Create an endpoint for special cases

[jpmurray]

Quick example:

• return type of goods/services that are exempted for a rate;
• return type of goods/services that have special extra rates (ex.: Manitoba has a 5% tax on hotel room fees)

[moga111]

Hello @jpmurray

Thanks for the API. can you please add support for

• Retail Sales Tax
• Quebec Sales Tax

Cheers

[jpmurray]

@moga111 You can get provincial rates with the province endpoint by calling it like so : https://api.salestaxapi.ca/v2/province/qc.

I'm not sure I get what you mean by retail sales tax though? Anything missing from the endpoints in the documentation?

[moga111]

@jpmurray The api provides great info regarding the pst, hst, and gst, but for QC case for example, they have qst, MB they have rst.

Here is a link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_Canada#Provincial_sales_taxes

Thanks!

[jpmurray]

@moga111 yes, but it's only a matter of terminology. If you call /v2/province/qc, you get:

{
  "start": "2013-01-01 00:00:00",
  "type": "gst,pst",
  "pst": 0.09975,
  "hst": 0,
  "gst": 0.05,
  "applicable": 0.14975,
  "source": "Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_Canada), accessed May 31 2019.",
  "updated_at": "2019-06-01 14:39:07",
  "incoming_changes": false
}

In this cast, pst is the effective provincial tax for quebec, which is called qst. I chose to call the provincial taxes pst everywhere in the API results so I don't get lost in different terminology. Same would go for Manitoba, if you take the RST, it is a provincial tax (PST), they just name it differently.

[moga111]

@jpmurray Thanks for the reply and sorry for not following up early.
Yes that clarifies it, and thanks again for the API

[jpmurray]

@moga111 Sure thing!