Build your budget

In 2025‑2026, Québec collected $160.4B and spent $165.9B, for a balance of −$5.5B. Your turn: move the sliders and watch what happens to the balance.

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Your balance−$5.5BActual balance 2025‑2026: −$5.5B

Your revenue$160.4BActual revenue: $160.4B

Your spending$165.9BActual spending: $165.9B

Spending

Each area can vary from -20% to 20%.

Santé et Services sociaux $65.9B0%

Éducation $23.5B0%

Enseignement supérieur $11.2B0%

Famille $9.6B0%

Transports et Mobilité durable $9.2B0%

Emploi et Solidarité sociale $5.8B0%

Affaires municipales et Habitation $5.3B0%

Économie, Innovation et Énergie $4.4B0%

Environnement, Lutte contre les changements climatiques, Faune et Parcs $1.8B0%

Other portfolios (16) $19.1B0%

Debt service: $10.1B. It is not decided in a budget: it is the interest on debt already taken on.

QST rate, and an increase or decrease in the tax collected (from −20% to +20%).

QST rate (currently 9.975%) $25.9B9.975%

Personal income tax $49.0B0%

Health Services Fund $9.3B0%

Corporate taxes $14.6B0%

Other revenue, unchanged: $61.6B (federal transfers, government enterprises, duties and specific taxes, miscellaneous revenue).

This is a mechanical calculation: it ignores how the economy reacts (a higher tax can reduce activity, spending can create some).
One point of QST brings in about $287 per person, if consumption does not change.
Federal transfers (equalization, health) are held constant: Québec does not decide them.
Spending is from the consolidated public accounts, including the health and education networks. The balance is the one in the public accounts: revenue minus spending.

Sources: Ministère des Finances du Québec, Public Accounts 2025-2026, vol. 1, p. 88 (budget and actual by portfolio), published 17 July 2026; Statistics Canada, Population estimates (17-10-0005-01) and Consumer Price Index (18-10-0005-01), dataset updated 23 September 2026.