Comments on: How to configure Magento for sales tax in Canada

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:18:54 +0000

Never mind. I’m an idiot. I got it.

By: Noah

Noah — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:18:17 +0000

I’ve tried multiple times to follow this. I cannot choose two items from the same box. So confusing.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:44:47 +0000

Hi admin,
I have tried your suggestion from last post to separate the GST and HST for the tax rules, but still no resolution. GST is still added to the HST provinces when magento does the calculation. Can anybody give me a solution for this?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:45:08 +0000

Hey Guys

We found a problem with our solution as well after reviewing when we upgraded to the latest version.

What we did is we had to separate the GST from each of the tax rules. GST now is now applied as it’s own rule per province.

Same with HST.

In the example above we had the HST rules merged with the GST rule.

Hopefully this helps those who have been struggling with this issue.

I know im now breathing a sign of relief.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:58:20 +0000

How do you keep a GST rate applying to all provinces from adding up to a HST rate for a specific province within the same priority level. I keep following the same instructions everywhere and I seem to be the only one havng this problem…

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:58:42 +0000

I’m seeing the exact same symptoms as Alex: I’ve configured BC and Ontario to their respective HST rates. The rest of the provinces have their correct sales tax rate.

My Tax Rules look exactly as shown in the screen shot above, except the HST-BC and HST-ON entries are also included in the first row with the other HST provinces and GST. They no longer have their own line items.

When buying a product that is $83.99 the subtotal/grand total show as $88.19. The difference between those numbers is $4.20, or 5% of 83.99, which is the GST rate.

If I de-select GST from the ‘Retail Customer - Taxable Goods - Canada’ tax rule then the HST is applied correctly, e.g. $10.92 is the new tax line instead of $4.20.

I’ve been poring over this and have deleted/recreated the tax rules and zones many times, thinking that I’ve done something wrong.

I’m sure that this is one of things that will suddenly start working after one small item is change; I’m just not sure what needs to change.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Alan

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:01:47 +0000

This didn’t work for me. I tried it multiple times.

This is the problem I get:
For HST provinces at 13%, it calculates it a 100$ item at 118$ with the tax. It adds GST as well for some reason. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris

By: DavidM

DavidM — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:37:01 +0000

Thank you for posting this guide, it was helpful for setting up my store. Just to correct the HST % for BC it’s 12% and for ON it’s 13% as per Canada Revenue Agency website.

ON - http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/gncy/hrmnztn/on/menu-eng.html
BC - http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/gncy/hrmnztn/bc/menu-eng.html

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:36:08 +0000

Hi Andrew

Are you referring to BC and Ontario? The HST only came into effect on July 1st, this post was written before that. To change the tax rates simply download the .csv file and change the values under BC and Ontario to the 12% HST rate.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:30:03 +0000

Hi Alex

This post was written in before the HST came into effect in BC and Ontario. You will need to edit the tax rates .csv file and change the values to the 12% for HST. Hope this helps.

Gabriel