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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. We quote excise tax and excise duty assistance as one low-cost fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
Clients often arrive treating excise tax and excise duty assistance as a form-filling exercise. In practice, a tax specialist spends more time on judgment calls than on data entry — and those calls are what these notes cover.
There is no way around the opening fact, so it may as well come first. Registration becomes mandatory once taxable supplies exceed $30,000 in a single calendar quarter or over four consecutive quarters. Exceeding it in one quarter makes the sale that crossed it taxable. Over four quarters, you stop being a small supplier at the end of the month after the fourth quarter.
There is a second layer to this. Place-of-supply rules decide the rate: for most services it follows the customer’s address on file. A supplier in a 5% GST province can therefore owe 15% HST on a sale to Atlantic Canada. 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.
You do not need to hold all of this in your head. You need someone who does — and a tax professional handling excise tax and excise duty assistance week after week keeps these rules current so you do not have to. Think of this list as the raw material a tax specialist works from on excise tax and excise duty assistance.
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5 years of filings at a platform seller collecting tax at checkout in Hamilton, Ontario had never claimed the incentives the work qualified for. The review recovered $51,000.
A platform seller collecting tax at checkout in Hamilton, Ontario had been filing for 5 years. In that time, the incentives its activity qualified for were never claimed. Behind that sat a registration threshold crossed nine months before anyone registered. We tested each activity against the eligibility criteria rather than the description on the invoice. Then we self-assessed the tax on the real property acquisition in the correct reporting period and claimed the offsetting input tax credit in the same return. $51,000 in credits claimed, with the open prior years adjusted as well. The claim passed review without adjustment.
A freight brokerage in Lethbridge, Alberta was scaling. The growth exposed input tax credits claimed on the exempt side of a mixed-supply business. The back office was rebuilt to match, freeing $32,500.
A freight brokerage in Lethbridge, Alberta was opening in a second province. That meant different filing obligations and a different payroll regime. Input tax credits claimed on the exempt side of a mixed-supply business already sat in the file. We filed the section 156 election for the related registrants, so supplies between them stopped carrying tax that served no purpose but cash-flow drag. We then put monthly reporting in place. That let the owner see the cash effect of growth while there was still time to act on it. Growth was absorbed without a compliance failure. $32,500 of cash was released, and the monthly reporting now flags a problem while it is still small.
Remittances at a construction supplier selling into three provinces in Kitchener, Ontario were chronically late. It came down to nil periods left unfiled, which held up the refund on the one period that mattered. Fixing the schedule refunded $94,000.
Remittances at a construction supplier selling into three provinces in Kitchener, Ontario were consistently late by a few days. That was enough to trigger penalties every quarter. Behind it sat nil periods left unfiled, which held up the refund on the one period that mattered. We assembled the export documentation, restored zero-rating on the qualifying sales, and reduced the proposed assessment. Then we moved the remittance dates into a scheduled process rather than a monthly decision. Penalties stopped from the following remittance onwards, and $94,000 of overpaid instalments was refunded.
A professional practice with exempt and taxable supplies in Surrey, British Columbia was 8 weeks from a deadline. The file also carried a sales tax account filed annually while the CRA had moved the business to quarterly. Filing complete and on time avoided roughly $25,000 in penalties.
A professional practice with exempt and taxable supplies in Surrey, British Columbia came to us 8 weeks before its filing deadline. The file came with a sales tax account filed annually while the CRA had moved the business to quarterly. A late filing would have triggered a penalty of roughly $25,000 before interest. We worked backwards from the deadline. We set a defensible input tax credit allocation between taxable and exempt supplies and documented the method for future filings. We prioritised the items that actually gated the filing and deferred everything that did not. The return was filed on time and complete. The $25,000 penalty never arose, and the compliance calendar we set means the next deadline is scheduled rather than discovered.
A wholesale food distributor in Toronto, Ontario needed a holding structure. It had to deal with a registration threshold crossed nine months before anyone registered. The reorganisation was tax-neutral and removed $54,000 of annual exposure.
The structure at a wholesale food distributor in Toronto, Ontario needed fixing. The file was carrying a registration threshold crossed nine months before anyone registered. Every option for fixing it ran through a reorganisation that had to be done without triggering tax. We worked with the client's lawyer. Together, we backdated the registration to the date the business stopped being a small supplier, remitted the tax owing, and applied for relief on the penalty portion. We also prepared the elections, resolutions and valuations the structure needed to stand up. The structure now matches the business. Annual saving of $54,000, and the reorganisation itself was tax-neutral.
A seller who crossed the registration threshold before registering in Red Deer, Alberta was preparing to sell. However, a shareholder loan balance that would have been picked up as income on closing disqualified the shares. Purification sheltered $685,000 under the exemption.
A seller who crossed the registration threshold before registering in Red Deer, Alberta had an offer on the table and 32 months to close. The shares did not qualify for the capital gains exemption. A shareholder loan balance that would have been picked up as income on closing was part of the reason. We purified the corporation so the shares met the qualifying tests. We rebuilt the sales ledger by customer province and applied the correct place-of-supply rate to each stream. We filed corrected returns before the CRA opened a review. All of it was done well ahead of the closing date. The sale closed on schedule with $685,000 sheltered by the lifetime capital gains exemption across the shareholders.
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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.
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It depends less on opinion than owners assume. The rate charged follows the customer's province, not the seller's: 13% into Ontario, 15% into New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and PEI, 14% into Nova Scotia (since 1 April 2025), 5% plus provincial tax elsewhere. A seller charging its own province's rate nationally is under-collecting on some sales and over-collecting on others, and owes the difference on the under-collected ones. Once you know that, the practical question becomes timing and documentation — both of which we handle inside the engagement.
Here is what the rules actually say, stripped of the folklore: 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. Our role as your tax advisor is to apply that cleanly to your situation rather than to a hypothetical one.
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Multiply the pre-tax price by the combined sales tax rate for the province where the sale takes place, then add that amount to the price. In HST provinces it is one rate; elsewhere GST and the provincial tax are applied separately, and in Quebec the QST is calculated on the price before GST rather than on a GST-included amount. Zero-rated and exempt items get nothing added. The place of supply decides the rate, not where your business is based.
The GST rate is 5%, unchanged since 1 January 2008 and current for 2025 and 2026. It reaches every province and territory, but in five provinces it is folded into the HST: you charge 13% in Ontario, 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and 14% in Nova Scotia, down from 15% on 1 April 2025. In Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon, 5% applies alone.
The business number is the single identifier the CRA uses for your business, with a separate programme account opened under it for each obligation: GST/HST, payroll deductions, corporate income tax, import and export. Register through Business Registration Online, by phone or by mail, or receive one automatically when you incorporate federally. You need it before you can remit payroll or file GST/HST. Provincial registration is separate in some provinces, notably Quebec, where Revenu Québec administers its own accounts.
No. Quebec sits outside the HST system. You charge the 5% federal GST plus Quebec sales tax at 9.975%, applied to the pre-GST price, for a combined 14.975%. The two are reported separately, and QST is generally administered by Revenu Quebec rather than the CRA. If you sell into Quebec from another province, check on the Revenu Quebec site whether you must register for QST as well as GST/HST.
Delivery and freight charges usually follow the goods. Bill shipping with a taxable item and it carries the same GST/HST rate; ship zero-rated goods such as basic groceries and the freight is not taxed either. In British Columbia, delivery charges tied to a sale of taxable goods form part of the PST base, so 7% applies to them as well. Freight bought on its own from a carrier follows separate place-of-supply rules.
Canada has no annual tax-free allowance of the kind the United Kingdom applies to capital gains. What you get instead is the basic personal amount, a credit that shelters a first band of income each year, plus targeted reliefs: the principal residence exemption on a qualifying home and the lifetime capital gains exemption on qualifying small business shares or farm and fishing property. Only half of a capital gain is taxable for 2025 and 2026, with no separate yearly allowance.
Some services only. BC's 7% PST reaches legal services, telecommunication services, accommodation, and work performed on goods such as repair, maintenance and installation. Many other services, including most professional and consulting fees, fall outside PST, though the 5% GST still applies to them. Because the list is specific rather than general, check the province's PST bulletin for your line of work before you register, charge tax or price a quote.
Match what is withheld to what you will owe. Ask your employer to deduct extra tax if you have a second job, a pension, or investment income with nothing taken off, and review the credits you claimed on the personal tax credits return you filed with them. Self-employed people should set money aside each month and pay instalments when the CRA asks. RRSP contributions made before the annual contribution deadline early in the next year also cut the balance.
Deductions begin with your first pay. Your employer withholds income tax once pay for the period exceeds the credits you claimed on the federal and provincial claim forms you completed when hired; the federal basic personal amount for 2026 is $16,452, tapering to $14,829 at higher net income, spread across the year. CPP and EI come off separately from the start: CPP 5.95% in 2026 with a $3,500 basic exemption, EI $1.63 per $100 of insurable earnings.
Line 101 reports your total sales and other revenue for the reporting period, before tax. Include taxable, zero-rated and exempt sales, and revenue from supplies made outside Canada, using the same accounting basis as your books. Leave out the GST/HST you charged, and leave out provincial sales tax. The figure itself does not create tax; what you remit comes from the collected-tax and input-tax-credit lines further down the return.
It goes to the person primarily responsible for the child's day-to-day care. Where care is shared roughly equally, the CRA splits it, so each parent receives half of what they would get alone, calculated on their own family net income. Tell the CRA when your marital status changes, because a stale status distorts both payments. Where the child lives mainly with one parent, only that parent is treated as the primary carer.
The CRA applies its prescribed arrears rate, which is reset every calendar quarter from the yield on three-month Government of Canada treasury bills and compounds daily on the unpaid balance. Because it resets quarterly, the rate applying to your debt depends on when the balance was outstanding, so take the figure from the CRA's prescribed interest rates page for each quarter. Interest also accrues on penalties, and it is not deductible on a personal return.
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. He is Big 4 trained, at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia. In 2014 he founded his accounting practice 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.
Sources. CRA — Businesses · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)
