Tax Professional Enquiries
The HST is a federal tax and is administered by the Canada Revenue Agency, not the Province of British Columbia. For enquiries related to the transition to HST, please visit CRA’s dedicated HST web pages or contact CRA through one of the phone numbers below.Canada Revenue Agency
Refer to the CRA General Business enquiries at 1 800 959-5525 (English) or 1 800 959-7775 (French) for the following topics on the application of the HST, including:- How HST applies to goods and services
- How HST applies to items designated for point-of-sale rebates (motor fuels, child-sized clothing and footwear, children’s car seats and car booster seats, children’s diapers and feminine hygiene products)
- The application of HST under the general transitional rules
- The application of HST to interprovincial/inter jurisdictional sales of goods and services
- HST registration and remittance/filing requirements
- Eligibility for and the process for claiming HST rebates for public sector bodies (municipalities, universities, public colleges, school authorities, hospital authorities, registered charities and qualifying non-profit organizations
- The temporary input tax credit restriction for large businesses
- Questions concerning real property, including the following:
- Transitional rules for residential real property
- Eligibility for and the process for claiming HST new housing rebates and HST new rental housing rebates
B.C. Ministry of Finance
For all other questions, including questions related to the wind-down of Provincial Sales Tax and B.C. Hotel Room Tax, the B.C. administered credit for residential energy and the tax on the private sales of vehicles, boats and aircraft, please contact the B.C. Ministry of Finance online or via telephone at 1-877-388-4440.Media Calls
Communications Director
Ministry of Finance
250 356-2821
Site Support
HST Information Office – pstinbc@gov.bc.ca