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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador HST on business expenses

Keep the HST and supplier details with every Newfoundland and Labrador business receipt. Smartbills gives your team the record behind each input tax credit, including shipped purchases.

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Smartbills takes the tax from each line of every invoice and receipt as charged, deliveries from mainland suppliers included.

Newfoundland and Labrador HST read from the receipt, line by line

Some lines on a Newfoundland and Labrador receipt carry 15%, some carry only the 5% federal part, and some carry nothing at all. Smartbills keeps the tax each line was actually charged, with the supplier's HST number. The input tax credit matches the receipt instead of a rate applied to the total.

  • Tax kept per line, as the merchant charged it
  • Books and other rebated items counted at 5%
  • Supplier HST number kept with the receipt

Goods shipped in carry the province's HST

Much of what a business here buys is ordered online and shipped in. HST follows the delivery: goods delivered in Newfoundland and Labrador carry its 15% HST, wherever the seller is in Canada. Smartbills reads the tax each invoice actually charged and flags a shipped order taxed at another province's rate.

  • HST charged where the goods are delivered
  • Online orders read from the emailed invoice
  • Wrong-rate invoices flagged for the supplier

Why teams switch

The tax is on the receipt, not the card statement.

We claim HST as 15% of every total, and we know that's not what the receipts say.

The tax comes from each line of the receipt. Rebated, zero-rated and exempt items are counted as they were charged.

Once a purchase is over $100, the CRA wants the supplier's HST number, and it's never on the card statement.

The registration number comes with the receipt when the merchant prints it. The documentation is on file before anyone asks.

Most of our supplies are shipped in, and some invoices come taxed at another province's rate.

The tax on each invoice is read as charged, and a rate that doesn't match the delivery address is flagged.

Before and after

What changes on a Newfoundland and Labrador receipt.

Applying 15% to every total treats exempt and rebated lines as taxed. The receipt says which lines really were.

Card statement and photos compared with With Smartbills
CapabilityCard statement and photosWith Smartbills
HST on the purchase15% of the totalThe tax each line was charged
Rebated and zero-rated itemsTaxed at 15% anywayCounted as charged
Supplier HST numberOnly if someone kept the paperKept with the receipt
Getting receipts inPhotos at month endFrom the merchant or the mailbox

Integrations

Works with the tools you already use.

Your accounting software, bank feeds and card program, with data syncing in both directions.

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  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • Sage
  • FreshBooks
  • Wave
  • MYOB
  • Zoho Books
  • NetSuite
  • SAP
  • Oracle
  • Dynamics 365
  • Square
  • Shopify
  • Clover
  • Toast
  • Lightspeed
  • WooCommerce
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Adyen
  • Wise
  • Plaid
  • Chase
  • Bank of America
  • Wells Fargo
  • RBC
  • TD
  • BMO
  • Scotiabank
  • Desjardins
  • Brex
  • Ramp
  • Float
  • Mercury
  • Gusto
  • ADP
  • Deel
  • Rippling
  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
  • OneDrive
  • Box
  • Gmail
  • Outlook
  • Google Analytics
  • Snowflake
  • Looker
  • Databricks
  • Google Cloud
  • Metabase
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Notion
  • Zapier
  • Airtable
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

15%, made up of the 5% federal part and a 10% provincial part. Registered businesses claim it back as an input tax credit on their return to the CRA.

Newfoundland and Labrador rebates its provincial part at the point of sale on printed books. Those lines carry only 5%. Prescription drugs and basic groceries are zero-rated and carry no tax. Children's clothing carries the full 15%.

Yes. Goods delivered in Newfoundland and Labrador carry the province's 15% HST, wherever the seller is in Canada.

Register for a GST/HST account with the Canada Revenue Agency, online, by phone or by mail. It becomes mandatory once taxable sales pass $30,000 in a single quarter or over four consecutive quarters.

Get started

Try it on a month of Newfoundland and Labrador receipts.

Connect a mailbox and a card. Each purchase comes in with the HST it was charged, line by line.