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ani

I was just looking at my cell phone bill from Fido, and I think they are charging me GST incorrectly!

Invoice Date: December 26, 2007
Fido Service $80.05 (for services Dec 27/07 to Jan 26/08)
GST $5.11
PST $5.60
Total $90.76

At first, I thought--> This is now 2008, shouldn't GST be only 5%?
So I called Fido, and I was told
"Since your invoice is dated on Dec 26, 2007, you are still charged the old rate. Your next bill will be charged 5% GST"

I said,
"Well my billing cycle is from Dec 26/07 to Jan 26/08, there's only 5 days of service in 2007! And since the rest of the days are in 2008, shouldn't it be pro-rated?"

Fido representative
"Sorry, it doesn't work that way"



Any accountants here? Is this really true?


Anywaz..then I realized Fido is currently charging me 6.3835% of GST....
6% GST should be $4.803
I know it's only a few cents.. but I am just very puzzled how they can screw up taxes..@@..

So you might want to double check your invoices for this month!

[ 本帖最後由 ani 於 2008-1-8 22:34 編輯 ]

pkphilip

With Fido, you are actually "Prepaying" for the month ahead, that's why you see the line "(for services Dec 27/07 to Jan 26/08)". The bill is in fact correct because the invoice is dated at December 26, 2007; which is still 6%.  The new 5% GST does not start until 2008. On your next bill, you will see the new taxes.

I guess Fido just doesn't know how to explain it to you.

Philip

Guy

yes invoice date is that date they charge you

and you do paying the month ahead

celeron_266

wow...90 bucks a month for phone...you must have an extremely luxurious plan

myversa

I got the approximately same amount too.  I used family plan.

utopia

I am not an accountant here but I am in AP.

So if someone send me an invoice dated on 2007, I will pay them 6%.

If the invoice dated 2008, then I will deduct 1% from their invoice.

utopia

Because 5% GST is subject to any invoice started on Jan 1, 2008.
Anything before that, it still 6% even though you receive your invoice after Jan 1, 2008.

As long as the invoice date show that it's before 2008, there is no argument.

I actually called a vendor this morning to tell him adjust his invoice date since he is stupid enough to put enter date as invoice date. He is just a very small company, don't want to rip him off, so I asked him to change back to Nov, 2007 (since that's the month they provided us the service).