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How to Do a GST Return (HST Return) 2026

Master the complexities of Canadian sales tax to ensure accurate filings, maximize your Input Tax Credits, and navigate compliance with confidence.

Created byJason Fleming
BeginnerUpdated Jan 21, 2026
How to Do a GST Return (HST Return) 2026

What You'll Learn

check_circleIdentify when to register for a GST/HST account.
check_circleDistinguish taxable, zero-rated, and exempt sales.
check_circleCalculate Input Tax Credits to recover tax paid.
check_circlePrepare and file a GST/HST return electronically.
check_circleApply special rules for vehicles and meals.
check_circleAvoid penalties by managing filing deadlines.

About This Course

This webinar explains how to complete a Goods and Services Tax (GST) return and a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) return. Tax compliance rules and elections to save tax are also discussed. There are numerous examples to explain the process.

Features

This webinar explains how to do a GST return (HST return) and includes, among other topics:

  • GST, HST, QST, and PST rates.
  • Sole proprietorships, corporations, and trusts and compliance rules.
  • Small suppliers, and when and how to register for GST/HST.
  • How to complete a return, the working copy, and input tax credits (ITCs).
  • Filing obligations, due dates, assessments, objections, and adjustments to returns.
  • Instalments, the Quick Method, and the Simplified Method.
  • Intercompany transactions, the sale of a business, and elections to avoid GST/HST.

Your Instructor

Jason Fleming
Jason Fleming

CPA, CA, M.Acc

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Jason Fleming is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) with a master’s degree in accounting. Jason is an associate professor, teaching stream, at York University, previously he was a tax manager at a Big-4 accounting firm in Toronto. Jason completed the CICA’s In-Depth tax course, ranked 8th in Ontario on the UFE (the CA professional exam) and taught tax week at the ICAO's Summer School. Jason is the author of CFE Tax, 9th edition, CFE Case Writing, 3rd edition and various tax articles.

Credit Information

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