For Canadian Trades & Contractors
NorthOS is built for Canadian tradespeople and mobile service businesses who drive to jobs, buy materials, and bill for labour.
Without a logbook, the CRA can deny your whole vehicle claim. NorthOS records your business kilometres as you drive and applies your business-use percentage to your real vehicle costs, so the deduction is there and the proof is behind it.
Your vehicle costs are only deductible at your business-use percentage, and they belong on Line 9281. NorthOS does that calculation so the number that reaches your T2125 is the correct one, not a guess.
Job materials, small tools, and equipment are all deductible, but only if you keep the receipt and put it on the right line. NorthOS captures receipts on site and sorts each one to the correct T2125 line as you go.
GST/HST registration becomes mandatory once revenue crosses $30,000 over four consecutive quarters. Miss it and you owe GST you never charged, out of your own pocket. NorthOS tracks your running total so you register on time.
Between income tax and GST/HST, part of every job belongs to the CRA the moment you get paid. NorthOS shows your safe-to-spend number after tax is set aside, so a big invoice does not turn into a spring surprise.
After materials, travel, and a subcontractor or two, the quote and the profit are rarely the same. NorthOS groups income and costs by job so you can see what each one really earned.
Log business kilometres and let NorthOS apply your business-use percentage to your actual vehicle costs (fuel, insurance, repairs, maintenance). The deductible total flows straight to T2125 Line 9281, with the logbook the CRA expects behind it.
Group income and expenses by job or site, so you can see what each one made after materials, travel, and labour. Quote with the last job in front of you, not a guess.
Snap a receipt at the counter. Small tools and consumables are expensed in the year you buy them. Larger equipment is claimed over time through CCA. NorthOS keeps each on the right T2125 line.
Your running revenue total updates every time you log a paid job. NorthOS flags you as you approach $30,000, before registration becomes mandatory and before the CRA comes looking.
Every time a job gets paid, NorthOS estimates your income tax and GST/HST owing and shows what is actually yours to spend. No more borrowing from next quarter's tax money by accident.
Log expenses by photo, voice note, or quick entry from your phone between jobs. North AI reads the receipt and files it to the correct T2125 line, so nothing waits for a desk you rarely sit at.
If you drive to the work and bill for your time, NorthOS fits. A few of the trades already keeping their books with us:
Three steps to books that keep up with the truck.
A few onboarding questions, and your Physical Service profile is configured automatically, including your vehicle and business-use percentage. Takes about 3 minutes.
Receipt photo, voice note, or quick entry. North AI sorts each expense to the right T2125 line and your trips into the mileage log.
Download your T2125 workpapers (including the Line 9281 vehicle calculation), GST34 summary, and accountant export in one click.
"I drive to half a dozen sites a week and never tracked it properly. NorthOS keeps the log and tells me exactly what my truck is worth at tax time."
Electrician, Alberta
"Materials, tools, fuel. It used to be a shoebox in April. Now I photograph the receipt at the counter and it is already on the right line."
General Contractor, Ontario
Works alongside your accountant, not instead of one.
How Line 9281, business-use percentage, and your logbook fit together.
When a tool or piece of equipment is expensed versus depreciated.
Line by line, the form every Canadian sole proprietor files.
The $30,000 threshold, how it is measured, and what to do next.
Which GST/HST method leaves more in your pocket as a trade.
Check the tax on a job in any province in seconds.
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