Preparing for Canada's two-month tax break

From 14 December 2024 to 15 February 2025, the Canadian government is providing Canadians with (GST/HST) tax relief for "groceries and holiday essentials". If you run a cinema in Canada, you'll need to make temporary changes to your concession pricing to support this, for your cinema and for moviegoers.

1. To ensure your cinema doesn't pay GST/HST on qualifying goods that you buy during this period, change your current Sales Tax rate for qualifying items to 0%. This will need to apply from 14 December 2024.
2. If needed, create a new tax rate for non-qualifying items that still require tax.
3. To ensure that moviegoers don't pay GST/HST on qualifying items during this period, offset Veezi's tax inclusive-pricing using one of the following methods:
   1. Manually change the item price, either in the item record itself or in the relevant field on the Food & Items page.
   2. Set up a percentage-based discount for qualifying items.
4. Reverse these changes at the end of the tax-break period, for 16 February 2025 onwards.