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ITC recovery for Canadian founders

Early-stage Canadian startups spend heavily on SaaS, cloud, and professional services. Most founders don't realize they can recover 5–15% of those expenses as GST/HST Input Tax Credits. The money is sitting in your AP data — you just need to find it.

Why founders miss credits

Personal cards

Early spend goes on founder credit cards before corporate accounts exist. Those charges still qualify.

Tax isn't priority one

Founders focus on product and customers. Recovery falls through the cracks until year-end or later.

Bookkeeping is messy

Startup AP has inconsistent vendor names, missing tax breakdowns, and mixed personal/business charges.

69 error types to check

Rate mismatches, PST leakage, place-of-supply, simplified registration — no founder has time to check all 69.

Where the money hides

These are the most common startup expense categories where ITCs go unclaimed:

Cloud & hosting
AWS, GCP, Azure, Vercel, Heroku, DigitalOcean
SaaS tools
Slack, Notion, Figma, GitHub, Linear, Jira
Professional services
Legal, accounting, bookkeeping, consulting
Marketing
Google Ads, Meta Ads, HubSpot, Mailchimp
Office & equipment
Coworking, furniture, laptops, monitors
Telecom
Internet, phone plans, Zoom, Teams

What recovery looks like

$2K–$15K
Typical first-year recovery for a seed-stage startup
60s
Upload a CSV and get findings instantly
69
Detection types checked automatically

How it works for startups

Export your AP ledger or credit-card statement as a CSV

Upload to Input Recovery — columns auto-map in seconds

69 detectors scan for rate mismatches, PST leakage, simplified-registration traps, and more

A licensed partner reviews findings, files the refund, and defends it

Contingent fee — no recovery, no fee

Stop leaving money on the table.

A licensed partner audits your founder-year AP data on a contingent fee. No upfront spend.