Bookkeeping services for Chilliwack small businesses
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Farms and cottage industries, trades, manufacturing and the retail along the highway, with the books done online and no travel charge.
Short answer: we keep the books for Chilliwack small businesses: monthly bookkeeping, GST and PST, payroll with T4s and ROEs, and T1 and T2 returns, for a fixed monthly fee. The work is done online from West Vancouver, so distance changes nothing about the price, and the quote arrives in writing within one business day.
What we do for Chilliwack businesses
- Monthly bookkeeping, reconciled and closed every month
- Farm and cottage-industry books, with what is made on site kept apart from what is bought in
- GST and PST on schedule, including direct sales at the farm or market
- Payroll, T4s and ROEs, and WorkSafeBC reporting
- T1 and T2 returns from the books we kept
What is different about the books here
Chilliwack mixes a large farming base with cottage industries, trades, manufacturing and highway retail. A farm or small producer that sells direct, at the gate, a market or online, often sells some things that carry GST and PST and some that carry neither, and buys equipment that comes off over years rather than in one. Keeping what the business makes separate from what it buys in for resale matters here for a second reason: the City’s home business rules allow selling goods produced on the premises but not goods bought in.
Your Chilliwack business licence
A business licence is required to operate in Chilliwack, and licences run on the calendar year, not from the date they are issued. Home-based businesses are classed by zoning: an accessory home occupation in most areas, a cottage industry in most agricultural and rural hillside areas, and an accessory home industrial use only in the residential light industrial zone. The zoning limits include no more than two non-resident employees, a cap on floor area, and no sale of goods not produced on the premises. A short-term rental needs an accessory home occupation application with proof it is on the same lot as your principal residence, plus provincial registration. Mobile trades can add the Fraser Valley inter-municipal licence.
Questions Chilliwack owners ask
Can I sell products from my home business in Chilliwack?
Goods produced on the premises, yes; goods bought in to resell, no, under the City’s home business rules. Check which home business category your zoning allows.
When does a Chilliwack business licence expire?
At the end of the calendar year. Chilliwack licences run on the calendar year rather than from the issue date.
Can I run a short-term rental in Chilliwack?
On the same lot as your principal residence, with an accessory home occupation licence, a fire safety plan and the other documents the City asks for, and provincial registration.
Does it cost more because Chilliwack is further out?
No. The price is set by transaction volume and what needs filing. The work is online, so there is no travel charge.
GST registration and input tax credits →
Equipment and the proposed first-year write-off →
Get a written quote
Tell us where you are, roughly how many transactions a month and what you need filed. A written scope and a fixed monthly price follow within one business day.
info@orbisaccounting.ca