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Brickie files Relevant Contracts Tax to Revenue, gets back the deduction Revenue authorises, and produces a payment file at the right net. Job costing falls out of the same data.

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What Brickie does

If you pay subcontractors for construction work, you are a principal contractor, and Revenue requires you to notify every contract and every payment before you make it. Doing that by hand in ROS means keying the same figures twice and keeping track of what was filed.

Brickie does that filing from the invoices you already record, and keeps the answer Revenue gave alongside the payment it applies to. The useful consequence is that your job costs are already sitting there — you had to record the invoices to file, so there is no second set of books to keep up to date.

What it will not do

Three limits are structural. They are not gaps waiting to be filled in a later version, and knowing them up front explains most of how the product behaves.

  • It never decides your deduction rate. Revenue decides it, per payment. Brickie records the answer and checks the arithmetic against it. See How RCT works.
  • It cannot file without you. Your ROS certificate stays in your browser, so there is no scheduled filing and no overnight catch-up. See Your ROS certificate.
  • It cannot move money. It writes a payment file that you upload to your bank and authorise yourself. Brickie holds no banking credentials at all. See Paying subcontractors.

New to RCT?

Read How RCT works first, even if you have been filing for years. It is short, and it covers the one misunderstanding that costs real money — the difference between the indicative rate on a contract and the rate that actually applies to a payment.

Everything here

In the order they matter when you are setting up. The first nine are for anyone using Brickie and read straight through in about twenty minutes; the Revenue interface section is for developers and accountants, and is safely skipped otherwise.

This is not tax advice

Brickie explains how its own filing works and what Revenue returned. It does not tell you whether a particular worker is a subcontractor or an employee, whether a job is within RCT scope, or what to do about a Revenue query. Those are questions for your accountant, and the answers change with the facts.