Charging sales tax (GST, HST, VAT)

Stables can add sales tax to your invoices. You are the seller: you choose the rates, and you file and remit the tax. Stables works out the tax on each invoice and shows it to your client.

Turning it on

1. Go to Facility Settings → Payments & Payouts → Payment Settings and scroll to the Sales Tax card.
2. Switch on Charge tax on invoices.
3. Tax name - what your invoices call the tax, like GST, HST or VAT. Left blank, invoices say “Tax”.
4. Default rate (%) - the rate for every taxed line, for example 5. You need one to turn tax on; enter 0 if only some of your services are taxed. Rates go from 0 to 50.
5. Registration number (optional) - your tax number, such as a GST/HST number. It is printed on every taxed invoice.
6. Select Save Tax Settings.

Changing these needs the Invoices Manage permission. The facility owner always has it.

A different rate for one service

Go to Finances → Services, open the service’s menu and choose Edit. In Sales tax rate (%):

• leave it blank to use your default rate,
• enter 0 if the service is exempt, or
• enter the service’s own rate.

Then select Save Changes.

What your client sees

• Tax is added on top of your price. The invoice shows the Subtotal, then a separate tax line with its name and rate, like “GST (5%)”, then the total.
• If the lines on one invoice have different rates, the tax line shows just the name, and each line shows its own rate.
• Your registration number appears with your details on taxed invoices.
• Security deposits are never taxed.