Tax registration number

Requirement

All countries that have Goods and Services Tax (GST) as an indirect tax method require a GST registration number. It is often the organization number with an addition of the country or a state or province code.

In Canada, GST is a value added tax that is charged and reclaimable across the country. In addition, additional indirect sales taxes (PST, RST, or QST) are levied in most of the individual Canadian provinces.

In certain provinces, a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is levied. This tax is a combination of GST and PST in one tax rate.

All companies registered in Canada have a unique company number of up to 15 characters. This number is named Business Registration Number (BN), or Numéro d’entreprise (NE) in the Québec province, which identifies the legal entity.

M3 solution

The company’s organization number and the tax and GST or PST registration numbers are stored on the division. The GST and PST numbers for the company’s customers and suppliers are stored in their respective master records.

Configuration guidelines

Program ID	Program name	Description or comment
MNS100/G	Company. Connect Division	Specify the tax registration number and the GST registration number of the entity.
CRS610/J	Customer. Open	Specify the GST registration number of the customer.
CRS620/E	Supplier. Open	Specify the GST registration number of the supplier.
CRS045	Country. Open	In the Chk dig mtd org field, set the validation method for the check digit of the tax registration number to 03. In the Chk dig mtd VAT field, set the validation method for the GST registration number to 03.
OIS002/F	Customer. Connect Addresses	Optionally, in the VAT reg no field, specify the GST registration number.