This page provides addtional resources of interest on major topics about the HST.
Consult with your accounting, legal, tax professional in determining your best means for applying HST
resources in your business and/or transaction activities that you are unsure of.

Ministry of Finance
HST Website    Transitional Rules (Hotel Room Tax)
Toolkit for Tax Professionals Transitional Rules (Point of Sale)
HST presentation Transitional Rules (Residential Housing)*
Transitional Rules (General) HST inovicing requirements
Transtitional Rules (PST) Additional documentation
* including new home build purchase rebates
 
Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA)
Harmonized Sales Tax for British Columbia Transitional Rules
Frequently Asked Questions about the HST Online Seminars about the HST
GST /HST information sheets  
   
Tax Software updates
The following provides access to the more common accounting software used in home based, small to
medium business. These resources are provided for convenience only. None of the products listed indicate endorsement nor implied suitability for your business application. Consult with your accounting professional and/or the software's help/support before undertaking upgrades to your accounting software system.

Always backup your accounting system with secure storage before commencing upgrades.
Quickbooks ESILAW (for law firms)
Simply Accounting  
   
Tax Professional Inquiries
Canada Revenue Agency - Technical Questions: 1-800-959-5525
Ministry of Finance: 1-877-388-4440


The HST will be administered by the Canada Revenue Agency, not the Province of British Columbia. For enquiries related to the transition to HST, please visit CRA’s dedicated HST web pages.

Please direct telephone enquiries to CRA as follows:

Enquiries on the following topics should be referred to the CRA’s General Business enquiries telephone lines at 1-800-959-5525 (English) or 1-800-959-7775 (French):

Application of the HST, including

How the HST applies to goods and services,

How the HST applies to items designated for point-of-sale rebates (motor fuels, children’s sized clothing and footwear, children’s car seats and car booster seats, children’s diapers and feminine hygiene products);

the application of the HST under the general transitional rules;

the application of the HST to interprovincial/interjurisdictional sales of goods and services; and

HST registration and remittance/filing requirements.

Enquiries related to the following topics should be referred to the CRA’s technical GST/HST enquiries telephone line at 1-800-959-8287 (English) or 1-800-959-8296 (French):

Eligibility for and the process for claiming HST rebates for public sector bodies (municipalities, universities, public colleges, school authorities, hospital authorities, registered charities and qualifying non-profit organizations);

The temporary input tax credit restriction for large businesses; and

Questions concerning real property, including the following;

Transitional rules for residential real property;

Eligibility for and the process for claiming HST new housing rebates and HST new rental housing rebates

For all other questions, including questions related to the wind-down of the provincial sales tax and provincial hotel room tax, the provincially administered credit for residential energy and the tax on the private sales of vehicles, boats and aircraft, please contact the Province at:

Vancouver 604 660-4524
Toll-free elsewhere in BC 1 877 388-4440
Or e-mail CTBTaxQuestions@gov.bc.ca

   

 

 

 



 
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