Canadian HST at Different Rate

[Bluej]

Canada has a national wide tax, GST, and provincial tax, PST. Some provinces harmonized GST and PST to become HST. Effectively next July 1, another Canadian province, British Columbia, will implement HST with a rate $12%, which is different from other provinces' 13%. Under the Canadian VAT setting, you can enter one HST value only. Any idea to assign different HST rates for different provinces?

We could switch to State Based Sales Tax, but here are problems: 1) if a customer types in his Province name instead of choosing one, no sales tax will be charged; 2) A general name "Sales tax" will appear on Order Confirmation, not the more appropriate name "HST"/ "GST".

Thanks.

[oldsportbiker]

Re: Canadian HST at Different Rate

Canada has a national wide tax, GST, and provincial tax, PST. Some provinces harmonized GST and PST to become HST. Effectively next July 1, another Canadian province, British Columbia, will implement HST with a rate $12%, which is different from other provinces' 13%. Under the Canadian VAT setting, you can enter one HST value only. Any idea to assign different HST rates for different provinces?

We could switch to State Based Sales Tax, but here are problems: 1) if a customer types in his Province name instead of choosing one, no sales tax will be charged; 2) A general name "Sales tax" will appear on Order Confirmation, not the more appropriate name "HST"/ "GST".

Thanks.

One option is to use Netblazons ZIP based sales tax product and add records for the individual Canadian Provinces. It doesn't solve the description issue but it does end up charging the correct amount of tax for each Canadian Postal Code. If I remember correctly I had to add about 20 records since a few of the provinces have split up their postal codes.

[crozon]

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Could it be changed so the text box where you enter HST is beside each province and can be entered separately like the current PST line?

This is going to affect ALL Canadian stores unfortunately.

[oldsportbiker]

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Not sure if I understand your question, but my client is ok with the description being Sales Tax. We don't have a need to change it.

[crozon]

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Sorry. I was asking if Miva could be changed. Our customers are in Canada so we like to see HST, PST, & GST not just sales tax.

[Rick Wilson]

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Christine,

Is that on the Dream Features thread?

[crozon]

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No, I can add it.

[crozon]

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Does anyone know if the Netblazons ZIP based sales tax module will work for Canadian Provinces also?

How is everyone else handling the HST rate for BC since it is different than the standard HST rate in Canada?

[oldsportbiker]

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Their product works with tax rates that are entered within zip or postal code ranges, but it ends up being 1 blended rate. As long as you are willing to split it apart when you end up making tax payments to both the Canadian Govt and the Provinces, it should work ok. Just to let you know, we bought the product primarily for the state of California tax rates, and then I went in after constructing an Excel sheet with GST, HST, and PST and imported the 20 rows from my spreadsheet that included all Canada tax rates blended into 1 number for each Province. I'm not sure you can purchase a Canada only tax rate table, so I used multiple websites to construct it myself.

[crozon]

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Is everyone else going to use PST and GST to calculate the HST for July 1 update?

[Rick Wilson]

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FYI - We plan on having this fixed in Bugfix-3 which will be released Tuesday July 6th.

[Bluej]

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Hi Rick,

It is great you will fix it.

I think you can add a HST Rate variable so that different rates can be entered. Now Canada has three different HST rates(12% for BC, 13 for Ontario, 15% for NS).

Thanks

Blue J
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[crozon]

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Great. Thanks Rick!

Is there another post started somewhere where we can see what will be released in the wombat update at the end of July?

[Rick Wilson]

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Not yet. This is a different update than the late July one too, this doesn't have any new features (Multiple Images or Reports being the main ones) but has about 30 bugfixes for PR7.

[koala]

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Thank you!!