Manitoba
Smartbills reads each tax from each receipt line, sending the GST to your claim and keeping the RST in the expense.
Manitoba RST and GST on separate lines
The GST at 5% and the RST at 7% stay as separate amounts on each receipt line. The input tax credit is built from the GST alone, and the RST is kept in the cost of what was bought.
- GST and RST kept apart on every line
- Exempt lines recorded with no tax
- Only the GST sent to the input tax credit
RST stays in the cost of the expense
Manitoba's 7% retail sales tax isn't recoverable, and treating it like GST overstates your input tax credits. Smartbills keeps the RST line apart, adds it to the cost of the expense and claims the 5% GST only.
- RST kept on its own line
- Added to the expense account, not claimed
- GST claimed as an input tax credit
Why teams switch
The tax is on the receipt, not the card statement.
We claim 12% of every total, and the RST was never ours to claim.
GST and RST come in as separate amounts. Only the GST reaches the input tax credit.
Our card statement doesn't say which purchases carried RST.
The tax comes from the receipt line by line. Exempt items and taxed items are recorded as they were charged.
Receipts pile up in the truck until the end of the month.
Receipts come from the merchant and the mailbox as purchases happen, matched to the card line.
Before and after
What changes on a Manitoba receipt.
12% of the total puts retail sales tax in the claim. RST is a cost, and the receipt already shows it separately.
| Capability | Card statement and photos | With Smartbills |
|---|---|---|
| GST and RST | 12% of the total | Two amounts, from the receipt |
| RST in the claim | Often claimed by mistake | Kept in the expense |
| Exempt items | Taxed anyway | Recorded as charged |
| Getting receipts in | Photos at month end | From 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.
- 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
The products that do the work.
Each product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Expense management
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
Expense reports
Expense report software that attaches the receipts for you, works out mileage, routes the approval and shows each employee when they'll be paid back.
Email receipt capture
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
Accounting automation
Accounting automation software that codes each transaction and posts the journal entry to your accounting software the day it happens.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us before they sign up.
Get started
Keep RST out of your Manitoba claims.
Connect a mailbox and a card. GST and RST come in as two amounts, and the RST stays in the expense.