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Provincial Sales Tax Calculation for Saskatchewan - Hardcode

Learn how Bravo calculates Provincial Sales Tax (PST) for Saskatchewan using a hardcoded tax method.

Provincial Sales Tax Calculation for Saskatchewan (SK) - Hardcode

Purpose:

Support calculation of PST (Provincial Sales Tax) and GST (Good and Services Tax) for tax authority in SK province. PST applies only to the sale amount of items which exceeds $300.00.

 

Requirements:

Make this change only for SK province. For other Canada provinces where PST is currently used, continue with hardcoding of GST/PST and receipt-only display.

For each sale item on the transaction, GST of 5.0% applies to the entire sale price, but PST only applies to the sale amount which exceeds $300.00.

Percentage of GST and PST is still determined by hardcoding of GST to 5.0% when tax authority located in SK (Saskatchewan) province. PST is calculated as the remainder of configured Sales Tax (Tax % - 5.0%).

Example #1 – Sale with two items –Item 1 for $800.00 and Item 2 for $150.00. In this example, configured Sales Tax would be 11.0%, so PST would be 11.0% - 5.0% = 6.0%.

  • GST = 5.0% * ($800.00 + $150.00) = $47.50 tax
  • PST = 6.0% * (($800.00 - $300.00) + ($150.00 - $150.00)) = $30.00 tax
  • PST applies only to $500.00 amount of item 1 ($800.00 - $300.00)
  • PST doesn’t apply at all to item 2 because its sale price is less than $300.01

Example #2 – Three items, each sold for $300.20

  • GST = 5.0% * ($300.20 * 3) = $15.01 * 3 = $45.03
  • PST = 6.0% * (($300.20 * 3) - ($300.00 * 3)) = 6.0% * $0.60 = $0.04 (rounded up from $0.036)
  • NOTE:  PST calculated and rounded on the sum of sales minus sum of deductions. Calculating on the sum of rounded taxes for each individual item would be incorrect.
    • 6.0% * ($300.20 - $300.00) = $0.01 (rounded down from $0.012), so summing this for the three items would be $0.03, which is not correct.

Example #3 –Three items, sold for $100.00, $150.00, and $300.00

  • GST = 5.0% * ($100.00 + $150.00 + $300.00) = $27.50
  • PST = 6.0% * (($100.00 - $100.00) + ($150.00 - $150.00) + ($300.00 - $300.00)) = $0.00

The $300.00 deduction typically applies to individual items. In the case of a group of items, the $300.00 deduction applies to the group as a whole. In Bravo, this would require the user to combine the items and sell them as a single sale item. In the case of a SKU sale with multiple SKU items, each item would be counted individually. This means the $300.00 deduction would apply to each individual SKU item sale.

The $300.00 PST deduction doesn’t apply to vehicles. Exclude items from the deduction if they are categorized under the “Vehicles” category, except for items categorized under:

  • Canoes & Kayaks
  • Vehicle Parts and Accessories

Top section of the Sales Accounting Report needs to exclude the PST amount in the Total Sales. The Total Sales column on the top will be the same as the Total of the Sales column on the bottom section.