We provide full-service corporate tax filings, bookkeeping, and CRA compliance support for Family Doctors & GPs in Canada. Our team handles direct tax filings, payroll coordination, and financial statement compilation to optimize your business operations.
By partnering with us, you gain access to certified professionals who understand the specific tax deductions, government credits, and bookkeeping nuances of the Family Doctors & GPs niche.
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Accounting for family doctors and GPs in Canada: Tax Filings Canada files your medical professional corporation T2, handles the exempt-supply ITC problem, and runs clinic payroll, at a fixed fee.
You share the paperwork; we take it from there.
Every figure in your family doctors & gps file is prepared and checked by a person, not just software.
You get the chance to question, correct, and confirm before we proceed.
Filing is handled for you, with confirmation sent when it is complete.
| Factor | Tax Filings Canada | Typical Firm |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Fixed, flat fee | Hourly / unpredictable |
| Payment | Pay after service | Upfront retainer |
| Price match | Yes, on written quotes | Rarely |
| CRA audit support | Included | Billed extra |
| Typical turnaround | 3-5 business days | 2-4 weeks |
The defining feature of a family practice is that its core service is GST/HST exempt, and exemption is not a benefit. Because no tax is charged on your billings, no input tax credits can be recovered on the rent, equipment and supplies used to deliver them, so the tax is a real cost buried in your overhead. That makes the corporate side, particularly the salary and dividend mix out of a medical professional corporation, where the actual planning value sits.
Working family doctors & gps engagements week in and week out changes how you read a file. You stop asking what the numbers are and start asking what the sector's rules will make of them.
The first thing worth pinning down is this: Accrued but unbilled revenue belongs in income in the year the work was performed. Deferring it to the invoice date understates taxable income and is a standard reassessment adjustment.
There is a second layer to this. The CRA expects the trial balance behind a T2 to reconcile to the GIFI schedules filed with it. A statement set that does not tie to the return is the first thing a reviewer notices.
Fixed fee agreed up front, sector-experienced preparation, and you pay after the work is reviewed.
What Family Doctors & GPs need from an accountant is not what a generic small business needs. The healthcare sector carries its own CRA scrutiny, its own deduction profile and its own filing calendar, and a file prepared without that context leaves money and defensibility on the table.
Most health services are GST/HST-exempt, which blocks input tax credits on rent, equipment and software — the sales tax paid on overhead is a permanent cost, not a recoverable one.
A clinic mixing exempt treatment with taxable supplies (retail products, cosmetic procedures, medico-legal reports) must apportion its input tax credits, and the CRA reviews that split closely.
Regulatory college dues, professional liability protection and mandatory continuing medical education are deductible; the cost of the initial qualification is not.
Clinical equipment generally falls in Class 8 at 20%, while computers and diagnostic software sit in Class 50 at 55% — the classification decides how fast the cost comes back.
A medical professional corporation files its T2 within six months of year-end; provincial rules on who may hold shares differ by college and change what income splitting survives TOSI.
Practitioners who bill provincial health insurance receive payment statements that must reconcile to reported revenue — mismatches are the single most common CRA query in this sector.
Tax on split income has closed most family dividend planning, but a spouse genuinely working in the practice can still be paid a reasonable salary for real work performed.
Because passive income above $50,000 grinds the small business deduction, a practice retaining profit needs its investment portfolio structured with that threshold in mind.
None of this is charged as extra advice. It is simply what a properly prepared file for Family Doctors & GPs includes, at the fixed fee agreed up front.
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Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Tailored compliance, tracking, and tax solutions for Family Doctors & GPs businesses.
Transparent, fixed-fee Family Doctors & GPs pricing with zero hidden fees. Pay only after your Family Doctors & GPs work is completed and filed.
T2 returns for Medical Professional Corporations (MPCs), mixed-billing exemptions, and CRA professional audits defense.
T5013 returns for healthcare partnerships, clinic cost sharing, associate payout structures, and partner K-1 allocations.
T3010 filings for medical foundations, clinic trust accounts, NPO hospital setups, and financial compliance audits.
T3 trust returns, corporate tax-free dividend flow, physician succession planning, and family trust allocations.
Monthly ledger reconciliations, Jane App / Oscar EMR billing integrations, associate fee splits tracking, and clinic overhead cost tracking.
Corporate compilation engagement report for clinic finance loans, professional balance sheet compilations, and trial balance updates.
T1 filings for physicians and associates. Inclusions: medical professional expenses, travel logs, and professional corporation flowthrough.
Audit of tax-exempt clinical services vs retail medical sales, Input Tax Credit (ITC) optimization, and Netfile submissions.
See how our expert Family Doctors & GPs tax and accounting services have helped Canadian businesses save money and stay compliant.
A physiotherapy group in Windsor, Ontario was under review over a previous accountant with no experience of this sector. The file closed in 7 weeks with $74,000 of proposed tax cleared.
A chiropractic clinic in Regina, Saskatchewan was 11 weeks from a deadline while carrying a chart of accounts that told the owner nothing about family doctors & gps margin. Filing complete and on time avoided roughly $83,000 in penalties.
An incentive review at a two-dentist practice in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan found provincial credits left unclaimed alongside every federal filing and recovered $62,000 across 3 open years.
The ledger at a veterinary hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba could not support its own filings because of seasonal revenue reported without matching the costs that produced it. Rebuilding it surfaced $9,000 in unclaimed input tax.
A family transfer at a medical imaging clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia would have been fully taxable because of no valuation on file to support the price the parties had agreed. Restructuring deferred $875,000.
An optometry practice in Guelph, Ontario was overpaying instalments because of equipment and asset classes assigned by guesswork rather than the CCA schedule. Rebasing them returned $118,000 to the business.
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Direct answers to what Canadian business owners actually ask before hiring an accountant.
Registration becomes mandatory once taxable supplies pass $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters, and the obligation starts almost immediately rather than at the next year-end. Registering voluntarily below that threshold is often worthwhile when you are buying equipment, because it makes the tax on those purchases recoverable.
Six years from the end of the tax year the records relate to. That covers invoices, receipts, bank statements, payroll records and the working papers behind the return. Records supporting the purchase of a capital asset must be kept six years past the year the asset is finally sold.
The late-filing penalty is 5% of the balance owing plus 1% for each full month the return is late, to a maximum of twelve months. A second late filing within three years doubles those figures. Interest compounds daily from the balance-due date regardless of when the return is filed.
Yes, in proportion to business use, and the logbook is what supports it. The CRA accepts a full-year log, or a three-month sample backed by a complete prior-year log. Travel between home and a regular place of work is personal; travel between work locations is business.
Incorporation usually pays once profit consistently exceeds what the owner draws personally, because the retained amount is taxed at small business rates rather than personal rates. Where the entire profit is withdrawn each year, incorporation often costs more in filing and compliance than it saves.
Ratios that sit outside sector norms, repeated losses, large or round-numbered expense claims, and mismatches between filed slips and reported income. Most reviews are resolved on documentation alone, which is why contemporaneous records matter more than the size of any single claim.
The CRA looks at control, ownership of tools, chance of profit and risk of loss rather than what the contract is titled. Where a worker is reclassified as an employee, the unremitted CPP, EI and withholding land on the payer, together with penalties and interest.
Individuals pay quarterly instalments once net tax owing passes $3,000 in the current year and either of the two preceding years. Corporations generally pay monthly, with many small CCPCs eligible for quarterly instalments instead. Basing them on a current-year estimate avoids overpaying after a strong year.
Our Pay After Service model means you review and approve all deliverables before making any payment. We prepare your returns or financial files, you review them, and only then do you pay. This ensures 100% satisfaction.
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The short answer comes straight from our working notes: Compilation engagements follow CSRS 4200, which requires a basis-of-accounting note describing exactly how the statements were prepared. Lenders read that note, and an omitted one is the fastest way to have a financing package sent back. How that plays out on your file depends on the specifics, which is exactly what the engagement is for.
In our files, this is the deciding factor: An expense is deductible where it was incurred to earn income and is reasonable in the circumstances. The business-use portion must be supported, which for vehicles means a logbook. The CRA rarely argues that an expense category is wrong; it argues that the proportion claimed was never substantiated. A tax professional applies it to your numbers before submission.
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Yes. Rent you receive is taxable income. You report the gross rents, subtract deductible expenses such as mortgage interest, property tax, insurance, utilities you pay, repairs, condominium fees and advertising, and the net rental profit is added to your other income and taxed at your marginal rate. There is no separate rental tax rate. A rental loss can generally offset other income where the property is genuinely rented at fair market value.
Zoning matters because assessment and taxation follow a property's classification and actual use. Residential, multi-residential, commercial, industrial and farm classes carry different municipal rates, so rezoning or a genuine change of use can move a property into a class taxed differently. Assessed value can also reflect development potential permitted by the zoning. Ask your municipality and your provincial assessment authority what a rezoning would do to the class and the bill before you apply.
It can. Property tax follows assessed value, and a shed, deck, finished basement or addition that adds usable space or quality usually raises the assessment at the next valuation. Provincial assessment authorities pick up permitted work through building permit data, then your municipality applies its own rate to the new value. Property tax is municipal, not a CRA matter, so ask your municipality and read your assessment notice before you build.
Property tax on a new build starts once the property is assessed as complete and occupiable, not at closing. Until then you are billed on the land alone, and a supplementary or omitted assessment later covers the building, often arriving months afterwards and back-dated to the occupancy or completion date, so budget for a catch-up bill. Separately, a newly built home is generally subject to GST or HST, with a new housing rebate available in some cases.
Only for specific purposes. Fees paid to collect or establish a right to salary, wages, a pension, severance or support amounts, and fees to object to or appeal a CRA assessment, are claimed in the deductions section of the T1, on the line the CRA's guide names. Legal costs of earning business or rental income belong on the T2125 or the rental statement. Fees to acquire property are usually added to its cost instead of deducted.
A T4E is the slip Service Canada issues for Employment Insurance and certain related benefits. It shows the total benefits paid, income tax already withheld, any benefits you had to repay and any benefit repayment required because of your income level. Report the amounts on your personal return on the line for Employment Insurance and other benefits, not on the employment income line — EI benefits are taxable but they are not employment income. Keep the slip even where no tax was withheld, because the benefits remain taxable and the CRA already holds a copy.
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Udit Gupta has over 15 years of experience helping corporations and business owners with corporate structuring, corporate tax filing, bookkeeping, payroll, GST/HST, cross-border tax and CRA representation. Big 4 trained at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia, he founded his accounting practice in 2014 to serve entrepreneurs, startups and non-resident business owners across Canada. View full member bio.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — member 521458 · Malaysian Institute of Accountants — member CA 44667 · Ex Big 4: Ernst & Young, Deloitte · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), completed 19 Dec 2023 · In-Depth GST/HST Part I, 12 Jul 2022 · Part II, 5 Jul 2023
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