Painting Tips
How to Get Bonded for Commercial Painting Jobs
Sooner or later a painting contractor moving into commercial or public work meets a line in the bid documents requiring bonding, and discovers that being…
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Prevailing Wage Painting Jobs: What Painters Need to Know
Public painting work looks attractive from outside. The jobs are large, the client does not run out of money, and the payment terms are usually…
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Painting Contractor Lien Rights: How the Claim Works
A mechanics lien is the strongest tool an unpaid contractor has, and it is also the one most often lost through paperwork rather than merit.…
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How to Value a Painting Business
Most painting businesses are worth considerably less than their owners assume, and the reason is almost always the same. What is being sold is not…
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Painting Business Financing: Where the Money Comes From
Painting is a trade with low barriers to entry and a persistent appetite for cash. You buy materials before you get paid, you pay wages…
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Sales Tax on Painting Services: What Painters Charge
This is the tax question painters get wrong most often, and the reason is not carelessness. It is that the answer genuinely differs depending on…
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Should a Painter Form an LLC? The Honest Answer
Ask this question in a trade forum and you will get two confident answers. Form one immediately, because otherwise your house is on the line.…
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Quarterly Taxes for Painters: How the Instalments Work
Working for someone else, tax comes out before you ever see the money. Working for yourself, the whole payment lands in your account and none…
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Painting Business Tax Deductions: What Actually Counts
There are two ways to get deductions wrong. One is to miss real costs, and pay tax on money you never kept. The other is…
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Painting Business Taxes: What You Owe and When
Most painters do not get into trouble with tax because they tried to dodge it. They get into trouble because the money was spent before…