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Yes — nil corporate tax return can be handled entirely online. Tax Filings Canada covers the T2 return with full GIFI schedules and every provincial filing that applies for incorporated businesses and CCPCs at economical fixed fees, pay-after-service.
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A CCPC's T2 is due six months after year-end, but the balance owing is due within two months — three for many small CCPCs claiming the small business deduction. We quote nil corporate tax return as one economical fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
There is a version of nil corporate tax return that runs smoothly and a version that turns into correspondence. The difference is rarely luck; it comes down to details any tax professional handling these files weekly learns to check first.
The starting point is not a strategy but a constraint: A review is won on documentation created at the time, not on explanations offered afterwards. The CRA asks for the source records behind a figure, and an unsupported claim is simply disallowed. Most reassessments we reverse are not the result of a wrong position — they are the result of a correct position with no contemporaneous paper trail behind it.
Pair that with the next rule and most of the confusion around nil corporate tax return disappears: A CCPC’s T2 is due six months after year-end, but the balance owing is due two months after year-end — three for many small CCPCs claiming the small business deduction. Filing on time does not stop interest running on an unpaid balance. Where clients most often get hurt is not the calculation but the follow-through, and the rule reads plainly. The 9% federal small business rate applies to the first $500,000 of active business income, and that limit is shared across associated corporations rather than available to each of them.
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A corporation paying instalments on prior-year figures in Vancouver, British Columbia had already been penalised over a small business limit quietly shared across three associated corporations nobody had mapped. A relief application cancelled $38,000 of that penalty.
Remittances at a franchise operator with three locations in Victoria, British Columbia were chronically late because of retained earnings building in the operating company with no plan for extracting them. Fixing the schedule refunded $57,000.
A corporation associated with a spouse-owned company in Surrey, British Columbia expanded into a second province carrying passive investment income that had crossed the $50,000 grind threshold unnoticed. Every obligation was set up in advance and $150,000 of cash released.
5 years of filings at a professional corporation in Lethbridge, Alberta had never claimed the incentives the work qualified for. The review recovered $95,000.
The CRA had assessed an incorporated trades business in Regina, Saskatchewan on estimates across 5 unfiled years. Real filings vacated $109,000 of that tax.
A desk review assessed a CCPC with two shareholders in Ottawa, Ontario $112,000 over a distribution treated as tax-free capital dividend with no election ever filed. Producing the records vacated it.
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Nil Corporate Tax Return 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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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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Let us give you the substance first and the caveats second. Taxable capital employed in Canada above $10 million reduces the small business limit, phasing it out completely at $50 million. The caveat is simply that facts on your file can shift the outcome, so treat this as the baseline rather than the final word.
You are asking the right question, and it has a real answer. Passive investment income above $50,000 in a year grinds the small business limit down by $5 for every $1 over, eliminating it entirely at $150,000. What we add on top of that is the paperwork discipline that makes the answer stand up if anyone ever asks you to prove it.
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A small business corporation pays the federal small business rate of 9% on its first $500,000 of active business income for 2026, plus the small business rate of the province where it has a permanent establishment. Above that limit, or once the small business deduction has been ground down, the federal general net rate of 15% for 2026 applies. An unincorporated business works differently: the profit goes on the owner's personal return and is taxed at personal marginal rates.
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.
For 2026 the CPP contribution rate is 5.95% for the employee and 5.95% for the employer, charged on pensionable earnings between the $3,500 basic exemption and the year's maximum pensionable earnings of $74,600. That caps each side at $4,230.45. Self-employed people pay both halves, up to $8,460.90 for 2026. Earnings above $74,600 attract a separate second contribution instead. The CRA resets these amounts every January, so always check the current year.
The route depends on the structure. A sole proprietor or partner reports business income on Form T2125 and files it with the personal T1 return; for the 2025 year the self-employed filing deadline was 15 June 2026, while any balance owing was due 30 April 2026. An incorporated business files a separate T2 corporate return for each fiscal year, due six months after that year end, on top of whatever the owner reports personally.
There are two federal rates. For 2026, active business income up to $500,000 earned by a Canadian-controlled private corporation is taxed at the federal small business rate of 9%; income above that limit, and the income of corporations that do not qualify, is taxed at the federal general net rate of 15%. Every province adds its own small business and general rate, so your combined rate depends on where the corporation has a permanent establishment. Investment income is taxed under different rules.
A small business corporation is a Canadian-controlled private corporation that uses substantially all of its assets in an active business carried on mainly in Canada. The label matters because it opens access to the small business deduction, which for 2026 applies the 9% federal rate to the first $500,000 of active business income, and to the lifetime capital gains exemption on a share sale. Holding companies and passive investment corporations usually fail the asset test.
No. Filing and paying are legal obligations, not choices. What is voluntary is the self-assessment design: you report your own income and calculate the tax, and the CRA verifies afterwards. Ignoring the obligation leads to penalties, compounding interest, an assessment raised without your figures, and collection action such as garnishing wages. Arguments that income tax does not apply to individuals have failed in court every time. If you have unfiled years, ask about the CRA's voluntary disclosure route before it contacts you.
A return filed online is usually assessed within about two weeks, and the notice of assessment appears in My Account as soon as that happens. Some returns are held for a review of slips, receipts or credits, which adds time without meaning anything is wrong. A non-resident return can take up to sixteen weeks. Register for My Account and email notifications so you see the notice the day it issues.
Use CRA My Account for personal tax, or My Business Account for a corporation, payroll or GST/HST number. Register with your social insurance number, date of birth and an amount from a recent return, or sign in through a participating bank. You can then view notices of assessment, slips the CRA holds, RRSP and TFSA room, balances owing and benefit payments. Multi-factor authentication is required, so set up your sign-in method before you need the information.
Yes. Cash tips are taxable income even when no employer records them and no slip is issued, and they are reported as other employment income on your T1 for the year received. Keep a simple daily log, because the CRA can estimate tips from sales, hours and industry patterns if it reviews your return. Reporting tips also builds CPP contributions, which raises the pension you eventually collect.
A tax filer is a person or business that files a return for a given year. The CRA and Statistics Canada use the term when they report how many returns were filed, counting each individual T1 or corporate T2 once. Being a filer is not the same as owing tax: many people file precisely because they expect nothing to pay, claiming refunds, credits and benefits, creating RRSP room, or carrying losses forward.
Yes. Rent received is taxable and goes on your T1 for the year, supported by a statement of rental revenue and expenses. Report the gross rent, then deduct the costs of earning it: mortgage interest, property tax, insurance, utilities you pay, repairs, condo fees, management and advertising. Capital cost allowance on the building is optional and often skipped. Report gross rent and expenses separately, not just the profit, and keep records six years.
Reviewed and fact-checked by Udit Gupta
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.
