HST Invoicing (Harmonized Sales Tax)
Effective July 1st, 2010, the British Columbia and Ontario provinces of Canada will be switch to a new taxation scheme which affects a large number of Ronin users.
Fortunately, we designed our sales tax invoicing flow to be flexible enough to provide room for all the various sales tax schemes in the U.S., Canada, UK, and most of Europe. (If there’s anything we can do to better support your country, make sure to shoot an email to Support.)
Our users have already taken notice. Kevin S. from Canada writes:
Hi, love the app. Not sure if you are aware of the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) in British Columbia and Ontario being introduced July 1st, but Canadian businesses in these provinces now require 3 or 4 different tax rates depending on where their clients are located. I wanted to say thanks for taking a free-form approach with tax rates which allows specifying any tax rate on a per-invoice basis… Please just don’t ever change how you are currently handling taxes
Ronin’s free form approach to invoices is an explicit recognition that sometimes, you can never be sure you’re right – so let your users decide:
Ah but there’s a surprise. We also just added compound taxation for our friends in Quebec. With a simple click, you can compound taxes, in the case where the GST is applied to the PST rate:
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