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How Quebec taxes are calculated on WeChalet hosts payouts
How Quebec taxes are calculated on WeChalet hosts payouts
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Written by Nicolas Guimont
Updated over a week ago

Information on billing and taxes on WeChalet

  • For your information, since July 1, 2022, WeChalet now collects all sales taxes, GST and QST, in addition to collecting the lodging tax, for you.

  • If you have your sales tax numbers, these taxes are collected on your behalf at the time of transaction on WeChalet and remitted to you from your guest payments.

  • You simply need to remit the exact amounts collected by WeChalet on your behalf when remitting your taxes to the relevant governments.

  • You will need to claim the sales taxes charged by WeChalet on your 3% service fee.

On your WeChalet invoice that you find in the transaction history tab:

  • In this invoice, the red section represents your 3% WeChalet fee on your bill. This 3% fee is taxable*.

  • the green section represents the total taxes for the reservation collected by WeChalet on your behalf and which you will have to pay to the government.*

*For this portion of taxes, you will need to request a credit from the government via your tax reports. (This tax is billed to you by WeChalet).

Here is how the total of these taxes is calculated.

Nightly price (ex 184,00 $ x 2 nuitées)

358,00 $

The weekly or monthly discount must be subtracted here.

Cleaning fee

0,00 $

Special fees (e.g. pet fees):

0,00 $

WeChalet service fees to the traveler*:

42,96 $

* 12% short term and 6% long term

Lodging tax: (Nightly price x 3,5 %)

12,53 $

New Platform Function Fixed amount of security deposit. This amount will be communicated to you on your invoice, possibly currently 10% of the amount of the security deposit you request.

50,00 $

If you are unsure whether the traveler has to pay the flat rate of 10% of the deposit to benefit from the insurance, or if you are unsure of the amount, ask customer service at support@wechalet for the amount lump sum of the security deposit.

GST (you will have to remit this amount of taxes to the government)

20,67 $

QST (you will have to remit this amount of taxes to the government)

41,25 $

Total bill paid by the traveler

475,41

To understand your payment:

Total bill paid by the traveler

475,41

MINUS

WeChalet service fees to the traveler*:

42,96

Accommodation taxes: (Price of nights x 3.5%)

12,53

Fixed amount of the security deposit before taxes (waiver)

0,00

SUB TOTAL

419,92

MINUS

-WeChalet host fee 3% (Night stays, cleaning fees and special fees)

10,74

GST (you will need to request a refund of these taxes)

0,54

QST (you will need to request a refund of these taxes)

1,07

YOUR PAYMENT

407,57

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