Canadian buyer with Ireland address

[dipmicro]

Checks-out with Ireland address then in eBay message asks for sending it to Ontario address.

Not only it takes me 10minutes to update the sales record, but he also circumvented the Ontario taxes saving a whooping $0.40. I don't mean to whine here for $0.40, but it's always a major pain when people request address change after the sale.

I wish eBay had a policy against this behavior with same severity as UPI.

[westernstargifts]

Was the shipping cost more to send to Ireland? You could always refund the difference in shipping less the sales tax and, of course, explain this to him.

Isn't it amazing what a person will do to save a few pennies?

[surplusdealdude]

Well, I just had a guy buy 2 things and ask for "speedy delivery".

He's in Greece.

Good luck, Chuck!

[fatdane]

If the customer wants an item sent to Ontario, and you as a seller are registered for PST and/or GST/HST then tax is due no matter where the buyer is located

[craftycatsattic]

If the customer wants an item sent to Ontario, and you as a seller are registered for PST and/or GST/HST then tax is due no matter where the buyer is located

True but tax is due to the federal government. dipmicro can request the buyer pay extra but is not required to do so as long as he remits tax on the sale.

westernstargifts has a very good point though. If there was no address change before the sale, then the buyer paid for shipping to Ireland which may very well come to more than shipping to Ontario (funny how I cannot absolutely say so due to the lack of a comparable small packet shipping service within Canada!). Then he just has to refund the difference.

[dipmicro]

This particular sale total to Ireland is $0.40 cheaper than to Ontario, it's just regular letter shipping and since we send international letters from USA for $0.98 my S/H on that particular item is only $0.50 more than Canadian. I looked at buyers feedback left and items he bought and he does not look like a bottom feeder at all, I give him benefit of the doubt and consider this honest mistake. People move around.

Now to my taxes - the government gets paid properly regardless if we collect or not, because when we calculate sales tax, it goes like this:

Filter all the sales to Canada within time period. Calculate total and multiply by 5%.

Filter all the sales to Ontario within time period. Calculate total and multiply by 8%.

We subtract all cancelled and refunded sales of course.

Spreadsheets and filters are great 😉 Filing PST for 6 months and thousands records takes about 15 minutes.

I even cheated myself last time, because I forgot to subtract one sale with PEC we had, when I found out it was not worth ammending, so I just informed customer they were free to claim PST refund on that sale since we did not apply their PEC and paid PST from it.

[dipmicro]

I just reread my own post above, of course we consider HST provinces, I just simplified steps involved in calculation.

[craftycatsattic]

I do the same thing...but I was told by a Revenue Quebec agent that I also have to remit PST on the shipping portion since I am claiming PST on shipping as an input tax credit...wondering if I received the proper input now!

[dipmicro]

How do you claim PST on shipping when CanadaPost is not charging PST ... yet ? Perhaps in QC they do, but in ON they do not. This is going to change soon anyway, we will pay full HST to CanadaPost pretty soon.

We remit sales tax from goods sales totals, not subtotals.

Off topic. I am getting fed-up with OpenOffice Calc. Since I use spreadsheet for many tasks, I would like to acquire Microsoft once again, remember Excel was pretty swift, and I do not mind Office XP or 2003. I see some sellers here on eBay selling it for $30-$40, but some of their feedback says "fake". Anyone has old copy in their drawer they do not need? It has to be retail boxed version, OEM's that came with computers are not transferable.

[craftycatsattic]

How do you claim PST on shipping when CanadaPost is not charging PST ... yet ? Perhaps in QC they do, but in ON they do not.

In Quebec they do. I pay GST and PST on any shipping within Canada. Everything else is exempt if I have $5 or more worth of postage. I'm still thinking I should look into this further though because the logic of the person I spoke to does not work. If I buy my goods in Quebec and pay PST and GST on them, that does not mean I have to pass on the PST to my out of province customers, so why is postage any different?

[femmefan1946]

Because , although your buyer is paying you for shipping to him, you are buying a service from Canada Post for your own purposes.

If there is a problem, it would be you who claims the insurance, not the buyer.

Your purchase, your tax. The service is not resellable.

I am not clear why the provincial part of the HST would apply to the service of shipping. Even if you bought postage stamps, those are "really" a receipt for a service not yet performed, which is why they are cancelled when the service is performed.