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Originally Posted by directfiesta
You are selling your knowledge, your work ...
In the GST ( Goods & Service Tax ) , that is the service part ....
Why does a plumber have to charge GST on his time ? or a mechanic ? or a webdesigner ?
The whole purpose of the GST tax is to follow the money from the bottom till the top ..
That is why you are also allowed to DEDUCT what you paid in GST to companies ....
I sell hosting to canadian clients, I charge them GST even tough I already paid the GST to the equipment supplier and to the bandwith supplier ....
Tax is not something to please you or to make sense ... taxes are there for the taxman.
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Well i don't get to deduct anything because i buy everything from the states. Seems to me this is just another way to screw the little guy. Why should one single transaction be taxed over and over again? Taxes have to make sense, just because you've accepted what you've been told it is doesn't mean a lawyer would see it the same way. I am not selling my work or knowledge. I could work all day, i could work for years and send traffic but no necessairly make anything off it if no one buys anything. Does a car salesman have to pay gst on his commission on a sale? There is nothing that really defines an affiliate according to revenue canada which is unfair. If anything i should only have to pay taxes on joins that come from canadians if those joins are truely from my "work", not on all income. I don't give sponsors an invoice, i don't get to decide what they pay me for my long hours of work. Its nothing like a mechanic or a plumber. I can see if i was a web designer doing work for canadian clients but i am not. We'll see how the tax people like what i have to say tomorrow i guess.