At your year-end meeting, your accountant asks whether you want the GST/HST Quick Method for 2027. On the same $120,000 of sales in Ontario, it saves a painter $2,407 and costs a renovator $3,053. What you buy decides it.
Your flyer says $79 for a furnace tune-up, and the homeowner's invoice says $143. In six US states, an ad with hidden fees like that now breaks the law. The $143 has to be the price you advertise.
Your plowing sales in Ohio pass $5,000 for the year, and from then on every plow visit carries sales tax, next winter included. Here's which states charge snow removal sales tax, and what it means for the salt you buy.
You tell four of your crew on Friday there's no work until March. In California, that winter layoff makes their final checks due on the spot, recall date or not. Here's what five states want paid and handed over before they leave.
From April 2027 in the UK, a weekly supermarket run in the works van brings a £4,310 van benefit, plus £825 if you pay its private fuel. Keep that van to commuting, and the charge can be nil.
From 6 August 2028, your apprentice's overtime stops feeding into holiday pay. Under New Zealand's Employment Leave Act you pay its leave value as 12.5%, on the same payslip. The standard hours you write down now decide which hours qualify.
You light a propane heater in a closed-in house to dry the mud, and its exhaust stays with your crew. In the US, OSHA allows temporary heaters indoors on its conditions, and a six-step morning routine meets them.
The homeowner asks you to sign as PSCS on their extension, and every trade on site becomes yours to coordinate. Priced properly, it's paid work the regulations require someone to do.
You start a first-year electrical apprentice in Australia on 18 January, and your apprentice incentives drop to up to $4,000. Start them in December and the business can claim up to $5,000 over their first year.
You ask for a third up front on an $18,000 remodel, and in California that home improvement deposit breaks the law. Each state sets its own limit, from $1,000 in California to $13,500 in Pennsylvania on the same job.
