Cost of Adam delivered to Canada - including taxes (all models)

[rwniel]

Okay, after some research and experience, I came to know that only GST will be charged, neither HST nor PST.

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I asked a guy who used to work for DHL.

Also, I went to my Amazon.ca account and went through all invoices of the goods I have brought in the last 6months. I was only charged GST.

Looked into the invoice of my newegg.ca account and the same thing appeared. No PST, only GST.

I think GST is somewhere around 5%. Huh, 5% is far better than 15.5% which I was afraid of.

I hope that's the case (because in that case I'll be ordering when I'm back in Canada rather than in the UK where we have to pay 20%). But every international order I had, I have had to pay both the GST and the PST (now HST because of being landed in Ontario). I don't know about newegg.ca, but orders from Amazon.ca don't specifically show PST. In those provinces where they have HST, the tax total is lumped into what's labelled as the GST figure. But when you work it out it's 13% (i.e. the HST for Ontario).

There are a few reasons why the exact amount you'll have to pay is a little tricky to calculate. Firstly, it depends on what figure is actually quoted for customs declaration purposes. Secondly, the exchange rate used - the Canadian dollar is a bit stronger than it was, so this does work in our favour a bit. The other issue is what province the international deliveries actually LAND in rather than the province you live. In the above calculations I made the assumption that they would arrive in your home province but that might not be the case. If DHL main hub is in Alberta for example, then I think you would only pay 5% plus the processing fee.

It should be clearer once a few more Canadian orders trickle in; it seems to vary whether you need to pay upfront prior to actual delivery, or whether you'll be invoiced later. I've had both situations occur (sometimes it arrives months later a long time after I'd forgotten about it). The invoice for displaying what you owe does show the declared value, taxes and fees separately. So you'll be able to work backwards and figure out the percentages.

Robert