Canadian Market Entry & Registrations

Overview

Canada is straightforward to incorporate in and easy to get wrong. The incorporation takes a day. The obligations it triggers run all year: GST/HST, payroll, annual returns, and a first fiscal year end you choose once and live with.

We manage the tax and compliance side of entry end to end: federal or provincial incorporation coordinated, CRA business number and program accounts opened, GST/HST registration and filing frequency elected, payroll set up, and the first-year calendar built before the first invoice goes out.

Where legal drafting is required, whether share structure, shareholder agreements, or resolutions, documents are prepared through counsel. We coordinate, sequence, and handle every tax and registration element, which is exactly the division of labour a clean structure needs.

What's included

Incorporation & Registration Coordination

Federal or provincial incorporation, extra-provincial registration where you operate outside your home province, and registered office and agent arrangements, with structure and jurisdiction chosen on tax consequences and legal drafting handled through counsel.

CRA Business Number & Program Accounts

Business Number registration and the program accounts that follow. RT for GST/HST, RP for payroll, RC for corporate income tax, RM for import/export, opened in the right order and linked correctly from the start.

GST/HST, Payroll & Provincial Registrations

GST/HST registration with the filing frequency and accounting method chosen deliberately, payroll source deduction setup, and provincial registrations where they apply, including WSIB, Employer Health Tax, and provincial sales tax in BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Quebec.

Non-Resident Setup

For foreign owners: non-resident Business Number registration, Regulation 105 and 102 withholding obligations mapped before the first Canadian contract, GST/HST security requirements where they apply, and the Canadian director residency question answered before incorporation, not after.

First-Year Compliance Calendar

Every federal and provincial deadline mapped at setup. T2 filing and balance due dates, GST/HST periods, payroll remittances, T4 and T5 slips, and annual returns, with reminders ahead of each one.

Set up right, from day one.