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There is no way around the opening fact, so it may as well come first. British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba run their own sales taxes alongside GST, filed separately, and unlike GST they are generally not recoverable as input credits. Businesses expanding into a PST province routinely register late, and the province assesses from the date the obligation started, not the date of registration.
There is a companion rule that changes how the first one plays out in practice: Registration becomes mandatory once taxable supplies exceed $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters, and the obligation starts before the paperwork does — tax is owed from the day the threshold is crossed. On the record-keeping side, one rule governs what must be kept and what must be shown: Place-of-supply rules decide the rate: for most services it follows the customer’s address on file, so a supplier in a 5% GST province can owe 15% HST on a sale to Atlantic Canada.
In practice, this is why gst/hst objection rewards a tax advisor rather than a generic preparer: each of these points is a judgement call before it is a keystroke. Every gst/hst objection file rests on documentation, so start by collecting.
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Scaling exposed a commercial property purchase closed on the assumption no tax applied because the vendor was not registered at a residential landlord also renting commercial space in Toronto, Ontario. The back office was rebuilt to match, freeing $132,000.
A 6-week rebuild at a restaurant group in Burnaby, British Columbia got the filing in with 15 days to spare, avoiding $43,000 in penalties.
A family transfer at a SaaS company with Canadian and US customers in Calgary, Alberta would have been fully taxable because of no valuation on file to support the price the parties had agreed. Restructuring deferred $500,000.
A second opinion for a health clinic making exempt supplies in Brampton, Ontario found a sales tax account filed annually while the CRA had moved the business to quarterly in prior filings and recovered $36,000 a year.
A $62,000 reassessment landed at a manufacturer exporting to the US in Vancouver, British Columbia, resting on nil periods left unfiled, which held up the refund on the one period that mattered. The objection was allowed in full.
An incentive review at a marketing agency billing outside its home province in Regina, Saskatchewan found a registration threshold crossed nine months before anyone registered and recovered $101,000 across 4 open years.
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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.
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Closely related registrants can elect under section 156 to treat supplies between them as made for nil consideration, but the election has to be filed with the CRA rather than signed and left in the minute book. An unfiled election means the inter-company charges were taxable all along. That is the part most owners have not heard before they sit down with us, and it usually changes what they do next.
We get this one a lot, and the answer is more concrete than people expect. 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. Bring your documents and we will show you where it lands in your numbers.
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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.
Sales tax in Ontario is 13% HST for 2026, made up of the 5% federal GST and an 8% provincial share, and it has applied at that rate since 1 July 2010. There is no separate Ontario retail sales tax on top, and the CRA administers the whole 13%. Basic groceries and prescription drugs are zero-rated, so they carry nothing. Income tax is a separate calculation with its own federal and Ontario brackets.
Divide the total by one plus the tax rate, then subtract that result from the total to get the tax. In Ontario at 13% HST divide by 1.13; in Nova Scotia at 14% from 1 April 2025 divide by 1.14; where only 5% GST applies divide by 1.05. Quebec is layered, because QST of 9.975% applies to the pre-GST price, giving a combined 14.975%, so divide by 1.14975 to reach the pre-tax amount.
Multiply the pre-tax price by the rate that applies where the sale happens. In Ontario that is 13% HST for 2026; in Alberta 5% GST; in British Columbia 5% GST plus 7% PST, each applied to the same base. Quebec is the exception, where 9.975% QST is charged on the pre-GST price, giving 14.975% combined. To back the tax out of a tax-included price, divide by one plus the rate.
Most people say tax preparer or accountant. In Canada the work is not reserved to a single title: preparers, bookkeepers, accountants and tax agents all prepare and file returns, and anyone filing more than a set number of returns for payment must use an electronic filer number from the CRA. Some designations are protected titles, so check what a person actually holds. Ask who reviews the return, how the fee is set, and whether CRA follow-up is included.
A Canadian business can face corporate income tax federally and provincially, GST/HST or provincial sales tax on what it sells, payroll withholding with employer CPP and EI, property tax on premises it owns, and payroll or health levies in some provinces. An unincorporated business reports its profit on a T2125 with the owner's T1 instead of paying corporate tax. Which ones apply depends on structure, where you operate, and whether you have employees.
Tax benefits come in two forms. Deductions and credits reduce what you owe on the return itself, including RRSP contributions, childcare, tuition, medical expenses and donations. Benefit payments are separate cash amounts the CRA pays based on that return, such as the Canada Child Benefit, the GST/HST credit and provincial supplements. Both require a filed return, and most benefit payments require each spouse to file. Miss a year and payments usually stop until the return arrives.
Multiply the pre-tax price by the rate for the province where the customer receives the goods or service, then add that to the price. Ontario is 13%; New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island are 15%; Nova Scotia is 14% from 1 April 2025. So a $100 Ontario sale is billed at $113. Show the tax separately with your registration number so a registered customer can claim it back.
Corporate income tax is tax a corporation pays on its own profit, separate from the tax its owners pay on the wages or dividends they take out. For 2026 the federal rate is 9% on the first $500,000 of active business income for a small Canadian-controlled private corporation and 15% on income above that, with each province adding its own rate; Ontario's combined general rate is 26.5%. It is reported on a T2 return.
Instalments are prepayments toward the current year's tax, not next year's. The CRA asks for them when too little tax is withheld at source and your net tax owing passes a set amount in the current year and in one of the two previous years, which is common for self-employed people, landlords, investors and pensioners. Reminders arrive with suggested amounts, or you can pay on your own estimate. Underpaying attracts instalment interest, so follow the reminder if unsure.
Choose the payee that matches the type of payment, not simply the one named Canada Revenue Agency: personal income tax, personal instalments, an amount owing from a prior year, GST/HST, payroll source deductions and corporate tax each have a separate payee in bank menus. The wrong payee sends the money to the wrong program account and takes a phone call to move. Confirm the tax year or period, and keep the confirmation number.
Very few businesses are exempt from income tax. Registered charities and most non-profit organisations are exempt on their own activities but still file annually, and business income can cost a non-profit that treatment. Sales tax turns on the supply, not the supplier, and a small supplier need not register. For 2026 that means worldwide taxable revenue, including that of associated persons, of $30,000 or less both across the four most recent consecutive calendar quarters and within any single quarter, because crossing it in one quarter ends that status immediately.
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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
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