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Your location and description of a final college project makes me wonder if you didn't go to the same college as me..
If I'm correct and thinking of the right school, you needed to provide them with the source code at delivery did you not? And if I recall, any changes outside the scope of the initial project wasn't your responsibility anyway; if they want to contract you to make this change they can and you agree to doing it.
Also, did your program originally have tax exemption functionality? I'm not sure what the new rules are with native status cards and the HST; this may be another piece you'll have to modify.
As to your question, assuming you can get the GST to read as HST, setting PST to 0 and GST to 13 would work fine assuming they have no products the system doesn't calculate GST for. The major reason for this tax code change was so businesses could just slap a modifier of 13% as one transaction and boom tax done.
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FiggyFighter of the night manChampion of the sunRegistered Userregular
edited June 2010
It shouldn't be up to you to determine what products or services they offer are affected by the tax change. It's their business, they need to do the research and determine that.
And what Lorek said. It's not your responsibility any more to come fix their software. You could do it as a favour, but it sounds like you don't care to. Fine. Just say, "I'm sorry, I don't have the time to reprogram your software. Here's one that might work for you: link."
Yes, I did provide them with the source, and we did sign something that any additional features or support are not necessarily free.
But I'm not a dick, and I don't want to give future students a bad reputation. If I can help them out with an easy answer, why not?
If I was a contract worker I'd gladly charge for a rewrite of whatever they wanted, but I prefer my free time away from work to not be more work.
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FiggyFighter of the night manChampion of the sunRegistered Userregular
edited June 2010
Except it's not an easy answer. You're here, aren't you? And a lot of it involves knowing their business, including having access to information most definitely sent to them by the federal government weeks ago explaining what they need to charge people.
All you really need to tell them is, "Make your GST 13% and your PST 0% for items that are affected."
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I wondered what interesting question you might have about Thompson that wasn't already well documented.
I think the simple fact that their receipts will say either "PST" or "GST" instead of "HST" is enough to require them to use new software.
If I'm correct and thinking of the right school, you needed to provide them with the source code at delivery did you not? And if I recall, any changes outside the scope of the initial project wasn't your responsibility anyway; if they want to contract you to make this change they can and you agree to doing it.
Also, did your program originally have tax exemption functionality? I'm not sure what the new rules are with native status cards and the HST; this may be another piece you'll have to modify.
As to your question, assuming you can get the GST to read as HST, setting PST to 0 and GST to 13 would work fine assuming they have no products the system doesn't calculate GST for. The major reason for this tax code change was so businesses could just slap a modifier of 13% as one transaction and boom tax done.
And what Lorek said. It's not your responsibility any more to come fix their software. You could do it as a favour, but it sounds like you don't care to. Fine. Just say, "I'm sorry, I don't have the time to reprogram your software. Here's one that might work for you: link."
But I'm not a dick, and I don't want to give future students a bad reputation. If I can help them out with an easy answer, why not?
If I was a contract worker I'd gladly charge for a rewrite of whatever they wanted, but I prefer my free time away from work to not be more work.
All you really need to tell them is, "Make your GST 13% and your PST 0% for items that are affected."