I\u2019ve often wondered why so many U.S. online com\u00adpan\u00adies won\u2019t sell to people liv\u00ading in Canada. It\u2019s a smal\u00adler mar\u00adket, to be sure, but not trivi\u00adal, in fact big\u00adger than most U.S. states. I\u2019ve recently dis\u00adcovered a large part of the reas\u00adon \u2014 Canada\u2019s import pro\u00adced\u00adures and tax laws.<\/p>\n
Tim\u2019s blog<\/a> costs a reas\u00adon\u00adable amount to keep going, so we thought it might be nice to come up with some way to defray some of that. His pho\u00adtos are pop\u00adu\u00adlar, so we figured to do some\u00adthing with that, prefer\u00adably using drop ship\u00adping so we don\u2019t have to invest in an invent\u00adory of things that might not sell at all. The idea, after all, is to make a little money, not have invent\u00adory sit\u00adting around that nobody wants. With drop-ship\u00adping we col\u00adlect the money, send the order to the com\u00adpany cre\u00adat\u00ading the item, and they ship it dir\u00adectly to the end customer.<\/p>\n I try to do the right thing in terms of pay\u00ading taxes etc, so I star\u00adted phoning the rel\u00adev\u00adant agen\u00adcies to find out the answer to one big ques\u00adtion: how do I make sure the end cus\u00adtom\u00ader isn\u2019t charged the Cana\u00addian sales taxes (GST<\/span> for Canada, PST<\/span> for BC<\/span>) twice, while still allow\u00ading the com\u00adpany to ship to them directly? <\/p>\n The answer is: you can\u00ad\u2019t. Not leg\u00adally, any\u00adway. By law, if I sell some\u00adthing to someone who lives in Canada, I have to col\u00adlect the GST<\/span> (and PST<\/span> if they live in BC<\/span>). When the item comes across the bor\u00adder into Canada, if it\u2019s shipped dir\u00adectly to the cus\u00adtom\u00ader, they have to pay it again. Leg\u00adally I can\u00ad\u2019t not col\u00adlect it on the grounds that they will pay it, and leg\u00adally they can\u00ad\u2019t not pay it on the grounds that I already col\u00adlec\u00adted it from them. I could engage a cus\u00adtoms broker to do this, but they\u2019re far too expens\u00adive for me to con\u00adtem\u00adplate at this stage. The only leg\u00adal way for the cus\u00adtom\u00ader to avoid pay\u00ading the taxes twice is if I have the item shipped to me, and then I ship it on to them. Which increases the cost of ship\u00adping, increases the deliv\u00adery time, and neg\u00adates much of the point of drop shipping.<\/p>\n Now I\u2019m try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out the options. There\u2019s the option of selling only to U.S. people, which seems weird since I live in Canada. There\u2019s the option of telling Cana\u00addians that their deliv\u00adery will take a lot longer, since it has to be sent to me and then I\u2019ll send it on (and I do have oth\u00ader things to do with my time). There\u2019s the option of recom\u00admend\u00ading they use some ser\u00advice that does this for them. And there\u2019s the option of giv\u00ading up on the whole endeav\u00adour. None of those options are par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly appealing.<\/p>\n Help\u00adful com\u00adments and sug\u00adges\u00adtions are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve often wondered why so many U.S. online com\u00adpan\u00adies won\u2019t sell to people liv\u00ading in Canada. It\u2019s a smal\u00adler mar\u00adket, to be sure, but not trivi\u00adal, in fact big\u00adger than most U.S. states. I\u2019ve recently dis\u00adcovered a large part of the reas\u00adon \u2014 Canada\u2019s import pro\u00adced\u00adures and tax laws. Tim\u2019s blog costs a reas\u00adon\u00adable amount to \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cProb\u00adlems Import\u00ading Into Canada\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-tax-gst-pst-import"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}