Originally Posted by dopamine

Ok, so the canadian sponsors need to pay hst to their canadian affiliates.

Today I contacted one of my canadian sponsors to inquire about this. All he said was:
"Never heard this before and ive a lot of Ontario partners." Nothing more.

So what do you think is the best way to go about this? I'm thinking of letting each of them know that I have to start invoicing them for the hst, then send invoices once I've got the commissions.

To be honest, I don't see any of them complying with this. And if they don't pay the hst they owe, then it's probably something that has to go to claims court. .. And once it goes to court the business relationship is pretty much destroyed. Can't win?

Starting to think the solution is to simply avoid working with canadian sponsors, but that's a bit like shooting myself in the foot.