside the home you live in means apportioning nearly all of that by floor area and by days used, which is fiddlier than it looks on a spreadsheet.

One federal rule turns all of it on the city's permission, though, which is why the conditional-use resolution matters well beyond the by-law that created it. Section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies deductions for a "non-compliant short-term rental", meaning one in a place that doesn't permit short-term rentals or one that misses a registration, licensing or permit requirement. The denial is proportional too: your expenses multiplied by non-compliant days over total short-term rental days. So running unapproved in Mascouche doesn't only expose you to municipal fines, it can also wipe out the deductions against the income the rental produced. And since Part XX of the same Act makes platform operators report host and property data to the CRA, the income side of that equation shows up whether you report it or not.

Quebec-Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

The federal deduction rule keys off provincial and municipal compliance, so it's worth knowing exactly what Quebec asks of you on top of Mascouche's requirements. The province runs a genuine registration regime, and it has teeth.

Registration goes through the CITQ, and a few provisions of the Tourist Accommodation Act shape day-to-day operations more than the rest:

• Section 5 requires the municipal conformity document with your application, which is why Mascouche comes first in substance even when the files run in parallel.
• Section 7 says a registration can't be transferred, so selling the house doesn't hand the buyer your number.
• Section 12 lets a municipality ask the Minister to suspend a registration for two months, then six, then cancel it. The cases set by regulation have to take offences under municipal nuisance, sanitation and safety by-laws into account, which is how a noise complaint in Mascouche becomes a provincial problem.
• Section 20 makes registration an annual affair, updated and renewed each year.
• Section 20.1 bars a digital platform from displaying an offering without the registration number and expiry date, and from letting anyone book a stay of under 32 days at an establishment that's unregistered, expired, suspended or cancelled.
• Section 21.1 puts every establishment in a public register showing its class, number, dates and current status.

Advertising has its own rules, and they're specific. Quebec's display requirements accept three formats, "Numéro d'enregistrement", "No d'enregistrement" or "Enr." followed by your six-digit number, placed anywhere in the ad as long as it stays legible, and it has to appear on platform listings, your own website, social profiles, print and vehicle signage. On a transactional platform the listing must also carry the certificate's expiry date, so a renewal you forget doesn't lapse quietly, it makes the live listing non-compliant.

The fine schedule is where the province separates itself from the city, because these are provincial-scale numbers. Operating unregistered runs $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 for a company, while operating after a refusal, suspension or cancellation runs $5,000 to $50,000 and $10,000 to $100,000. Letting the $2 million insurance lapse costs $1,000 to $10,000, leaving the number out of your advertising costs the same, and a false or expired number in a listing costs $2,500 to $25,000. Platforms carry the heaviest exposure at $5,000 to $50,000 per breach, which is why they enforce the rule for the province instead of arguing about it.

Does Mascouche Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Those platform penalties answer half the enforcement question before the city gets involved. Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com won't display a Quebec listing without a live registration number and expiry date, so an unapproved Mascouche rental doesn't get quietly tolerated on a major platform. It gets removed.

The municipal side is quieter but genuinely expensive, mostly because of how the fines compound. Article 16 of by-law 1090 covers contraventions of that by-law and of the zoning by-law, setting a first offence at $300 to $1,000 for an individual and $600 to $2,000 for a company, doubling on a repeat. The line that does the damage sits underneath: every day, or part of a day, that the contravention continues is a separate offence. So a summer of unapproved hosting isn't one fine, it's a stack of them.

Neighbour complaints are the usual trigger, and Mascouche has a second by-law waiting for them. By-law 907 on nuisances had its noise provisions rewritten in May 2024, and it now makes it a prohibited nuisance to emit or allow a disturbing noise such that ambient noise exceeds the residual ambient level by more than 5 dB(A). Penalties match by-law 1090's scale at $300 to $1,000 for an individual, and each day again counts separately, which is bad enough on its own.

Then remember that section 12 of the provincial act lets the city carry exactly those offences to the Minister and ask for your registration to be suspended. A run of noise tickets can end the whole operation rather than simply costing you money.

The structure of the approval also puts your neighbours in the loop before you open. A public notice plus a sign on the lot means the street knows an application exists and gets an invitation to speak against it, and once council attaches conditions, breaching them triggers an avis d'infraction and possible revocation under article 22.1. Be aware that this is a far more visible process than filing a permit at a counter, and your neighbours only have to notice once.

What I can't give you, though, is a count of how often any of that actually bites. Mascouche publishes no figures on short-term rental citations, complaints or prosecutions that I could locate, and searching the city's 2026 public notices turned up conditional-use hearings for other uses but none for a tourist accommodation establishment. That absence isn't proof that nobody has been approved, so treat it as no published evidence either way.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Mascouche

Absent that kind of published record, the sensible approach is to front-load the cheap checks and only spend money once the expensive ones look survivable. The order below does that.

1. Confirm the property is your principal residence. The province defines that as where you usually live and centre your family and social activities, and the address you give most government departments. A cottage or a rental property doesn't qualify, and Mascouche's zoning offers no other route.
2. Check your zone. Call the permits counter and confirm your address sits in one of the zones article 23 of by-law 1198 lists. Outside them, there's nothing to apply for.
3. Read your lease or your declaration of co-ownership. You'll need either the clauses that permit tourist accommodation, the syndicate's authorisation, or your landlord's, and finding out that none exists costs nothing at this stage.
4. Book the fire inspection. The conformity certificate under by-law 1156 requires a visit from the fire service, and it's a document you can't produce at short notice.
5. Assemble the conditional-use file. Owner details, the argumentaire with its full photographic survey, the implantation plan showing every building within 100 metres, and the short-term rental specifics: class applied for, operating period, bedrooms, parking, and the co-ownership or landlord authorisations.
6. File it and pay the $500. Expect a completeness check first, then 30 days to the planning committee, 30 days from the committee to council, a 15-day public notice with a sign on your lot, and a council decision within 30 days.
7. Attend the council sitting. Any interested person can speak, so make sure you're there to answer what comes up.
8. Take the certified resolution to the permits counter and apply for the certificat d'autorisation, with the explanatory letter, lease, certificate of location, building sketch and parking plan. The city's permits page says to budget roughly six to eight weeks from filing, while by-law 1090 gives it 60 days.
9. Register with the CITQ. Municipal conformity document, proof of ownership or lease, $2 million liability insurance, photographs, and the $54 principal residence fee.
10. Put the number and expiry date in every listing and advertisement, display the certificate at your main entrance, and send a copy to each platform.
11. Diarise two dates. Your CITQ renewal each year, and the by-law 1090 rule that voids a use certificate if operation stops for six consecutive months.

Who to Contact in Mascouche about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Working through those steps means dealing with three offices, and knowing which one owns your question saves real time on hold.

The city: zoning, conditional use and the certificate

The Service de l'urbanisme et du développement durable, through the permits counter at the hôtel de ville, handles zone confirmation, the conditional-use application and the certificat d'autorisation.

• Address: 3034, chemin Sainte-Marie, Mascouche, Quebec
• Phone: 450 474-4133, extension 1000
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Thursday, 8:30 to noon and 13:00 to 16:30

The city recommends speaking to an inspector before you submit anything, which is worth doing here given how much of the file is discretionary.

The city: general enquiries, by-laws and council sittings

• Bureau du citoyen: dial 311 inside Mascouche, or 450 474-4133 from outside, or email [email protected]. Open Monday to Friday, 8:30 to noon and 13:00 to 16:30.
• Bureau du greffe et services juridiques: 450 474-4133, extension 9000, or [email protected]. This is the office that publishes the public notices, including the one announcing the sitting at which your application is heard.
• Council sittings are held in the council chamber at 3038, chemin Sainte-Marie.

The province: registration and the certificate

The Corporation de l'industrie touristique du Québec (CITQ) processes registrations on behalf of the Ministère du Tourisme.

• Address: 1010, De Sérigny, bureau 810, Longueuil, Quebec J4K 5G7
• Phone: 450 679-3737, or toll free 1 866 499-0550
• Email: [email protected]
• Ministère du Tourisme, establishments: [email protected]

For the tax on lodging, GST and QST, Revenu Québec is the administering body. I couldn't open its pages from this environment, so I'd rather point you at the agency directly than cite a page I haven't read.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Mascouche on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Since I've been careful above about what I could and couldn't verify, the same standard still applies here. I haven't read Reddit threads about Mascouche, because Reddit blocks automated access and its platform policy doesn't permit the commercial use this kind of research would involve, and I found no BiggerPockets discussion specific to the city. So rather than characterise conversations I haven't seen, here's what is actually on the record.

Local reporting caught the city mid-decision. In January 2023, La Revue asked Mascouche and Terrebonne where they stood on short-term rentals. Mascouche answered that "la réglementation en vigueur actuellement n'interdit pas les Airbnb de type 'établissements de résidence principale'", then added that it was starting work aimed at prohibiting them unless the council approved them one by one under the conditional-use by-law. Anyone who read that article and stopped there would've come away with the wrong picture, because the second half of the answer became law within seven months: the zoning amendment is dated 16 August 2023 and the conditional-use amendment 30 August 2023.

The more revealing document is recent. On 8 June 2026 council adopted by-law 1085-13, which added tourism to the urban plan's diagnostic and came into force on 17 June 2026 once MRC Les Moulins certified it. The city describes its own accommodation supply as "très limitée, se résumant essentiellement à un motel", and puts business and corporate tourism down as held back by the absence of suitable rooms and meeting space. So the council picked its answer and wrote it into new objective 3.10: a revitalisation programme for the hotel sector in the station district, funded by tax credits. Nothing in the amendment touches short-term rentals at all, though, and that silence is the tell.

Read those two documents together and the direction is hard to misread. Mascouche knows it's short of visitor accommodation, and it has decided the answer is hotels rather than houses. My own read, and it's a read rather than a sourced fact, is that a city on that path won't loosen the conditional-use gate soon. If you want to see how Mascouche's numbers sit against the rest of the country before committing, the best Airbnb markets in Canada rankings are the faster comparison.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Mascouche, Quebec in 2026?

Only in your own principal residence, and only if the municipal council has approved that specific address as a conditional use. Zoning by-law 1103 prohibits a principal-residence tourist accommodation establishment across Mascouche unless it's been approved under conditional-use by-law 1198. Renting a whole unit you don't live in isn't permitted at all, because the zoning contains no "résidence de tourisme" use class.

How much does a Mascouche short-term rental approval cost?

The conditional-use application is $500 and the certificate for a complementary use is $100, both under by-law 1356, whose 2026 schedule took effect on 1 January 2026. Provincial registration through the CITQ adds $54 a year for the principal residence class, or $156 for a general establishment. The by-law doesn't say whether the $500 is refunded if council refuses, so plan on it being spent.

How long does the conditional-use process take in Mascouche?

Budget several months. Once your file is complete, the designated officer has 30 days to send it to the planning advisory committee, and the committee has 30 days to get its recommendation to council. A public notice then runs at least 15 days before the sitting, with a sign on the property, and council decides within 30 days. The city certificate takes up to 60 days after that.

What are the penalties for running an unapproved short-term rental in Mascouche?

Two layers apply. Municipally, contravening by-law 1090 or the zoning by-law carries $300 to $1,000 for an individual and $600 to $2,000 for a company on a first offence, doubling on a repeat, with every day counting as a separate offence. Provincially, operating an unregistered tourist accommodation establishment carries $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 for a company.

Which taxes apply to a short-term rental in Mascouche?

Three. Quebec's tax on lodging at 3.5% of the overnight price, GST at 5% and QST at 9.975%. Schedule II.2 of the Regulation respecting the Québec sales tax names Mascouche in the Lanaudière tourist region, so the lodging tax applies. Where you book through a registered digital platform and aren't registered for GST/QST yourself, the platform collects and remits all three.

Rules like these are worth reading as a signal rather than an obstacle course. A city that closes the door on renting your own spare room, then writes tax credits for hotels into its urban plan the same year, has told you what kind of visitor economy it wants and who it expects to build it. So find that signal before you find the fee schedule, because fees change every January and the intent behind them rarely does.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.