Free New Brunswick Odometer Disclosure Bill of Sale
New Brunswick is officially bilingual, and an odometer declaration is one of the documents where that matters most: it is a certification, and a certification a party cannot read is worth very little as evidence. Beyond the language question the province's reality is Atlantic — salted winter roads, long rural distances between towns — so the declaration should record the exact reading and be honest about how the kilometres were earned. A CARFAX Canada report will tell the buyer the first part; only you can tell them the second.
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New Brunswick Odometer Disclosure Bill of Sale — What You Need to Know
Tax Details
Because NB taxes the declared price (15% HST, no book check), the odometer carries no direct tax weight — its force here is contractual: the certified reading is what the buyer can later hold the seller to.
Exemption: The family exemption's sworn declaration and the odometer disclosure are separate instruments — relationship governs one, honesty the other.
Inspection Requirements
With no inspection on private NB sales, no official reads the odometer before transfer — the disclosure stands uncorroborated, which is exactly why the exact figure, dated and signed, matters.
New Brunswick Odometer Disclosure Sale — Step-by-Step Checklist
- Write the declaration in the language both parties genuinely read — or bilingually. A certification the buyer cannot read is not much of a certification.
- Record the exact odometer figure in kilometres, with the date of the reading.
- Certify that the odometer has not been altered, rolled back, or replaced.
- Note the pattern of use: rural highway distance versus salted winter town driving.
- Disclose any cluster replacement or odometer failure, with the true accumulated distance.
- Record make, model, year, and VIN.
- Both parties sign a document they can each read, and keep copies.
Common Pitfalls
- Handing a unilingual certification to a party who reads the other official language.
- Understating a reading that a CARFAX Canada report will contradict.
- Ignoring salt corrosion because the mileage looks reassuring.
- Rounding the figure on a document meant to be exact.
Pro Tip
New Brunswick asks for a precise number in a language the buyer can read. Give it both, add the honest context, and the declaration does its work.