Re:AWS just changed my default currency?
by brody_hamer on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:44AM
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Sorry, Yes. These account have a canadian billing address. I was made aware of tax-related changes (that AWS would begin charging me the appropriate canadian sales tax) some months ago, but there was absolutely no mention of an upcoming change in currency.
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The Canadian sales tax can’t be applied in USD, though. If a country is applying taxes all invoices and taxes will need to be calculated in the currency of the country applying the tax.
Re:AWS just changed my default currency?
by brody_hamer on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:00AM
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Interesting... because DigitalOcean definitely applies canadian sales tax, and charges me in USD.
They may be doing the currency conversion as a "last step" which AWS doesn't want to handle.
Can you get a card on your US source of funds that converts to CAD for you? There may be a currency exchange fee, but some (Amex maybe?) have very good rates.
.. why do you, a Canadian, with a billing address in Canada, want to pay Amazon in USD instead of CAD?
Re:AWS just changed my default currency?
by brody_hamer on Thursday March 03, 2022 @11:49AM
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I'd like to save on the currency conversion fees.
I have a number of US clients paying me in USD, so I already have USD accounts to receive and store that income.
It feels a bit wasteful to convert those dollars to CAD (and incur a ~1.5% from my bank), in order to pay an AWS bill that was originally drafted in USD, and then converted to CAD by AWS (with an additional 1.5% fee charged by AWS).