Stripe powers payments and billing for a huge share of online and SaaS businesses, and Stripe Tax can calculate Canadian sales tax at checkout. But calculating tax isn’t the same as being compliant — Stripe won’t register your business, and in Canada it won’t file and remit your
Every sale you make lands in one of three buckets — taxable, zero-rated, or exempt — and the bucket decides whether you charge tax and whether you recover it on your costs. This is the master map; the category guides below go deeper. The three buckets in one table Bucket You
Québec runs the most independent sales tax in Canada: its own 9.975% rate, its own administrator, its own registration regimes, even its own language considerations. This is the full QST picture in one place — the hub our other Québec guides hang from. QST in the Canadian system QST applies
Before the 2021 digital rules existed, this phrase was the whole game — and for goods sellers it still is. Whether a non-resident is “carrying on business in Canada” decides whether the traditional registration rules apply. It's a factor test, not a bright line. Here's how
Selling to Canadian customers is a natural next step for many US businesses — and a common way to stumble into tax obligations you didn’t know you had. This guide explains, in plain English, when US sellers have to register for Canadian sales tax, how the federal and provincial systems