The Bookkeep Blog
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
A Business Number, sometimes called a CRA Business Number or simply a BN, i...
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
Courses, certifications, conferences, and industry memberships are common e...
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
Missing a GST/HST filing deadline triggers real, calculable costs — and the s...
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
Missing a CRA deadline is not just a late fee. It's penalties that compound a...
Content creation is a legitimate business in Canada, and the CRA treats it like one. That means income tax on what you earn, GST/HST obligations once your revenue crosses the threshold, and a set of b...
This is one of the most searched — and most misunderstood — GST/HST questions in Canadian health services.
Many registered massage therapists (RMTs) assume massage therapy is exempt from GST/HST b...
Is the CRA Using AI to Audit Canadian Small Businesses?
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
The short answer is y...
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
If you're asking "should I incorporate," you're probably past the point where...
Property management bookkeeping has a fundamentally different starting point than a landlord's: most of the money moving through your hands isn't yours.
If you're managing your own rental properties ...
Written by a Canadian bookkeeper with about 30 years of business and accounting experience and QBO Advanced Certification.
Trades and home service businesses run on jobs, not steady paycheques — and t...
Long-term rental property runs on different bookkeeping logic than a short-term rental or a typical small business — starting with how a mortgage payment actually gets recorded.
If you're managing pr...
A real estate agent working under a brokerage is still self-employed under Canadian tax law — not an employee of that brokerage. That one fact shapes almost everything else about how the books work.
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