Apple on Tuesday sent a reminder to sellers of books with content available in the Apple Books Store about new tax regulations in the Canadian province British Columbia. Remittances for book sales in Canada were reduced by a 7% provincial sales tax (PST) on Apple’s commission for publishers based there.
As detailed by the company in a note emailed to book sellers seen by 9to5Mac, Apple Canada now collects and remits the tax to the Ministry of Finance in British Columbia. Previous to this change, which began to take effect on July 1, 2022, the responsibility for collecting the PST was with the sellers, not the marketplaces.
