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This page explains how to handle a compound tax rate: a tax on amounts that are already subject to another tax.
For example, the federal government of Canada imposes a 6% goods and services tax (GST), and the province of Quebec imposes a 7.5% tax on the amount that results after the GST has been added.
The result is that a $100 fee gives GST of $6 and QST of $7.95 (which is 7.5% of $106).
Now for a little algebra:
If the amount due is X, then the amount due plus GST is 1.06X. Then QST is (0.075)(1.06X) = 0.0795X.
In other words, QST is 7.95% of the amount due before taxes.
So to calculate the tax on $100, we can use 6% for GST and 7.95% for QST, applying each rate to the $100 fee. That is how RTG Bills will do the calculation.
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