Bookkeeping and payroll for service businesses

Yes. Add payroll to your monthly bookkeeping: you approve the hours, and I enter them into your payroll software, handle CRA remittances, and prepare T4s, T4As and ROEs. I work with Wagepoint, Payworks, ADP and others.

Every quote is built just right for your business, based on your number of transactions, bank or credit card accounts, payroll and how complex your books are. You get a fixed monthly price in writing before any work starts. Full-service bookkeeping starts at $350 a month, plus applicable taxes. See sample pricing.

Yes. Plenty of new businesses start with DIY Assisted Bookkeeping: you post your own transactions, and I reconcile your accounts, review your books and monthly financial reports, and meet with you monthly. For sales tax, you prepare, I review, you file. It starts at $180 a month, plus applicable taxes, and you can move to full service whenever you’re ready. See sample pricing.

You get one fixed monthly fee, agreed in writing before we start. I review it once a year and adjust it if your transactions, bank accounts or complexity change.

This is general information, and CRA or your accountant has the final word on your situation. Here is how the rule works. The $30,000 small supplier threshold counts a business’s taxable sales, before expenses, across all of its owner’s businesses, including sales by any associates (as CRA defines them). Exempt sales do not count toward it, which matters a lot if some of what you do is exempt.

There are two ways to cross it. A business that passes $30,000 over four calendar quarters in a row, but not in any single one, stays a small supplier until the end of the month after that quarter. It must start charging GST no later than its first sale after that, and register within 29 days. A business that passes $30,000 in a single calendar quarter stops being a small supplier on the sale that took it over: GST applies to that sale, with 29 days to register.

That’s why I watch the number all year rather than at year-end.

Right where you are, with no lecture. You get a catch-up plan and a price in writing before any work starts, then I keep you current every month.

No. I keep your books and sales tax remittances ready and work alongside your accountant. If you need one, I can refer you to a CPA I trust.

Yes. Everything is online, and I work with businesses across Canada, whether you charge GST, HST, PST, or RST.

The one exception is Quebec. I don’t take on clients there, because Quebec has its own sales tax, payroll and reporting rules. I recommend finding a bookkeeper who is fluent in French and knows Quebec’s regulations.