The tax on tax is only in 1 or 2 provinces and it's the PST on top of the GST...
For the the love of hockey and good beer....all Americans stop guessing :-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacy Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:11 AM Subject: RE: SOT: E-Commerce site for Canada > You have to be careful on applying taxes...I believe it's the provincial tax > followed by the GST (goods and services tax). - *think* that's the right > order. > > This means tax on tax. After the provincial tax is applied you then apply > the GST on the price PLUS the first tax. In effect, the actual tax rate in > Quebec is 15.56%. > > I'm also not sure as to whether that method only applies to Quebec and not > all the provinces... > > Cheers, > > Stace > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Miller [mailto:millerj@;etcnj.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:11 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: SOT: E-Commerce site for Canada > > Matt - > I just actually dissassembled a canada shipping/ tax piece on one of my > clients sites I built. > Basically here are the elements - > 1) Broker Fee / Customs and all that - Typically a broker fee is > involved - a percentage based fee. Includes a standard federal percetn > fee too I believe. If not broker- then I guess jsut the federal - my > clients used a Broker to eliminate this guessing. > 2) Province tax - as much as 15% in Newfoundland > 3) Exchange Rate > 4) Your shipping rates - flat rate or carrier > > We applied tax pre-shipping cost - yet the broker fee I beleive needed > to be on complete purchase. > > Hope this little bit helps. Feel free to email me off list if you wnat > further details. > jay miller > > P.S. THe rates i have for province are as follows ( please confirm them) > Province ProvAbr TaxRate > Alberta AB 7 > British Columbia BC 14 > Manitoba MB 14 > New Brunswick NB 15 > Newfoundland NF 15 > Northwest Territories NT 7 > Nova Scotia NS 15 > Nunavut NT 7 > Ontario ON 15 > Prince Edward Island PE 7 > Quebec PQ 16 > Saskatchewan SK 13 > Yukon YT 7 > > Matthew Fusfield wrote: > > >Hi, > >We are building an e-commerce site that is specifically targeted to a > Canadian market. Most of our work has either been US domestic or so > international that we use a 3rd party to do the calculations. > > > >Anyway, anyone know of or have a quick reference to how sales taxes are > calculated in Canada and to what they apply? (ie I believe one of the taxes > applies to another tax, and are shipping charges generally taxed?) We are > having trouble getting information out of our client that is accurate in > this area. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Matt > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
