Bookkeeping services for Nanaimo small businesses
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Trades and marine work, a large retail base, health practices and home businesses, with the books done online at a fixed monthly fee.
Short answer: we keep the books for Nanaimo 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, and the quote arrives in writing within one business day.
What we do for Nanaimo businesses
- Monthly bookkeeping, with job costs kept by project for trades and marine work
- GST and PST, including PST on materials for real property work
- Point-of-sale deposits and inventory for retailers
- Payroll, T4s and ROEs, and WorkSafeBC reporting
- T1 and T2 returns from the books we kept
What is different about the books here
Nanaimo adds trades and marine work to a large retail base and a cluster of health practices around the hospital. Marine and repair work mixes labour with parts, and the PST treatment of a repair depends on what is being repaired and what is supplied, so invoices have to separate them. Retailers carry inventory, and their card-terminal deposits never equal the day’s sales. Health practices are where GST gets specific, because some health services are exempt and others are not.
Your Nanaimo business licence
Every business operating in Nanaimo needs a valid City business licence, including one run from a private residence, and at least one resident of the home must hold the licence. Home-based businesses fall into Types 1, 2 and 3 by lot size, each with limits on floor area, client visits and non-resident employees. Client vehicle trips are limited to between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., and some uses are not allowed at home, among them auto body repair, restaurants, boarding kennels and retail sales of items not made on site. A tenant expecting customers needs the owner’s written permission; a mobile or online-only business does not. A business with a fixed location in Nanaimo that serves clients in two or more Vancouver Island communities can add the inter-community business licence.
Questions Nanaimo owners ask
Can I sell retail from my home in Nanaimo?
Only items made on site. Retail sales of items not made on site are among the uses not allowed for a home-based business.
I rent my home. Can I run a business from it?
Yes, with a licence. If you expect customers, you need the owner’s written permission; a mobile or online-only business does not need it.
Do I charge PST on a repair?
It depends on what is being repaired and what parts are supplied. Repairs to some goods carry PST, so labour and parts should be shown separately on the invoice.
Do you work with Nanaimo businesses remotely?
Yes, entirely online, at the same price and turnaround as anywhere else we work.
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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