Sorry - forgot the Canuck nuances :) - I did preface it by saying - please don't take any of it as final! -
As for a company adding those fees when shipping to Canada - one of my clients ahd me do it. Perhaps that is why they killed the shipping to Canada within 3 months - it was expensive! jay miller Bryan Stevenson wrote: Matt, Jason's info is a tad off in some cases....I'm a Canuck...trust me ;-) For starters the brokerage fee and all that nonsense is only in play if the goods cross the border. That said, I have yet to see 1 US site add these fees to the price when shipping goods to Canada (we end up getting an additional bill from the CCRA...like IRS for you yanks). BTW that bill is often about half the cost of the goods!!!!! The rates for provinces are off and are combining 2 taxes (GST and PST and sometimes HST). These amounts need to be reported seperately. I've already contacted Matt offline, but for anyone else interested go here: http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/menu-e.html <http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/menu-e.html> (like IRS) and follow the tax link...it should give all the details for each province. HTH Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:bryan@;electricedgesystems.com> --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com <http://www.macromedia.com> --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com <http://www.cfug-vancouverisland.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Miller" <mailto:millerj@;etcnj.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <mailto:cf-talk@;houseoffusion.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:10 AM 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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
