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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
