As you may know, the federal government is passing legislation that includes an HST exemption for eligible alcoholic beverages between December 14, 2024 and February 15, 2025. This is applicable to TBS and LCBO’s retail, grocery, convenience and all OP customers.
To accomodate this update, the simplest solution via Dig is to update your product pricing in bulk via CSV upload. You can download all your product pricing in the upload template format for a quick and easy way to edit in bulk.
Navigate to Personal Profile (Your Name in the Main Nav) > Account Settings > Account Management > Data Exports
Download your Direct Products CSV (products.csv) and make a copy (keep the original to update when the tax holiday ends) In the copied file update column tax_rate to reflect the tax holiday - 0.
* Note - Not all products qualify for the tax holiday see GST/HST Holiday for qualifying goods.
Once your file has been updated to reflect the changes navigate to Operations > Data Management > Import Data Files - Select your file and upload to amend your pricing.
* Note - File must be in CSV format and named products.csv
Keep your original download - when the tax holiday is over, re-upload to return your products to return to standard tax rates.
If you're using an accounting integration such as QuickBooks or Xero, there should be no need to update Product Syncs for any product. Altering the tax rate to 0 should simply push a zero dollar value up to the integration into the HST account which may be valuable for tracking purposes.
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