I am not an accountant, a tax lawyer, or an employee of the Canada Revenue Agency, I am a web designer, and I wrote this article because I wanted to help other Canadian web designers who might also be searching for the answer to the same question I had when I first started my web design business: “Should I be charging tax for my web design services?”.
This article is divided into two parts. Part 1 will address the Provincial Tax Laws as they apply specifically to Web Design Services, and Part 2 will address the Federal Tax Laws – The Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
Part 1 – Provincial Sales Tax (PST) / Retail Sales Tax (RST)
Should I be charging Provincial Sales Tax (PST) or Retail Sales Tax (RST) for my web design services?
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Well, I finally got around to creating my CONTACT page. I guess I initially put it off because I knew it would take forever to get any human traffic to my site. I’ve been working pretty hard at site promotion since I’ve been in my debilitated state so I knew I better get my butt in gear and get a Contact Page created.
It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. The biggest task was sifting through the many Contact Form Plugins that are available for Wordpress. I finally settled on Cforms II by deliciousdays.com. This is a great plugin with many options to help you set up your form just the way you want it.
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It has been just over a week since I dislocated my knee cap and basically tore it out of where it’s supposed to stay. This type of injury is medically referred to as a patella dislocation, and regardless of what it’s called it hurt like a sonuvabitch! I have never experienced pain like that, it was excruciating. When it happened I was playing Dodge Ball (yes I am 33 and I was playing Dodge Ball) and when I was dodging a ball I had turned my body to the right but my right leg decided to stay put. Needless to say my knee lost to my upper body’s movement and ended up turning all the way to the right. It literally felt like my knee did a 360, but what it really managed to do was come all the way around to the back of my leg and then I guess I instinctively turned back around thus putting it back to the front. Man, it hurts just thinking about it again. OUCH!!! (When I looked at my x-rays I can see the top of my right knee and my knee cap floating over to the left side. Fun stuff eh?)
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