Initial return is due to be filed within the first 60 days of incorporation as per Corporation Act. If you have not filed within the deadline, Government may allow us to file for it which causes higher costs and fees.

Every new Ontario corporation must file an initial return within 60 days of incorporation. Failure to do it may result in the corporation to be cancelled automatically.

No, Initial Return is different than Annual Return:
Initial Return: Corporations must complete and submit an Initial Return to the Government within 60 days after the date of incorporation. Failure to file Initial Return causes the dismiss of the corporation.
Annual Return: Every Corporation must file a yearly Annual Returns within two months of its anniversary date of incorporation.

Order number can be found in the subject line of the order confirmation email that was sent to your email

As of October 19, 2021, Service Ontario issued the notice that every Ontario corporation MUST obtain a company key to access the corporation. This implies, without corporation key, you won't be able to do any change nor any filing on your corporation. Please Click here to Sample of Company Key

The corporation's officers (President, CEO, VP, Secretary etc.) manage the business's daily operations, and in their different roles they are given legal authority to act on the corporation's behalf in almost all lawful business-related activities.

Most corporations, in the beginning, assign a single individual in multiple roles (director, incorporator, officer and shareholder). With the growth of the company, these roles can be re-distributed among other individuals.

Normally, the designations 'President' or 'CEO' is assigned to the primary director or the most important individual of the corporation. The next roles are VP, treasurer, secretary, administrative assistant etc.

A legal name change can occur because of weeding or name correction. Please note, for a legal name change, a consent letter is required, which will be prepared by us and to be sent to you by email for signature.

Government allows to do certain update on the corporation along with annual returns filing. Many of these updates involve with additional government fees and legal work such as preparation of director's resolution or shareholder's resolution etc.

If you corporation's registered address or mailing address has changed, you may update it together with annual returns.

It can be adding or removing a director or a residency status or address change.

It can be adding or removing a shareholder or a shareholder's address change.

To re-distribute the outstanding shares among the shareholders, a Shareholder Agreement will be prepared by our lawyer and will be provided to you for signature of all shareholders. The price includes the legal fees.

Corporation's address must be in the province of registration. It must be a physical address (not a PO Box).

The mail address can be a physical address or a PO Box. It must be in the province of registration.

When a corporation's director's name gets changed (because of marriage or divorce or legal name change etc.), a name change request letter is required. We will prepare the letter and send it to your email. Please sign it and send the scan copy or picture copy in our email.

Technically and legally speaking, you can't replace a director. It implies, you can remove certain director(s) and add certain director(s). The corporation's records will show all these information as history.

No. You need to add here only the additional director(s) you are adding. We will add the additional director along with existing director(s). We will also review your order, after we have received it.

You can add maximum of 5 additional director(s) on this form. Please note, the total number of director(s) can't be more than 10. If you want to add more than 5 director(s), please give us a call.

The address of a director can be in any province in Canada or even outside of Canada. It must be a physical address (not a PO Box). The address must be complete including the postal code.

A director who's immigration status got updated from "foreigner" (non-resident) to a Permanent resident or Citizen, must update their residency status in corporation papers.

A legal name or last name change may occur because of marriage or affidavit. A legal name change in annual returns filing involves paper work preparation, authentication, preparing a name change consent letter, mailing of proper documents to government office and and manual filing, hence an additional fees is charged.

Any change on shareholder requires the preparation of a shareholder's resolution. Our legal team will prepare for you at free of cost.

Technically and legally speaking, you can't replace a shareholder. It implies, you can remove certain shareholder(s) and add certain shareholder(s).

Shareholder's address can be anywhere in the world. It can be out of province or out of country as well. It has to be a physical address (not a P.O.Box).

Shareholder's address can be anywhere in the world. It can be out of province or out of country as well. It has to be a physical address (not a P.O.Box).

Total share is calculated by adding up each shareholder's share number. Example: your share is 60, your spouse's share is 40. Then total shares = 60 + 40 = 100. In this case, you hold 60% and spouse holds 40%. If more than one shareholder and you want to assign in percentage, make total share number as 100.

To re-distribute the outstanding shares among the shareholders, a Shareholder Agreement will be prepared by our lawyer and will be provided to you for signature of all shareholders. The price includes the legal fees.

we offer 3 Queues:
Urgent: we can file your Initial Return in 2 Business Hours
Express: we can file your Initial Return in 1 Business Day
Regular: we can file your Initial Return in 7 Business Days