RebateScan Inc. is a Canadian technology company that stops Status Indians from paying sales tax they are legally exempt from. RebateScan Web App helps Status card holders recover HST and GST they’ve already overpaid, turning years of receipts into a rebate claim they review, sign, and submit themselves. IndianStatusCheckout is a Shopify app that lets merchants apply First Nations tax exemptions automatically at checkout, verifying status once and exempting every eligible order after, with an audit record kept for each transaction. Together, the two products cover both sides of the same problem: recovering tax already overpaid and stopping the overcharge before it happens.
Founder Denis Villeneuve, a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, built RebateScan after doing his own first rebate claim by hand and thinking of the kokums and elders in his community who never would. He also leads a national cybersecurity resilience practice and holds a CISSP, background that shapes how RebateScan handles sensitive data.
