Enter your annual sales, the sales tax rate you charge and your business type to see the Quick Method remittance, the 1% credit, and the slice of collected GST/HST you keep instead of claiming input tax credits. Remittance rates are current for the 2025 tax year, including Nova Scotia’s 14% HST.
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How it works. Under the Quick Method you still charge customers the full GST/HST, but you remit a lower flat rate applied to your tax-included sales instead of tracking input tax credits on most purchases. A 1% credit applies to the first $30,000 of eligible supplies each fiscal year. The spread between what you collect and what you remit is yours to keep.
You remit under the Quick Method
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8.8% remittance rate on $0 tax-included sales
The Quick Method is only available while annual worldwide taxable supplies, including GST/HST, stay at or under $400,000. Electing means giving up input tax credits on most operating purchases — ITCs on capital purchases such as equipment and vehicles can still be claimed.
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How the Quick Method trade works
Registered under the regular method, you remit the GST/HST you collect minus input tax credits on your purchases. The Quick Method replaces that bookkeeping with one flat remittance rate applied to your tax-included sales — 8.8% for an Ontario service business charging 13% HST, for example. Because the flat rate is set below the tax you collect, the difference stays in the business, and a 1% credit on the first $30,000 of supplies each fiscal year sweetens the first remittance.
The trade suits service businesses with low taxable costs — consultants, trades, freelancers — because they were not claiming many ITCs anyway. Eligibility caps out at $400,000 of annual worldwide taxable supplies including GST/HST, and you make the election with CRA (form GST74 or through your business account) by the due date of the return for the period you want it to start.
What this calculator does not cover
ITCs on capital purchases — equipment, vehicles, real property — remain claimable under the Quick Method and are not modelled here. Businesses in GST-plus-PST provinces have extra wrinkles (PST is never part of this calculation), and a business with heavy taxable expenses can easily be worse off electing, which only a side-by-side of real numbers settles. For that comparison, or to handle the election itself, see GST/HST and sales tax services, or add the tax to a price with the GST/HST calculator.
| Tax charged | Services | Goods for resale |
|---|---|---|
| 5% | 3.6% | 1.8% |
| 13% | 8.8% | 4.4% |
| 14% | 9.4% | 4.7% |
| 15% | 10% | 5% |
Rates assume at least 90% of supplies are made in the province where the business is located; the goods rates require resale goods to be at least 40% of taxable supplies.
Rates reviewed for the 2025 tax year by Udit Gupta, Founder and Tax Accountant. Federal and provincial rates change annually, and this tool is an estimate for planning rather than tax advice. Confirm current figures before relying on them for a filing.
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Rates and method reviewed by Udit Gupta
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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. 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)