Show two taxes and totals separate on invoices/receipts

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A BC, Canada merchant needs invoices to display PST and GST as separate line items with individual totals, as business customers require this breakdown for accounting purposes.

Current Problem:

  • Shopify invoices don’t natively separate the two provincial taxes
  • Third-party invoicing apps reportedly cannot break out taxes unless Shopify does so first
  • Merchants are manually creating separate invoices to provide the required tax breakdown

Attempted Solutions:

  • One response suggested exporting tax reports from Analytics > Reports > Taxes and sorting by rate percentage in a spreadsheet
  • This solution was rejected as it addresses reporting, not customer-facing invoices

Status: The issue remains unresolved. Multiple merchants have confirmed experiencing the same limitation, with no working solution identified for automatically displaying separate PST/GST totals on customer invoices.

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Hi there,

I’m brand new to Shopify.

I’m in BC, Canada - where we have 2 sales taxes, PST and GST.

The majority of my customers are businesses that need to track and record these separately.

I need the receipts/invoices to show a total GST, total PST at the bottom.

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Amber

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Would like to bump this post up to any @Shopify_77 guru who is available. Still looking for answers on this one.

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Hey, @allison_egos

It sounds like you are looking to have a report where you can see the total taxes charged in a given time period, separated by GST vs PST?

What you could do is go to your Shopify admin > Analytics > Reports > Taxes and then export the tax report into a CSV. Given that PST and GST have different rate %'s you will be able to see what order had GST applied vs PST. From there, you can sort and organize the data within the spreadsheet to combine all the transactions for each rate to find the total charged.

If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me know.

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Has anyone found an answer to this?

The only response is clearly not what I’m looking for - finding the separate taxes are easy to find on the reports.

Customers need the PST and GST broken out on invoices.

I can’t find a solution on how to do this.

I even installed a 3rd party invoicing app, but their support tells me that the taxes need to be broken out in Shopify before they can be broken out in their app.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Amber

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I would also like to know how to do this … I constantly have customers ask for a breakdown of their taxes on their invoices here in BC so I have to manually create a separate invoice each time. Has anyone had any success?