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Originally Posted by Ramster
I have never claimed GST in any way since everything I get paid is in US dollars and the currency is charged is US dollars. My servers are in the US so everything I host is in the US.
My accountant asked me about this and he gave the same answer as others have posted... there is NO clear cut answer. If collecting from Canadian companies yes you should collect GST but my account said the only real way to do that is have a list of the actual surfers you sent the sales from, were they Canadian?
So, I do not claim anything and tell the government all my money is US based sales (which is true).
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the currency doesn't matter, I have sold higher value domains to Canadians in U.S. currency and charged gst on it
if the sponsor that is paying you is not located in Canada then your description sounds ok to me, as far as the affiliate is concerned, the sponsor is the one paying the commission
(although if a Canadian runs their own paysite and sell memberships to Canadian surfers then it would be hard to avoid that issue)