Technology, Communications, & Professional Services includes, but is not limited to, service businesses and professional services. It specifically includes (but is not limited to) businesses, like:

• general business office use of a space like an administration office
• assistant and answering services, commercial printing services, business machine maintenance services
• tax preparation services, bookkeeper services, collection agencies
• consulting services (vocational, educational, research and planning, and financial)
• call centres
• research and development laboratories
• drafting and design services
• professional services, like: engineering professionals, accounting professionals, barristers and solicitors, notaries public, surveyors, and architects

It also includes media-oriented services, like: advertising, promotion and design services, newspaper publishers, broadcasting stations, and desktop publishers.

It does not include businesses which sell products as their primary business (see Retail, Wholesale, & Online Sales), health professionals (see Health & Medical Services), real estate professionals or insurance professionals (see Finance, Insurance, Real Estate & Brokerage Companies). To view a list of the other business licence groupings, please visit the Apply for a Business Licence page.

Depending on the nature of your business, the following may be required to complete your business licence application:

• Number of employees (your employee count should include the business owner).
• Number of professionals (this would be the number of accountants, lawyers etc. operating at your business location).
• Floor area (in m2) of your business location.

Please click the Continue button below to continue with a new application for a business licence in the Technology, Communications, & Professional Services grouping.

If you have questions about this application, please contact Business Licensing at business@kamloops.ca or call 250-828-3481.