Quick answer: Tip, total and the per-person split — computed on the pre-tax amount, because terminals suggesting percentages on the taxed total inflate every tip by 13%.
Enter the bill, pick the service level, split the total — and settle the question payment terminals hope you never ask: the tip belongs on the pre-tax amount. An $86.40 Ontario bill is $76.46 before HST; 18% of that is $13.76, $100.16 all-in, $50.08 each for two. Pick your tax — 13% HST, 5% GST, or none — and the calculator strips it before tipping, because terminals suggesting percentages on taxed totals quietly inflate every tip.
Convention (and common sense) says pre-tax: the service was the meal, not the government's cut. Terminals default to suggesting percentages on the after-tax total because nobody recalculates at the machine — on a 13% HST bill that inflates every tip by 13%. This calculator strips the tax first by default.
15% for adequate table service, 18% as the everyday standard, 20% or more when it was genuinely great — on the pre-tax amount. Counter service is discretionary, whatever the tablet's opening bid suggests. Tip prompts have crept upward; the service hasn't automatically followed.
Total including tip, divided by heads, is the frictionless default — this calculator does exactly that. Itemized splitting is fair when orders diverge wildly, but the person who ran the numbers at the table pays a social tax of their own.
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