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The CRA requires business records to be kept for six years from the end of the last tax year they relate to. We quote past-due bookkeeping as one economical fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
Before you hand past-due bookkeeping to anyone, it is worth knowing what the work actually turns on.
If you remember one thing from this page, make it this: Bank feeds are not a bookkeeping system. Auto-categorised transactions still need reconciliation to statements, because a duplicated feed entry is indistinguishable from a real expense on the face of the ledger.
It would be simpler if the story ended there, but a second rule enters almost immediately. Cash-basis records are not acceptable for a corporation. Income must be reported on the accrual basis, with receivables and payables recognised when they arise rather than when the money moves. The documentation side matters just as much. Personal expenses run through a corporate account are shareholder benefits, taxable to the shareholder personally whether or not they were ever labelled as such.
What this means for you: the value in past-due bookkeeping is not the filing itself, it is having an accountant apply these rules to your numbers before anything is submitted. Think of this list as the raw material an accountant works from on past-due bookkeeping.
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A two-location cafe in Guelph, Ontario was 8 weeks from a deadline while carrying a receivables list that included invoices collected eleven months earlier. Filing complete and on time avoided roughly $39,500 in penalties.
Closing the books at a subscription box retailer in Vancouver, British Columbia took 8 weeks because of a bookkeeping file where owner draws, payroll and supplier payments all landed in the same account. It now takes 9 days.
Remittances at a small law practice in Winnipeg, Manitoba were chronically late because of eighteen months of unreconciled transactions and a shoebox of receipts. Fixing the schedule refunded $44,000.
A second opinion for an equipment rental yard in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan found meals and entertainment coded at full cost with the input tax credit claimed on the whole amount in prior filings and recovered $36,000 a year.
Scaling exposed sales recorded from bank deposits, so processor fees, chargebacks and refunds appeared nowhere in the ledger at a specialty coffee roaster in Regina, Saskatchewan. The back office was rebuilt to match, freeing $141,000.
A food-truck operator running two seasonal units in Windsor, Ontario faced a $14,500 proposed reassessment after three years of returns filed off numbers nobody could trace back to a bank statement. We rebuilt the documentation and the adjustment was withdrawn in full.
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Past-Due Bookkeeping 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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Meals and entertainment are deductible at 50 percent of the lesser of the amount paid and a reasonable amount under subsection 67.1, and the recoverable share of the GST/HST on those costs is restricted in the same proportion, with the excess recaptured. Coding them at full value overstates both the deduction and the credit. That is the part most owners have not heard before they sit down with us, and it usually changes what they do next.
The short answer comes straight from our working notes: Foreign-currency amounts have to be converted at the exchange rate for the day the transaction occurred. Applying one year-end rate to twelve months of purchases distorts the recorded cost and hides the exchange gain or loss on settlement. How that plays out on your file depends on the specifics, which is exactly what the engagement is for.
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Multiply the pre-tax price by the rate for the province of supply. On a $100 purchase in 2026 that is $13.00 in Ontario (13%), $14.00 in Nova Scotia (14%), and $15.00 in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador or Prince Edward Island (15%). In the non-participating provinces and the three territories only the 5% GST applies, so $5.00, plus any provincial sales tax billed separately.
GST or HST is calculated on the selling price of a taxable supply and shown separately on the invoice. Place-of-supply rules decide which province's rate applies, and that is usually where the customer receives the goods or service rather than where you operate. A registrant remits the tax collected less input tax credits for GST or HST paid on business purchases, so the amount sent to the CRA with each return is the net figure, not everything collected.
Divide the total by one plus the rate. At Ontario's 13% in 2026, a $113 tax-included total is $113 divided by 1.13, or $100 before tax and $13 of HST. Use 1.14 in Nova Scotia, 1.15 in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and 1.05 where only the 5% GST applies. Multiplying the total by 13 over 113 gives the Ontario tax directly.
Three are standard: federal and provincial income tax withheld at source, CPP contributions (QPP in Quebec) and EI premiums. For 2026 an employee pays CPP of 5.95% on earnings above the $3,500 exemption up to $74,600, second additional CPP of 4% on earnings up to $85,000, and EI of $1.63 per $100 up to $68,900 of insurable earnings. Anything else — pension, union dues, benefit premiums, garnishments — comes from your employer’s own arrangements.
Start from gross pay, take off federal and provincial income tax on your taxable income, then take off CPP and EI. For 2026, employee CPP is 5.95% on earnings between the $3,500 exemption and the $74,600 ceiling, with CPP2 at 4% up to $85,000, and EI is $1.63 per $100 of insurable earnings up to $68,900. Federal rates for 2026 run from 14% to 33%. The CRA's payroll deductions online calculator does the arithmetic.
Interest is normally an exempt financial service, so you do not charge GST/HST on interest you earn or on interest you add to an overdue invoice. Exempt supplies differ from zero-rated ones: zero-rated sales are taxed at 0% and still let you recover input tax credits, while exempt supplies do not. If most of your revenue is exempt, your registration position and credit recovery both change, so review the CRA's financial services guidance.
No. GST/HST you collect is not revenue: you hold it on the CRA's behalf and remit it. Report sales net of the tax on your T2125 or corporate financial statements, and post the tax collected to a liability account rather than income. Including it overstates both revenue and profit. If you are not registered and charge no tax, gross sales are simply the amounts you billed your customers.
Yes. GST and HST are one federal tax, so a registrant claims tax paid anywhere in Canada on the same return, at whatever rate applied where the supply was made. An Alberta business billed 13% HST on an Ontario hotel stay recovers the full 13%, as long as the expense relates to commercial activity and the invoice shows the tax. Provincial retail taxes are different: British Columbia PST, Saskatchewan PST and Manitoba RST are costs, not credits.
No. Interest and late-payment charges on an overdue account are not payment for a separate supply, so no GST/HST is added, even though the original invoice carried tax. A charge that is really payment for something you actually supply, such as a re-delivery, a restocking service or an administrative service, is taxable on its own terms. Where the amount is purely a penalty for paying late, bill it without tax.
Most bank service charges are exempt financial services, so no GST/HST is added to them. Monthly account fees, overdraft interest, transfer fees and transaction charges normally carry no tax at all. Some items billed by a bank are taxable, such as safe deposit box rental or certain administrative and safekeeping services. Your statement itemises any tax charged, and only tax actually shown there can be claimed as an input tax credit on a GST/HST return.
A transmitter number identifies whoever sends information returns, such as T4 or T5 slips, to the CRA electronically. Many filers never need one, because internet file transfer accepts a web access code tied to the business number on the return. If you transmit for several businesses or use software that demands the identifier, request it through the CRA's electronic services helpdesk. Start from the CRA's pages on filing information returns electronically, which set out what each return type requires.
A few. First-time buyers can claim the home buyers' amount for the year of purchase, withdraw from an RRSP under the Home Buyers' Plan and repay it over time, and save in an FHSA, which allows $8,000 a year up to a $40,000 lifetime limit. A GST/HST new housing rebate may apply on a newly built or substantially renovated home, and several provinces and cities refund part of the land transfer tax. Mortgage interest on your own home is not deductible.
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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.
