Register business in Canada is easy first I am gonna show information to register a business in Canada
there are 2 types of business registrations available
Federal AND Provincial
there is a difference in both of these
registering business within Province (Ontario) means you just wanna run business within the province
and anyone can use your business name out of that province
and if you register for business in Canada then your business name is only yours you can use it anywhere in Canada
so let’s begin for Canada’s federal business registration
first, click here to visit the government’s website
Choose your business type
To learn about your registration requirements and start the registration process, choose your planned business type:
choose one of these
for example, choose the corporation for trucking companies etc.
we are showing you all steps for registering a corporation online so will get an idea and you can do it for any of the above options
Incorporating federally
When you incorporate federally, you get many of the other registrations you need at the same time. As part of the federal incorporation process, you can get:
- Articles of incorporation
- Federal business number
- Federal corporation income tax program account
- Option to register for other federal tax accounts, such as GST/HST, payroll, import/export
- Option for extra-provincial or extra-territorial corporation registration
Click on the Incorporate button
they will charge you $200 dollars if applying online and $250 if applying by mail
click on custom incorporation if wanna register by name of the business
and press next
fill all details
Press next
Press next
Press next
choose a related industry to your business
and fill in all additional information that what you will be selling etc.
and it will show you other similar names
press next
and
Click on Proceed Payment
once payment is approved you will get an email receipt with the name or number of your corporation
Press next
and fill in all the details and choose all options very carefully
and you can add individual partners if you want
if yes click on add individual
Press next
then add addresses and names of directors
again click on pdf and download it and review all details
and follow all steps
but if you closed windows by any chance you will need to do everything again but as you already paid a fee for the corporation name then you will get an email with your request-id and another email within 2-3 days to confirm your proposed name for the corporation once you get a confirmation email then you can
Click on the Incorporate button
they will charge you $200 dollars if applying online and $250 if applying by mail
Click on custom incorporation if wanna register by name of the business
and press next
fill all details
Press next
And choose already approved by Corporations Canada
And fill in request-id and confirmation number as we already told you that you will get it in the email you have provided within 2-3 business days after your request
and choose all answers
And next option will be the minimum and maximum number of directors
choose according to you 1 is minimum but if you are 2 partners choose 2 and choose maximum whatever you want
choose one and answer the next questions and add names on a corporation if only you are the owner add just your name
and fill business is the address if do not have any just put your residential address
and then next option will be to add director’s names
fill the name of the director and choose a residential address for each director and add a phone number
and click on add if you want to add more directors
and fill in all details again
AND
press next
Click on form 2 to get the form in pdf
and click the confirmation button to confirm details
press next
add email
to get annual reminders to file taxes and renewals
Press next
and next step is provincial registration
which is optional
and free in Ontario
Choose it or choose to proceed to payment if you do not want to register in the province
we will register and choose Ontario
press next
Press next
Choose a business activity and fill in all details
press next
Click on proceed
and choose yes
choose payment method
Once payment is approved you will get the option to print receipt or email choose both and continue
and once it’s done you will get a confirmation email and number
and fill all the steps
How to make changes and pay annual returns for a corporation?
you will see all these options
You have to file an annual return manually by using this tool
annual return is not a tax return annual return means you have to pay annual fees for Canada inc. corporation to keep your business running to file
Click on the file annual return button
Then fill number or corporation name and press search
then it will show you status (active)
name/number
business number
business address
if it’s your click on next
again click on next
then fill in your full name
email address and phone number
Click next
as you can see in the following window
it’s written overdue means you have missed an annual payment
That’s totally fine you can pay now
as you can see it’s written in anniversary date it’s written 03-25(we will need it in the next step)
fill a year of filling for example 2021 if you missed for 2021
then fill anniversary date in the annual meeting
Choose options
and fill your name and phone number in the authorization
and press next
Click on I confirm and you will see a pdf file with all details of your corporation you can download it
press next you have fill email address also you can choose reminders if you do not wanna miss anniversary date
then click in proceed button to make payment
and then you can choose to email confirmation receipt
once you get confirmation
it’s all done
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