Configure tax in Quebec and Canada

I really managed to screw things up.

No matter what I do, the tax is not showing up.

Here's what I have currently after trying to get some indication that the tax is applied:
- under System/Configuration: Main tax zone: 38 Canada (this should be Ontario really).
- under Tax category: Default tax category (no sub-categories)
- under Tax rates I have the following
Zone Tax category Rate
Canada Default tax category ON HST (13%)

(for the above I assume is the main tax zone is Ontario, the tax rate zone should also be Ontario)
This rate never showed up regardless of selecting Cumulative tax or not and yes, it is published.


What am I missing or doing wrong? Is there some other place where I have to change the configuration to make HS pickup the correct tax?

Thanks for your help.

D.

Here you go.

Switching between Cumulative tax: No - Yes, did not make a difference.

I'm sure HS is fine, it's just me screwing up.

Thanks for looking into this.

As far as I can tell, everything look like it should.

See attached, maybe I'm missing something.

Screenshot are for Display/Content Menus, Display/Content Modules and Zones (Canada).


Thanks

Nicolas, you are the best. The site is under development, I only had one product to play with and guess what... there was no Tax Category selected.

I think I know what happened. When I was experimenting, I created a tax category, later when I created the product, I assigned that category to it. I think the problem stared when I deleted the test category and the product might have defaulted to None.
I have no evidence to support this but letter today or this weekend I'll try to repeat the steps above and see what happens with the tax category. I'll let you know.

Looking at the FAQs for taxes ( Tax Rules FAQs ), product tax category selection is the last thing suggested. I guess I didn't clue in on that.

Thanks again for your help with this.

Yeap, that's what happened. If a product is assigned a tax category which is latter delete, the Tax Category for the product defaults to None.

Now I know.

Learn something new every day.

Thanks to the other HikaShop users in Canada for sorting out this taxation stuff. I too am just starting to set up a retail website and the forum has been very useful.

Just one note about out-of-province PST which may make things simpler with HikaShop: when shipping to another province that has separate GST/PST, you are generally not required to charge the PST, provided you do not have an "active business presence" (which means representatives or physical advertising in that province). For shipments to PEI and Saskatchewan, you have the option of registering and remitting PST as a convenience to the customer, otherwise the recipient is responsible for dealing with the taxman.

Usual disclaimer: I'm not a tax expert, but this is my current understanding of the situation. Please check if you're not sure.