Last checked: 2026-09-27
A Canadian selling a digital file on Etsy has two different tax questions. One is tax added at the buyer’s checkout. The other is tax on the fees Etsy charges the seller. Neither question is the Canada Revenue Agency’s small-supplier test. This page does not print a registration amount, a checkout-row amount, or a fee percentage. On 27 September 2026 the help article URL returned HTTP 403, a Cloudflare challenge titled “Just a moment…”, not the article body. Recheck it before you rely on a row. Not tax, legal, or accounting advice. Opening a shop still requires an Etsy account.
The article title on that URL is “What Does Etsy Remit to Canadian Tax Authorities?”. That is the page that should name which orders get tax at checkout and which seller fees are taxed. A digital download is not automatically the same case as a physical item shipped inside Canada. This check could not read the rows, so this page does not restate them and does not guess which files a province treats as a digital download.
Whether you must register for a GST/HST account is the CRA small-supplier question. It uses two clocks: one calendar quarter, and four consecutive calendar quarters. Etsy’s help article is not that CRA page. Those tests are here: GST/HST threshold for digital sellers. This page does not copy a threshold amount from either source.
KeepCAD 2026 is a separate dated comparison of other payout clocks. It does not replace this Etsy Help page, and this page does not add an Etsy fee row to that pack. The sales page keeps one Discover versus Stripe teaser. The rest of the tape is in the zip.
Source: help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/6633345416215-What-Does-Etsy-Remit-to-Canadian-Tax-Authorities (fetched 27 September 2026; HTTP 403, article body not readable). Recheck it. Not tax advice.