Tax setup for Canada

[9DollarDomains]

I'll also bump this again. Especially where we are located, it's simply 5% GST and 5% PST on virtually all services, so pretty simple.

 

My concern is that the next time some Hosting Company using WHMCS is audited, Canada Revenue Agency will rule that WHMCS isn't allowed to be used in Canada anymore, since it really can't track the taxes properly.

 

Of course, for me, Multi-currency is a more urgent feature.

[KayoteX]

Multi-currency - is not so urgent

You can use exchange service script + api

 

TAXes - what we need ASAP!

[9DollarDomains]

Well, I don't want to hijack a thread - but we really need BOTH Multi-currency and multi-tax. The fact is, I need to charge my local Canadian customer in CAD$ or they'd be insulted - and USA customer's are going to want to pay in US$ for sure, and I want to do it in one installation, rather than using two separate installs like I do now. I don't mind paying two licenses (and would continue to do so to get multi-currency) but managing two separate installations is a major PITA! However, this is a tax thread, and yes - we need two taxes.

[Sparkle]

no update for support of 2 taxes yet ?

 

Thanks.

[9DollarDomains]

The Release Notes say it's been implemented in 3.70

http://dev.whmcs.com/index.php?version=17

[demodemo]

The Release Notes say it's been implemented in 3.70

http://dev.whmcs.com/index.php?version=17

Any idea on when 3.7.0 will be available?

 

Vito

[KayoteX]

3.7.1 already released

[demodemo]

Thanks, KayoteX.

 

After upgrading, I created a Level 2 rule, and it all displays perfectly when an order is placed...except for one thing. In the invoice, it just says:

 

5% tax -

8% tax -

 

It doesn't display the names of the taxes (GST, PST), even though I entered the tax names when creating the tax rules. Any way to edit this so that the tax names show up in the invoice for better clarification?

 

Vito

[KayoteX]

Did you update your templates?

I haven't tried it yet, since still fighting with my custom template

A lot of new cool features added and something changed too, so i need to check all before

[demodemo]

Actually, I have not edited my WHMCS installation at all so no template updating needed.

 

Vito

[v3mediaworks]

This never did really get resolved for us in Canada, did it?

 

And what a mess we have in BC for the next few months...

 

As is stands, right now for a hosting company in BC:

 

1) everyone in Canada gets charged 5% GST on all products

2) everyone in BC gets charged 7% PST on some products but not all

3) as of May 1st, everyone who buys annual service in an HST province gets charged 12% HST on the amount used after July 1st and 5% GST on the amount used before July 1st. On PSTable items, same rule applies with the extra 7% only on the amount used before July1st.

4) After July1st, some provinces will be charge 12% HST and some only 5% GST

 

Up until July 1st, we have to:

a) break out the PST and GST separately on each invoice (by law)

b) be able to charge GST only on non-PSTable items (web hosting without email, web design, domain registration) and PST and GST on other items.

 

Since each item is either Tax on or Tax off, this isn't doable? Is it?

[ethical]

its a mess really. and no i dont see how you would do it with this system which is why I am not going to. Its rediculous to expect us small businesses to adjust out billing system in such an absurd way in my opinion. We dont have the manpower, time or money to make such fancy changes to our systems for such a short period of time.