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Re: Cumulative Tax in Canada

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:58 am
by RedRave
reilly wrote:Why not just use the effective tax rate for the Quebec QST? Thus Under the Tax Class for Quebec, the Description would read QST (7.5%) but the Tax Rate would be 7.875% (rounds to 7.88%).
I just tried using the effective tax rate of 9.975% for the QST with the description that reads "QST (9.5%)" and it works perfectly without having to change code 8) ...more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_Canada

The only issue is handling taxes on shipping...anyone figured out how to do this yet ??? Or nobody bothers with applying taxes on the shipping portion in Canada?