Canadian Tax Rates

[romance1]

Hello! I am trying to get my online shop set up...all is well except tax rates. I need to have HST(15%) charged in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick; GST(7%) charged to the other provinces and territories in Canada; and no tax to US and foreign customers. How do I set it up? When I set up a 15% HST for a zone (Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, NewBrunswick), I tried to set up a dummy account for Alberta, and I get charged the same tax rate (15%). Shouldn't it be zero unless it is in the tax zone established? Any help would be appreciated!! I have a taxable goods tax class set up only. Should I set up other tax classes as well? Thanks!

[ecgbyme]

Hello! I am trying to get my online shop set up...all is well except tax rates. I need to have HST(15%) charged in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick; GST(7%) charged to the other provinces and territories in Canada; and no tax to US and foreign customers. How do I set it up? When I set up a 15% HST for a zone (Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, NewBrunswick), I tried to set up a dummy account for Alberta, and I get charged the same tax rate (15%). Shouldn't it be zero unless it is in the tax zone established? Any help would be appreciated!! I have a taxable goods tax class set up only. Should I set up other tax classes as well? Thanks!

 

I'm having a similar problem. When checking out in US Dollars with a US dummy account I'm getting Taxes nil + GST. In administration I have the United States tax rate set to '0' description 'nil'.

[Guest]

I'm getting hte same issue here in BC

 

I need to charge BC customers gst and pst , customers outside of bc only gst and international customers not tax.

 

When i set this up and tried to out i get this on my checkout page

 

Sub-Total: $119.79 (ORIGINALY PRICE IS $99)

Table Rate (Best Way): $15.00

GST 7% + no tax outside of canada + GST and PST: $20.79

Total: $134.79

 

I'm not sure why it's adding all the taxes in.

[Guest]

Let me statewhats going on again. I've played with it some more.

 

My shop is in BC and I need to charge BC customers GST and PST = 14%

For customers living in Canada, but not in BC they get charged the GST = 7%

For international customers there is 0%

 

Canada has a few provinces, alberta, manitoba etc how do i set it up so that BC customers get charged GST and PST while customer from other place in Canada get the Gst charge?

 

I know to go into

Locations / Taxes

Tax Zones

and setup the country Canada, and get the tax rate to 7%, but i'm having problems getting it to reconize the BC customers.

 

How does it reconize each customer? By thier address, postal code, city or conutry? When people create a account should they have to fill in thier country and state/province as well? I've not got that option setup in the create account function.

 

My international tax rate works. No tax is charged in checkout for a US or other address. But in Canada I'm getting all the taxes charged GST/PST + GST = 3 taxes being charged.

[francisbay]

2 things I can recommend.

 

learn the hardway and you will learn a lot.

1) Attend the PST,GST&HST seminar and they will help you. I did and it helped me than the contribution.

 

Take the easy way

2) Search the contribution board and you will find it or if your hosting company is in Canada and they supports oscommerce ask for the contribution for tax rates.

[Jan Zonjee]

I'm getting hte same issue here in BC

You are familiar with the contribution Canada Tax Zones Setup notes which explains the Canada tax system?

[Guest]

Did you guys get this to work yet?

 

Its driving me nuts. More a a technical problem than anything else. It shows the taxes etc...but its not added to the total??

 

Very confused.

 

Also, how does it recognize my province/state if I never enter it? Can it interpret postal codes?

[Guest]

bump

[Guest]

I've kinda got it to work, I'm only currently charging the GST 7% on all Canadian customers.

 

It looks like i need to add a 'Province Selection' to the account setup. You can currently select your country (the tax rate is based on country) but not the province. If i can somehow add the province selection I should be able to have the tax rate for BC separate from the rest of Canada.

 

Make sense? :huh:

 

 

 

Sorry somehow I can't edit??

 

Anyways I've studied the tax rates in Canada, thats not an issue.

 

The issue seems does it reconize province's in Canada? Does it reconize the states in the US? If so it should be an easy thing to make it reconize the provinces as well.

 

ANyone?

[ddp]

I'm not sure if you solved this problem or not but if you have not here is what you need to do:

 

Create a tax zone for Canada and one for the Province you run youir business in. Then you need to create two tax rates and apply them the the appropriate zone. The GST rate to the Canada Zone and the PST (or whatever) to the Zone you set up for the province you run your business in.

 

Hope this helps.

[arkitekt]

There is an option to add the province/state to the account signup via Admin > Configuration > Customer Details ... look for the state option to add that.

 

Even with that option added though, I'm having trouble with PST displaying... it appears to be charging the PST in the tax because although it says GST (7%) the actually amount appears to be 15%. I'm wondering if it's something in my language files that is not correct.

[Guest]

I did finally get around to adding the state/province option, thanks.

 

I had to have 3 tax zones: International Zone - no tax / B.C Zone - gst and pst / Canada Zone - gst only. Things work good for me now.