Indirect tax ebook - Canada

As businesses expand and reach into other markets, more and more goods and services are crossing borders. Canadian sales taxes are levied at both the federal and the provincial level. In Canada, they can affect every transaction your organization makes. In addition to sales taxes, other levies or taxes can be applied at the federal, provincial or municipal level.

Keeping track of the complex changes and developments in the Canadian sales taxes can be quite a challenge -- one that requires the skills of knowledgeable and experienced professionals. Successfully applying the skills to your business takes a deep understanding of your needs and of today’s business environment.

Our highly specialized Sales Tax team can assist national and international clients, both public and private, with their compliance and advisory needs. We work closely with sales and indirect tax colleagues in other countries and with the other tax services lines. Our team is committed to providing up-to-date advice and strategic planning with sound, practical solutions for our client’s day-to-day operations. Our full range of sales tax services across Canada includes the following:

• Advisory
• Ruling requests
• Strategic planning 
• Reorganizations
• Due diligence and transaction advisory services
• Recovery reviews
• Compliance reviews
• Registration and return or rebate preparation and other day to day compliance
• Audit defence, objections and appeals, and negotiating with tax authorities
  
  

Grant Thornton is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm providing audit, tax and advisory services to business sectors throughout Canada including: 

• Real Estate
• Travel and Transportation 
• Manufacturing and Distribution
• Software
• E-Commerce
• Mining, Oil and Gas
• Insurance
• Financial Services
• Health Care
• Public Sector Bodies
  
  

Grant Thornton together with the Quebec firm, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton have more than 3,100 people in offices across Canada. Our team of sales tax specialists are located in all of the major centres in Canada. For more information, please contact:

Cathy Kuhrt
Grant Thornton LLP
19th Floor, Royal Bank Plaza South Tower, 200 Bay Street, Toronto, ON, M5J 2P9
Telephone: 1-416-360-4986
FAX: 1-416-360-4949
E-Mail: ckuhrt@grantthornton.ca  

Maurice Arsenault
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
600 rue de la Gauchetière O, Montréal, QC, H3B 4L8
Telephone : 1-514-393-4817
FAX : 1-514-878-2127
E-Mail : arsenault.maurice@rcgt.com  


Cathy directs the Grant Thornton LLP’s sales tax practice in Ontario and oversees the firm’s National Sales Tax Practice. Maurice leads the sales tax practice for Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton in the province of Quebec. Together they are the lead contacts for our international sales tax consulting with our international and cross-border clients. 

 

• Introduction
• Scope
• Registration
• Tax rates
• Reporting & filing
• General tax application/Time of supply