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Showing taxes collected for each government jurisdiction needed NOT total

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    Alex Danny
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    On setting up this POS plugin, we just purchased via Code Canyon, finding how to setup the Receipt printout became an issue.

    The receipt example does use the preset table Woo Commerce has (i.e. see ISSUE-CustomerTaxOptopnsNOTUsed-2025-06-14-14_37_54.jpg) to calculate taxes correctly.
    • these entries in the Woo Commerce Tax do work and show correctly in the none POS output as sales complete generated by Woo Commerce
    (i.e. see ISSUE-taxes-selection-uncontroled-Screenshot 2025-06-14 at 14-42-17 Cart.jpg)
    • they print booth the PST and GST taxes fro Woo Commerce but when the POS Receipt is printed, how do we get the same appropriate taxes to show on the receipt
    (i.e. instead of just the Total as seen on webPOSReceipts20250623.jpg)

    Receipts in Canada (based on how taxes work across the provinces and cites) require that each tax shows, if collected, as revenue.
    • attached is a scan of a random set of receipts from restaurants, gas, product and alcohol purchase to help you visualize.
    (i.e. see CanadianTaxExamples.jpg )
    • PST (Provincial Sales Tax is collected by provincial governments) applies to all purchases except when the purchaser is exempt.
    – businesses are given a Provincial Sales Tax Number that exempts them from paying that is typically stored with the Customer Account info
    – indigenous (i.e. native Canadians) are typically exempt)
    – the amount of PST collected needs to show on the receipt as that is to be paid out to the provincial government
    • GST (Government Sales Tax is collected by the Federal Government)
    – every business can claim back the total GST it pays while non business purchases just pay.
    – to claim back the amount of GST paid it needs to explicitly show on the sales receipt
    – the receipt also needs to show the GST number of the company who collected the GST (the tax audits cross reference using it)
    – the amount of GST needs to show on the Receipt because that is to be paid out to the federal government AND so the purchaser is able to get that refund
    • HST in some provinces the PST and GST is combined into one tax called the HST – there the 2 taxes are divided by the government
    – provinces have gone back and forth between using HST and GST plus PST, so the receipt should say HST not Tax and to allow for cross provincial border purchases.
    • there are other types of additional taxes in Canada such as Liquor and Environment Pollution taxes (see the CanadianTaxExamples.jpg for examples)
    – this is not yet a concern we face and am only mentioning it for your info as food service companies are facing more of them, in cities like Toronto & Vancouver.

    How to we edit the receipt to show both the PST and GST component of the taxes instead of just the total taxes ?

    • As you will also notice all receipts are required to show the sellers GST or HST number.
    • While adding it to the last line of the address is possible the custom is to have it at the bottom of the receipt, in an effort to work with government auditors.

    How do we add a line on the receipt that reflects the GST number that taxes are being collected by for the federal government ?

    Thanks
    Alex

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