Canadian businesses pay two different tax rates: PST and GST/HST. Set this up in Dext Prepare so that we can extract both tax rates from your Costs.
How to set up Canadian secondary taxes for:
- Go to the ‘Profile’ section of the menu and click on ‘Account Details’ page and turn on ‘Extract secondary tax’. This setting will only appear if:
- Your ‘Base Currency’ is set to Canada Dollars
- Your ‘Account Country’ is set to Canada
- Your account is integrated with QuickBooks Online
![CADtax.jpeg](https://help.dext.com/assets/images/0EM4G000001fAlw.jpg)
- Go to the ‘Connections’ section of the menu and click on ‘Integrations’. Choose a default tax rate for each of the following settings:
- Default tax rate
- GSTS/HST/TPS tax rate
- PST/QST/TVQ tax rate
- Default exempt tax rate
The dropdown list of tax rates is pulled from your QuickBooks Online account.
![CADtaxtax2.jpeg](https://help.dext.com/assets/images/0EM4G000001fAm1.jpg)
You’ll see fields for each of the tax rates when you’re viewing your purchases.
![CADtaxtaxtax.png](https://help.dext.com/assets/images/0EM4G000001fRNs.jpg)
When you publish this bill to QuickBooks Online, the default tax rates that you selected on the ‘Integrations’ page will be noted as the two tax values.
![CAD Dual Tax 3.png](https://help.dext.com/assets/images/0EM4G000001fAm6.jpg)
Note:
- If you purchase from vendors in more than one province, you’ll need to record the difference in PST values using our line item feature
- If your document includes GST, PST and tax-free purchases, you’ll need to record the tax-free part of your purchase using our line item feature
- If your document includes another tax rate (such as liquor tax) in addition to GST and PST, you’ll need to record additional tax rate using our line item feature