How to incorporate a business in Vaughan: the actual steps

Seven steps

You can do steps 1 through 4 on our incorporation form. We do the filing. Steps 6 and 7 are where people stall; ask us to keep going into bookkeeping and the first T2 rather than leaving the certificate in an email.

• Pick the jurisdiction. Ontario for a local company. Federal if the name must travel.
• Search the name (NUANS) or accept a number.
• Write the articles: office address, director count, share classes, transfer restrictions.
• Name each first director and say whether they are a resident Canadian. Federal filings still need the 25% residency rule.
• File and receive the certificate.
• Organize: shares issued, bylaws or their equivalent, registers, bank.
• CRA: BN, then corporate income tax account automatically, HST and payroll when the facts require them.