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Tax Filings Canada provides low-cost, fixed-fee lender reporting across Canada: cash-flow forecasts, budgets, KPI dashboards and board-ready reporting, built for scaling businesses that need finance leadership without the headcount, with payment only after your work is complete.
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A rolling thirteen-week cash-flow forecast is the single most used tool in our advisory work — it is what keeps payroll safe through a slow quarter. We quote lender reporting as one low-cost fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
No two lender reporting files are identical, but the rules that govern them are stable. A tax specialist who works with Lender Reporting weekly keeps returning to the same anchors, and they are set out below.
The foundation is simple to state and easy to trip over: Interest is deductible where the borrowed money is used to earn income from a business or property, and the test is what the money actually funded. The paper trail linking each borrowing to its use is what supports the deduction when the loan and the spending sit years apart.
The detail that surprises most owners comes next. Amounts received for services not yet performed are included in income when received, with a reserve available only where the statutory conditions are met. A cash balance built out of customer prepayments can carry a tax liability inside it, which is why deferred revenue is not a financing source. Calendars matter more than most people expect in lender reporting, and this is the rule that proves it: Working capital, not profit, is what constrains growth. A business scaling receivables faster than it collects them runs out of cash while the income statement looks healthy.
The practical upshot is simple: every one of these rules has a version that helps you and a version that costs you, and which one applies depends on choices made before filing. That is precisely the ground a tax specialist covers. Here is what to have on hand so the lender reporting work starts moving on day one.
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The structure at a subscription business tracking churn in Moncton, New Brunswick no longer fitted the business, and pricing set by feel, with no visibility into margin by service line showed it. Rebuilding it saves $60,000 a year.
Collections had begun against a clinic group acquiring a competitor in Calgary, Alberta over 4 years of unfiled returns. Bringing them current cut $116,000 from the balance.
Due diligence at a family business planning succession in Hamilton, Ontario surfaced a single shareholder holding every share, with no room to multiply the exemption. Restructuring the sale saved $520,000 against the original terms.
A business whose margin varies by service line in Brampton, Ontario had never tested its work against the eligibility rules. The resulting $67,000 claim was accepted without adjustment.
A $140,000 reassessment was proposed against a company hiring its first finance staff in Barrie, Ontario following an owner making hiring decisions on last quarter’s bank balance. The documented response reduced it to nil.
A manufacturer planning a plant expansion in Vancouver, British Columbia expanded into a second province carrying a monthly report that stopped at the income statement, with no balance sheet and no cash view. Every obligation was set up in advance and $155,000 of cash released.
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Lender Reporting starts at a fixed fee quoted before any work begins. The quote is locked at the outset and does not change mid-engagement, and you pay only after you have reviewed and approved the deliverable. Compare every plan on our transparent pricing page.
At minimum: prior-year returns and notices of assessment, your bank and credit-card statements for the fiscal period, payroll records if you have employees, and GST/HST filings. We send a checklist tailored to your situation after the free 15-minute call.
Most engagements are completed within 3 to 5 business days once your documents are complete. Catch-up work covering multiple years takes longer, and we tell you the realistic timeline before you commit rather than after.
We respond on your behalf at no extra charge for any return we prepared. Every figure we file is supported by documentation retained in your file, which is what turns a CRA review from a crisis into correspondence. See how our CRA audit representation works.
Yes. Late filing penalties compound at 5% of the balance owing plus 1% per month, so the cost of waiting is real. We prioritise catch-up work and, where eligible, file under the CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program to reduce penalties.
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We work across construction, healthcare, e-commerce, professional services, restaurants, real estate, transportation, technology and non-profits, each with its own deduction profile and CRA scrutiny patterns. See all industries we serve.
Software applies the rules you already know about. An experienced tax accountant finds the ones you do not: capital cost allowance timing, the small business deduction threshold, shareholder loan repayment rules, and TOSI exposure on family dividends. The fee is usually smaller than the deductions it surfaces.
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The short answer comes straight from our working notes: A fractional CFO covers forecasting, banking relationships and pricing decisions at a fraction of a $200,000-plus full-time hire, which is why most businesses under $20M revenue use one. How that plays out on your file depends on the specifics, which is exactly what the engagement is for.
Bank covenants are tested on ratios, not on profit. A business can be comfortably profitable and still breach a working-capital covenant. That is the part most owners have not heard before they sit down with us, and it usually changes what they do next.
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For the 2025 tax year the filing and payment deadline is 30 April 2026. If you or your spouse were self-employed, the filing deadline moves to 15 June 2026, but any balance owing is still due 30 April 2026. Interest starts the day after the payment deadline, and a late-filing penalty applies on top when a return with a balance owing is filed late. File on time even with nothing owing, because income-tested benefits are recalculated from the filed return.
Rent on your home is not deductible on a Canadian return. Two situations change that. Self-employed people, and employees who meet the work-space-in-the-home conditions, may claim the share of rent tied to the area used for work. Several provinces also run a property tax or rent based credit, applied for on the provincial schedule filed with your T1, where rent paid affects the amount. Keep receipts and your landlord's details either way.
CRA online filing for 2025 returns opened on 23 February 2026 and stays open until 29 January 2027. You can prepare a return before the service opens, but it cannot be transmitted, and slips such as T4s and T5s often arrive only in late February. Filing early makes sense if you expect a refund. If you expect a balance owing, you can still file early and pay by 30 April 2026.
Your marginal tax rate is the rate on your next dollar of income, not on your income as a whole. Federally for 2026 that is 14%, 20.5%, 26%, 29% or 33% depending on the bracket you have reached, and your province's rate stacks on top, so an Ontario earner in the 26% federal band adds the Ontario rate for their own band. The two sets of thresholds rarely line up, so add the two rates together.
For the 2025 tax year the balance was due 30 April 2026, including for self-employed filers whose return itself was not due until 15 June 2026. Interest runs on anything unpaid after that date and compounds daily, so the amount grows while you wait. If you cannot pay in full, contact the CRA to set up a payment arrangement; it does not stop interest, but it holds off collection action while you keep to it.
Your employer withholds income tax, CPP and EI. For 2026, CPP is 5.95% on earnings between the $3,500 basic exemption and the $74,600 ceiling, plus CPP2 at 4% on earnings up to $85,000, and EI is $1.63 per $100 of insurable earnings up to $68,900. Income tax withheld depends on your pay, your province and the credits you claimed on the personal tax credits return given to your employer. Federal rates for 2026 start at 14%.
In Canada, tax revenue funds public services rather than a single account. Federal revenue pays for elderly benefits, the Canada child benefit, health and social transfers to the provinces, defence, debt interest and federal operations; employment insurance is funded separately by premiums. Provincial and municipal taxes fund health care delivery, schools, roads, policing and waste collection. Actual amounts appear each year in the federal budget and the Public Accounts of Canada, and in each province's budget.
Sometimes. Taxpayer relief can cancel penalties and interest where the delay came from circumstances beyond your control, a serious illness or death in the family, a CRA error or processing delay, or an inability to pay. Inconvenience is not enough. You apply in writing on form RC4288, with dates, documents and a reason for each period claimed. There is a limit on how far back a request can reach, so apply early. The tax itself is never cancelled.
Slips issued to you, including T5s, appear under tax information slips in CRA My Account once the issuer files them, usually by early March for the prior year. You can also pull them into most certified software with Auto-fill my return. A slip that has not been filed yet will not show, so report the income from your own records if you know the amount. Missing a slip does not excuse leaving the income off.
Basic groceries are zero-rated, so no GST/HST is charged on staples such as milk, bread, vegetables, meat and eggs. Tax applies to food outside that category: restaurant and takeaway meals, carbonated drinks, candy, snack foods, and many single servings sold ready to eat. The line turns on how the food is packaged and sold rather than on how healthy it is, and the tax charged is the combined rate in the province of supply.
Most lottery and casual gambling winnings, gifts and inheritances, GST/HST credit and Canada Child Benefit payments, TFSA growth and withdrawals, and life insurance death benefits are not taxable. Some non-taxable items still need a line on the return: the sale of a principal residence must be reported even when the whole gain is exempt, and workers' compensation and social assistance are reported and then deducted. When you are unsure, report the amount and claim the offset.
A bonus is employment income and is taxed at your marginal rate, the same as salary. Your employer withholds tax when it is paid, and that withholding can be more or less than the tax actually owing, so the difference settles on your return. The usual way to cut the tax legally is to have the bonus paid straight into your RRSP where you have room, which lets the employer reduce the withholding. Form T1213 can also lower withholding; the CRA takes several weeks to process one, so file it in the autumn before the year you want it to apply to.
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Ex Big 4 — Ernst & Young, Deloitte · International & cross-border tax specialist · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program) · Chartered accountant, ICAI & MIA
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
Editorial policy. Every page is researched against primary sources — the Income Tax Act, CRA publications and CPA Canada guidance — and every rate or threshold is stated with the tax year it applies to.
