[GNC] Canadian Sales Tax Questions and/or "Canadian Version" of GnuCash

[Christopher Lam]

Your HST seems very similar to UK VAT or GST in use in many other
countries. You may use Tax Tables to set them up. And search the
documentation & wiki on how to report the HST on Sales and Purchases and
their quarterly differences.

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 18:57, Patrick Farrell <tegwaan at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Is there a "Canadian Version" of GnuCash as all the documentation in the
> current version of GnuCash 3.4+ (Build 2018-12-30) that I have read
> relates to the USA Tax System?
>
> I immediately need to know how to set up automatically calculating how
> to add Canadian Harmonized Sales Tax ("HST") @ 13% to any Invoices I
> make up and send out to Clients/Customers, and then how to separately
> account for HST that I pay on any invoices that I receive from our
> vendors and subsequently pay. I then need to offset the HST received
> from Client/Customers versus the HST I have paid out to Vendors and do
> an official Government HST filing at least Quarterly, and pay them the
> difference if any!
>
> Is there an "Update" software function in the program somewhere, as I
> have not been able to see any obvious place to do this? I see there is
> GnuCash 3.9 version offered on the website, but will I lose all existing
> data in my existing GnuCash 3.4+ if I download 3.9 on top of it or have
> to delete 3.4+ before I install version 3.9?
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
>
> P at ddy
>
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