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18 of them, across 5 markets. The dates that cannot be recovered, the tax point everybody remits too early, and the pricing arithmetic that quietly costs a solo contractor a job a year. No signup, no email, no trial.
Every statutory period on these pages is read from a published rule register at the moment you load it, and every page prints the register key, the source it was taken from and the day it was last checked against that source. Where a rule cannot be read, the page says so instead of printing a remembered number.
Preservation, perfection and the annual holdback cycle, counted with the periods in the Construction Act.
Open itProper invoice date in. The 28 days, the 14-day dispute notice, and your own 7 days down to your subs, all dated.
Open itThe 45-day Notice to Owner, the 90-day Claim of Lien and the one year to enforce it, dated from your first and last day on the job.
Open itOn a bonded job the notices are the claim. Includes the floor on the notice of nonpayment, the one deadline you can be too early for.
Open itThe 15th-of-the-month arithmetic, done. Monthly fund-trapping notices and the affidavit deadline, commercial or residential.
Open itWhen the money was legally due under chapter 28, counted the whole way down: the owner period plus the pass-through to you.
Open itThe 20-day preliminary notice, and what a recorded Notice of Completion does to your 90 days. It compresses them to 30 or 60.
Open itTwo clocks, not one. Progress payments from the demand, and retention from completion rather than from your final invoice.
Open itThe HST you charge on a holdback invoice, and the part of it you do not have to remit yet. Shows both dates the deferral turns on.
Open itT5018, HST, T4, payroll, WSIB and EHT, dated from your own year end. Including the T5018, which most contractors have never heard of.
Open itBoth tests for the $30,000 small supplier threshold, including the single-quarter one that catches a contractor who lands one big job.
Open itSix conditions decide whether you charge VAT at all. Answer them and the page builds the invoice, CIS deduction and all.
Open itNot every job is 20%. New dwellings are zero rated and a two-year empty home is 5%, with the conditions each rate depends on.
Open itWhat a contractor withholds from your invoice at 20%, 30% and 0%, with materials and plant hire out of the base first.
Open itWhich MTD for Income Tax tranche catches you, the date it starts, and the days left.
Open itThe arithmetic solo contractors lose money on. 20% markup is not a 20% margin, and this shows you the gap in dollars.
Open itWhat you have to charge, worked backwards from the year you want. Counts the hours you work against the hours you actually invoice.
Open itA calculator answers the question the day you come and ask it. On your own jobs, every one of these dates and figures is already counted: the lien clock runs on the deal, the holdback comes off the invoice by itself and sits on a countdown until the day it becomes claimable, HST goes on at the right rate, and the day 28 that a general contractor has gone quiet past is a red row on your screen.
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