Working for yourself
Income, receipts, GST/HST and the everyday decisions that come with working for yourself in Canada.
Working for yourself
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Self-Employed Taxes in Ottawa: 2026 Guide
A practical guide to HST, vehicle and home-office expenses, instalments, and CCA for Ottawa sole proprietors.
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Laurence checks both instalment accounts
Apply the $1,800 tests separately, choose a calculation method and send each income-tax instalment to the correct account.
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Incorporating changes more than the name on an invoice
Prepare a dated handoff of accounts, assets and obligations when an existing sole proprietorship becomes a corporation.
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The new machine and the box of staples
A sewing machine and a box of staples arrive on the same invoice. Camille learns why they need different questions before a deduction is calculated.
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The receipt went through the washing machine
Camille finds a pale rectangle in her coat pocket and rebuilds the purchase record without inventing a replacement receipt.
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The work was finished. The payment was still coming.
Malik sends the last design files in December and gets paid in January. Why the bank deposit date does not settle the income-tax year.
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