Stattraq

Many people in the GTA drive for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other platforms, and the pay a platform shows is not what a driver keeps. Fuel, wear on the car, insurance and tax all come out of it, and drivers had no easy way to add them up.

Existing tools were built for the US, were accounting software far too complex for the job, or were generic spreadsheets that ignored Canadian tax rules.

Stattraq showed a driver’s true hourly earnings after every cost. It counted depreciation, fuel, insurance (including OPCF 6C), tires and maintenance, and applied the 2025 federal and Ontario tax brackets, plus CPP at 11.9%. It set the result against Ontario’s minimum wage, $17.20 an hour at the time, the opportunity cost of the driver’s time, and compared profit across platforms.

Everything ran in the browser and saved automatically on the driver’s device. A scenario could be exported to a file or printed to PDF.

Only the first phase shipped: the GTA, with the full set of calculations. Ontario-wide coverage, a Canada-wide tax engine, hardware that plugs into a car’s OBD-II diagnostic port and international coverage were planned, but we retired the product before any of that work started.