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Tax Filings Canada provides cheap, fixed-fee commodity tax advisory across Canada: GST/HST returns, input tax credit reconciliations and provincial sales tax filings, built for registrants in every province and sales-tax system, with payment only after your work is complete.
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Input tax credits can generally be claimed up to four years back for smaller registrants, but the documentation the CRA demands scales with invoice size. Because the fee is fixed and cheap, the economics stay predictable whether your file is simple or messy.
Most write-ups of commodity tax advisory describe the form. These notes describe the file — what a tax services provider checks first and why.
The first thing we verify on every engagement: Zero-rated exports carry a 0% rate but still require proof the goods left Canada. Without export documentation the CRA reassesses the sale at the domestic rate.
Once that is settled, the next question answers itself less often than clients expect. A business making both taxable and exempt supplies can only recover input tax on the taxable side, and the allocation method has to be reasonable and applied consistently. Where clients most often get hurt is not the calculation but the follow-through, and the rule reads plainly. Input tax credits generally have a four-year claim window for smaller registrants, but the documentation the CRA requires scales with the invoice amount.
In practice, this is why commodity tax advisory rewards a tax services provider rather than a generic preparer: each of these points is a judgement call before it is a keystroke. The smoothest files are the ones where the client arrives with these records already assembled.
The last note is about how we work rather than the rules: every engagement comes with a fixed fee agreed up front, a review with you before filing, and payment after — not before — the service.
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A seller who crossed the registration threshold before registering in Brampton, Ontario had already been penalised over export sales zero-rated with no shipping documentation behind them. A relief application cancelled $143,000 of that penalty.
A second opinion for a platform seller collecting tax at checkout in Hamilton, Ontario found a commercial property purchase closed on the assumption no tax applied because the vendor was not registered in prior filings and recovered $26,000 a year.
An incentive review at a construction supplier selling into three provinces in Calgary, Alberta found management fees between two related registrants carrying tax that only ever went out and came back and recovered $116,000 across 7 open years.
A wholesale food distributor in Moncton, New Brunswick needed a holding structure to deal with a sales tax account filed annually while the CRA had moved the business to quarterly. The reorganisation was tax-neutral and removed $60,000 of annual exposure.
19 months of records at a used-equipment dealer in Regina, Saskatchewan had never been reconciled, leaving nil periods left unfiled, which held up the refund on the one period that mattered. Rebuilding recovered $4,300.
A freight brokerage in Surrey, British Columbia expanded into a second province carrying input tax credits claimed on the exempt side of a mixed-supply business. Every obligation was set up in advance and $90,000 of cash released.
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Commodity Tax Advisory starts at a fixed fee quoted before any work begins. The quote is locked at the outset and does not change mid-engagement, and you pay only after you have reviewed and approved the deliverable. Compare every plan on our transparent pricing page.
At minimum: prior-year returns and notices of assessment, your bank and credit-card statements for the fiscal period, payroll records if you have employees, and GST/HST filings. We send a checklist tailored to your situation after the free 15-minute call.
Most engagements are completed within 3 to 5 business days once your documents are complete. Catch-up work covering multiple years takes longer, and we tell you the realistic timeline before you commit rather than after.
We respond on your behalf at no extra charge for any return we prepared. Every figure we file is supported by documentation retained in your file, which is what turns a CRA review from a crisis into correspondence. See how our CRA audit representation works.
Yes. Late filing penalties compound at 5% of the balance owing plus 1% per month, so the cost of waiting is real. We prioritise catch-up work and, where eligible, file under the CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program to reduce penalties.
Yes. We are a cloud-based practice serving every province and territory, so your location does not change the price or the service. Browse our coverage across Canada to find your city.
We work across construction, healthcare, e-commerce, professional services, restaurants, real estate, transportation, technology and non-profits, each with its own deduction profile and CRA scrutiny patterns. See all industries we serve.
Software applies the rules you already know about. An experienced tax accountant finds the ones you do not: capital cost allowance timing, the small business deduction threshold, shareholder loan repayment rules, and TOSI exposure on family dividends. The fee is usually smaller than the deductions it surfaces.
Our commodity tax advisory services include complete filing, compliance management, and strategic advice customized to Canadian tax laws.
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You are asking the right question, and it has a real answer. A sale of real property is taxable unless an exemption applies, and the vendor not being registered does not make it tax free. Where the purchaser is a registrant acquiring the property for use in a commercial activity, the tax is self-assessed by the purchaser on its own return instead of being paid to the vendor. What we add on top of that is the paperwork discipline that makes the answer stand up if anyone ever asks you to prove it.
Our answer starts where the legislation starts. Registration is mandatory once taxable supplies pass $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters. Input tax credits require documentation that scales with invoice size. Unmatched input tax credits are the first thing disallowed in a sales-tax review, and the assessment covers every period reviewed. From there it is a matter of applying it to your year — and that application, not the rule itself, is where a tax consultant earns the fee.
The questions Canadians actually search on this topic, answered plainly. Browse every question in the Canadian tax answers directory.
HST combines the 5% federal GST with a provincial component in five participating provinces. For 2026 the combined rates are 13% in Ontario, 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island, and 14% in Nova Scotia since 1 April 2025. Elsewhere you charge the 5% GST alone, or GST plus a separate provincial tax. The rate follows the province of supply, not where your business sits.
A write-off is simply a deductible expense. You subtract it from the income it helped earn, so the saving equals the expense multiplied by your marginal tax rate, not the full amount spent. To qualify, the cost must be incurred to earn business or employment income, be reasonable in amount, and be backed by a receipt. Purely personal costs never qualify, and mixed-use items such as a vehicle or a home office are split by business-use proportion.
Yes. Canada's value-added tax is GST/HST. GST is 5% federally in 2025 and 2026. In participating provinces it is combined into HST: 13% in Ontario, 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and 14% in Nova Scotia since 1 April 2025. Registered businesses charge it on taxable sales and claim input tax credits on what they pay, so the tax lands on the final consumer.
HST in Nova Scotia is 14% in 2026. The province cut it from 15% on 1 April 2025 by lowering its own component from 10% to 9%; the federal 5% GST part was unchanged. Nova Scotia is the only jurisdiction at 14%, so the Atlantic provinces are no longer on one rate. Under the transitional rules, amounts that became payable before 1 April 2025 were still subject to 15%.
Yes. Canada Post charges GST/HST on domestic postage, including stamps, at the rate of the province where you buy them: 13% in Ontario, 5% GST where there is no HST. Postage for mail addressed outside Canada is generally zero-rated, so no GST/HST is charged on it. The tax shows on your receipt rather than in the stamp's face value. Check the CRA's GST/HST rates page for the rate in your province.
Alberta is the only province with no provincial sales tax, and the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon have none either. In all four you pay just the 5% federal GST in 2026. Everywhere else adds something, all at 2026 rates: HST of 13% in Ontario, 14% in Nova Scotia and 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island; a separate PST of 7% in British Columbia and 6% in Saskatchewan; Manitoba's retail sales tax (RST) of 7%; and QST of 9.975% in Quebec.
Sign in to CRA My Account for personal tax, or My Business Account for a corporation or GST/HST account, and open the statement of account: it shows the balance, interest charged and any instalments credited. The CRA's individual enquiries line gives the same figure once you pass identity verification. A representative you authorise with AUT-01 can also look it up. A notice of assessment only shows the balance as at its own date.
Yes, and it is usually worth doing. Filing with little or no income is how you claim the GST/HST credit, provincial and territorial credits and, if you have children, the Canada child benefit - these are based on an assessed return each year. Filing also carries forward tuition and other unused amounts, creates RRSP room from any earned income, and keeps your CRA record current for later years.
Most retirement income is taxable. CPP, Old Age Security, employer pension payments, RRSP and RRIF withdrawals and payments from registered annuities all go on your return and are taxed at graduated federal and provincial rates. TFSA withdrawals are neither taxable nor reported. On a non-registered annuity only the interest element is taxed. Tax withheld at source is an estimate rather than a settlement, so the return decides whether you owe more or receive a refund.
Rent on your own home is not deductible on a federal return, so on its own it changes nothing. What it can do is feed a provincial credit: Ontario's energy and property tax credit, paid through the Ontario Trillium Benefit, is calculated partly from rent paid, and Manitoba and Quebec have their own renter measures. Keep receipts and your landlord's name. Separately, employees and self-employed people working from home deduct a share of rent as workspace cost.
The additional property transfer tax is 20% of the foreign buyer's share of a residential property's fair market value, the rate since 21 February 2018. It applies on top of the general property transfer tax in five specified areas: the Metro Vancouver, Capital, Fraser Valley, Nanaimo and Central Okanagan regional districts. It catches foreign nationals, foreign corporations and taxable trustees. Tsawwassen First Nation treaty lands are excluded.
No. Only one claim for the amount for an eligible dependant is allowed for each dependant, and only one per household in a year, so separated parents cannot both claim the same child. Where two or more children live with each parent under a shared arrangement, each parent may claim a different child. A parent required to pay child support for that child generally cannot claim the amount. The dependant's net income reduces what you can claim.
Reviewed and fact-checked by Udit Gupta
Ex Big 4 — Ernst & Young, Deloitte · International & cross-border tax specialist · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program) · Chartered accountant, ICAI & MIA
Udit Gupta has over 15 years of experience helping corporations and business owners with corporate structuring, corporate tax filing, bookkeeping, payroll, GST/HST, cross-border tax and CRA representation. Big 4 trained at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia, he founded his accounting practice in 2014 to serve entrepreneurs, startups and non-resident business owners across Canada. View full member bio.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — member 521458 · Malaysian Institute of Accountants — member CA 44667 · Ex Big 4: Ernst & Young, Deloitte · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), completed 19 Dec 2023 · In-Depth GST/HST Part I, 12 Jul 2022 · Part II, 5 Jul 2023
Editorial policy. Every page is researched against primary sources — the Income Tax Act, CRA publications and CPA Canada guidance — and every rate or threshold is stated with the tax year it applies to.
