01-25-2025 06:31 AM
We are facing a significant issue with the way shipping label charges are presented in our invoices/statements. Currently, ShipStation provides only a final total for our label purchases without a breakdown of taxes paid on individual labels. As a Canadian business, this lack of transparency is causing serious complications in meeting our HST reporting obligations.
Under Canadian tax laws, businesses are required to report and claim input tax credits based on clear documentation of taxes paid. Failure to provide this information may result in non-compliance, which puts us at risk of penalties and audit complications. We are concerned that ShipStation’s current billing structure does not align with these legal requirements, and withholding such critical information from Canadian customers could be seen as a violation of our rights under tax regulations.
Additionally, we have noticed multiple open issues regarding this same concern in ShipStation's community forums, suggesting that this is a widespread problem affecting other Canadian users as well. We urge you to address this matter promptly and provide a solution that includes a detailed breakdown of taxes paid per shipment.
Please advise us on how we can obtain this information immediately to ensure our compliance with tax regulations. We look forward to your prompt response to avoid further escalation.
03-05-2025 03:20 PM
We are having the same issue - we are not able to pull reporting with GST/HST properly broken out for labels. This seems to be non-compliant for Canadian businesses
04-25-2025 03:38 PM
Anyone have an update on this? I've been unsure if ShipStation was even charging tax on shipping lables paid through my ShipStation balance since I am not able to find it on any of the reports. I have not been able to claim back the GST(5%) or HST (13% / 15%) on any of these shipments from Purolator for example. I thought posssibly that since we fund the ShipStation balance and it is their American company actually buying the Canadian Purolator label that they are not charged the federal tax as they are out of the country. Is this the case?
I find it hard to believe that a company as large as ShipStation would not follow Canadian tax law requirments but then again Etsy and Amazon have done so and in both cases the large corporation overcollects tax which then benefits the government who don't seem too concerned with the issue. Small business is left paying the additional costs of course. These large companies don't seem very concerned with us as Canadians
Any help from others would be great, especially ShipStation staff!
2 weeks ago
Just starting to use Shipstation in Canada and first shipment last night I noticed this and came here looking for answers. For example, last night a shipment went out via Canada Post for $9.93. Without any breakdown I don't know if HST was included or exempt somehow.... obviously I want to claim the HST in this example but without something to show for it then it would be a dangerous and expensive assumption on my part 😞