SA Goods and Services Tax Setup overview

System Administrator > Setup > Goods and Services Tax

Function acronym: SASGG

Use this page to set up a tax master record for each Canadian province in which you conduct business and collect tax. SA Goods and Services Tax Setup is for Canadian companies only.

In SA Company Setup, you must have previously selected Goods and Services Tax (GST) as the Tax Method and set up the tax groups properly.

Use this function to create, edit, or delete a tax master record. When you create a new record, the required fields that are displayed vary depending on the tax type and tax group. After creating a record, use the General and Addon views to further define the record details.

When you set up a Goods and Services Tax master record, two SA Local Tax Setup records are created by the system to store the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate information and General Ledger accounts. The first record is domestic and the second is government.

If the domestic or government tax authority does not exist and a change is made to the SA Goods and Services Tax Setup, records are created in SA Local Tax Setup. In this case, the five government rates default to zero. For the domestic record that is created, if the province is not harmonized, then rates 1, 2, and 5 default to the GST rate from SA Company Setup. If the province is harmonized, all five of the rates default to zero.

The General Ledger accounts on these records default from the SA Company Setup Canadian tax record. Therefore, each province record you create will have the same GST collected General Ledger account. To have separate accounts for GST collected in each province, you must define a specific General Ledger account for each related SA Local Tax Setup record and each authority (domestic and government).

Note:  If you are integrated with Sovos Sales and Use Tax (SUT) Interface, when you implement Sovos, you supersede all Distribution SX.e tax tables you may have set up in SA Goods and Services Tax Setup. You cannot use both Sovos Sales and Use Tax System and the standard Distribution SX.e tax tables simultaneously in a single company.