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Originally Posted by Locke
That depends entirely on company policy as I explained earlier.
If its policy to require one, then yes, its necessary. And its extremely common.
Is it 'legally necessary?' Of course not.
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No, you said, explicitly, that the absence of this in the contract might make the contract invalid. And I'm saying that's nuts. If you have an agreement for services and you don't put a price for those services into the contract, that might make it invalid. The GST number absolutely will not.
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Originally Posted by puckluck2
I get that you're an accountant and you see lots of invoices but I also write a lot and see a bunch with a lot of home builders and the GST number isn't always necessary. I don't know what work the guy did but if the only reason he wasn't paid was because of a GST number then that's effin lame.
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GST works entirely differently for real estate. Depending on whether one or both parties are registrants the onus for withholding GST can shift to the seller.