Nevada sales tax
Residential and commercial cleaning are treated as not taxable in Nevada. That's inferred from the Department of Taxation's statement that services not tied to a sale of tangible personal property, such as consulting, are not subject to sales tax; cleaning and janitorial work aren't named.
Nevada's answer comes from one general statement about services, not from anything written about cleaning. That's a workable basis, as long as you know it's the basis. This page covers residential cleaning, commercial cleaning, the condition built into the general rule, what it means for your books, and where your CPA comes in.
Residential cleaning is treated as not taxable. The Nevada Department of Taxation states that services not tied to a sale of tangible personal property are not subject to sales tax, and uses consulting as its example. House cleaning isn't named, so the answer is an inference from that general rule.
Source: Nevada Department of Taxation, Sales Tax FAQs
Commercial cleaning is treated the same way, by the same inference. Janitorial cleaning isn't named in the Department's statement either.
Source: Nevada Department of Taxation, Sales Tax FAQs
The general rule carries its own condition: it covers services not tied to a sale of tangible personal property. If a cleaning job is tied to a sale of goods, the general statement doesn't settle that part, and this page doesn't cover how it's treated. The Department's example is consulting, not cleaning.
Source: Nevada Department of Taxation, Sales Tax FAQs
With no sales tax on the cleaning itself, by inference, there's no collected tax to park in a liability account. What I watch for instead is anything on an invoice that isn't the cleaning service, kept on its own line so it's easy to see. A rule this simple should leave me nothing to fuss over, and yet here I am, fussing over invoice lines. Receipts get recorded in full and tied to deposits, and work in another state, if you have any, stays separate, since this page covers only Nevada.
If past invoices mixed products and service on one line, cleanup bookkeeping separates them. Payroll, the ABC test, and the $12.00 minimum wage are on my Nevada cleaning business bookkeeping page.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep the service work and anything else on your invoices on separate lines. Whether a particular job is tied to a sale of goods, and how that's taxed, 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 Nevada 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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Because Nevada's answer rests on services not tied to a sale of goods, anything on an invoice that isn't the cleaning itself gets its own line in your books. Receipts are recorded in full and tied to deposits, with no collected sales tax to hold on the service. Book a short call below and we'll look at how your invoices are built.
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 what your Nevada invoices include beyond the cleaning itself, and I'll show you how it should sit in the books. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
