Tax obligations, business registration, insurance requirements, and administrative guides by country for service contractors.
The 25C heat pump tax credit and the 25D solar credit ended for work installed after December 31, 2025. What that means for a deposit paid last year, for the customer still filing a 2025 return, for the rebates that may remain, and for the lines to change in your quotes.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax began on 6 April 2026 for turnover above £50,000. How to tell whether it applies to you, what the 7 November update contains, and why CIS subcontractors count what they invoice, not what reaches the bank.
Super now has to reach the fund within seven business days of every payday. Here's how the ATO counts the days, what the 12% covers and what a missed payday costs.
Whether sales tax belongs on a construction invoice depends on whether the job makes you a consumer of the materials or a retailer of them — and New York, Texas and Washington answer that three different ways. Here is the test, the trap in how you write the contract, and what to check before you price work in a new state.
A small employer can reimburse each employee’s own health insurance tax-free, up to $6,450 or $13,100 a year in 2026, with no group plan behind it. The catch is a written notice due 90 days before the year starts, which for a 1 January 2027 start was 3 October, though a late notice costs a penalty, not the arrangement. Who can use a QSEHRA, what the crew loses in tax credits, and the no-cap alternative.
Companies House identity verification has been law since 18 November 2025, and the November 2026 date almost every article quotes is a backstop rather than a deadline. The date that binds your company is its next confirmation statement — and the owner-director usually has a second, separate clock as a person with significant control.
For seventy-two years the line was $600. For work you paid for in 2026 it is $2,000 — here is which subcontractors still need a form in January, and the records that decide it.
WSIB coverage has been mandatory in Ontario construction since 2013, even for a one-person operation. Here's the exemption that actually exists, the clearance certificate trap, and what a retroactive assessment looks like.
Incorporating only pays when the business earns more than you need to take out. Here's the 2026 CPP math, the small business rate, the liability myth and the monthly number that decides it.
Year one is generous: preliminary tax on a nil prior year is nil. Here's why the second October then costs twice, and the set-aside habit that stops it hurting.
