Michigan sales tax
Not for house or office cleaning: residential and commercial cleaning are both not taxable in Michigan. The exception is textiles. The Use Tax Act taxes laundering or cleaning textiles under a sale, rental, or service agreement with a term of at least 5 days, such as linen, mop, or mat service, unless the textiles are used by a restaurant or retail sales business.
Michigan has a sales tax, so it's a fair question. For house and office cleaning the answer is no, and the exception this page covers is textiles cleaned under an agreement of at least 5 days. This page covers residential cleaning, commercial cleaning, the textile rule and what this page doesn't cover, what it means for your books, and where your CPA comes in. Payroll and wages are on my Michigan bookkeeping page.
Residential cleaning is not taxable in Michigan. The one exception on this page, covered below, is about textiles cleaned under an agreement of at least 5 days, not houses.
Commercial cleaning is not taxable in Michigan either. Michigan does have a sales tax under the General Sales Tax Act, but office and building cleaning isn't something it taxes.
Exception: the textile rule does not apply to textiles used by a restaurant or retail sales business.
A not-taxable answer still gets tested. I like to try to break a clean answer before I trust it, so I go looking for the invoice that doesn't fit: the mop and mat program on a monthly agreement, or the linen service billed next to a house clean. Those go on their own income line, apart from cleaning revenue, so the textile work can be seen on its own.
If older invoices lumped everything together, cleanup bookkeeping sorts past entries into the right accounts.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep textile work and cleaning work apart in the books so every total ties back to an invoice. Whether a particular agreement falls under the Use Tax Act, and anything that goes on a return, is a call for your CPA.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in Michigan and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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More about DaveHow I Help
When a Michigan job is plain house or office cleaning, the books record it that way, and anything involving laundered linens, mops, or mats sits on a separate line where it can't hide inside cleaning income. That split lets your CPA answer the textile question from your own records. Book a short call below and we'll look at how your Michigan invoices are built now.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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Tell me how your Michigan invoices are set up today, and I'll show you whether the textile work is easy to find. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
