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When you charge and collect tax on sales, you will remit 60% and keep 40% of the amount collected. And although you will only be claim ITCs on certain items (know the rules), you will be eligible for the PSB rebate, meaning you will receive a rebate for 50% of the GST or federal part of the HST paid on purchases.
I'm in a GST only province, so I'm going to set this up with the 5% GST in mind. You can easily modify this to work in different provinces by adjusting the percentages. Here’s how to set this up. We’re going to add two new tax rates, then a new tax group.
When you charge and collect tax on sales, you will remit 60% and keep 40% of the amount collected. And although you will only be claim ITCs on certain items (know the rules), you will be eligible for the PSB rebate, meaning you will receive a rebate for 50% of the GST or federal part of the HST paid on purchases.
The CRA has issued a news release for those people affected by the recent fires in Alberta. I called the CRA this afternoon to get a bit more information for one of my customers who has lost her home in Fort McMurray. I found out that the CRA has set up a Fort McMurray help… Continue reading CRA info for businesses and individuals affected by the Fort McMurray and north-east fires
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is now WAY out of date. Intuit has made many improvements to the sales tax centre. Check back soon for information about a new sales tax course I will be releasing in February 2020! If you're just getting starting using QuickBooks Online (QBO), here are a few things to know about… Continue reading The top 10 things you need to know about QuickBooks Online and GST/HST
ISSUE: the journal entry that QuickBooks automatically creates when filing sales tax is not entered correctly. The most common problem is missing tax items. You may also see missing information on the memo line, and you may even see the tax items switched around. This happened to one of my clients this week. He noticed an… Continue reading Why is my previous QuickBooks GST/HST ‘File Sales Tax’ journal entry incorrect?
The R6 update for QuickBooks 2013 is now available for Canadian versions of QuickBooks. If you've selected the option for AUTOMATIC UPDATE*, you should be prompted to install the update when you open the program. If not, you can go to HELP > UPDATE QUICKBOOKS > UPDATE NOW and select GET UPDATES. The other option… Continue reading Holy Colour, Batman! QuickBooks 2013 R6 update released in Canada
When you use the FILE SALES TAX feature of QuickBooks and your from and to dates don't coincide with your actual filing dates, you haven't indicated the correct date range. It's fairly simple to manually change the date range for the period that you're filing, but you can set this up so that the correct date… Continue reading How do I get the correct date range to show when “Filing Sales Tax?”
Great question. And it has a very simple solution! Go to Enter Bills > Select Vendor > Fill out top portion as usual > Choose expense account (I use the one associated with the original transaction) and use G for tax code > Enter $0 for the amount > Enter the amount of the GST… Continue reading I received a bill for GST only. How do I enter it?
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