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Need sales reconciliation in Canada? Tax Filings Canada delivers monthly reconciliations, GST/HST-ready ledgers and receipt capture for owner-managed businesses and growing teams — affordable fixed fees quoted up front, and you pay only after you approve the work.
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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 sales reconciliation as one affordable fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
What actually separates a clean sales reconciliation file from a messy one? A working accountant would point to a short list of rules, and these notes walk through it.
Before anything else, one rule sets the frame. Personal expenses run through a corporate account are shareholder benefits, taxable to the shareholder personally whether or not they were ever labelled as such.
Right behind it comes a rule owners rarely hear about until it bites: 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. The final point is less about opportunity and more about what happens when a file is challenged: 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.
None of this requires you to become an expert — that is what engaging a tax consultant is for. What it does require is recognizing that sales reconciliation will reward preparation over improvisation. Here is what to have on hand so the sales reconciliation work starts moving on day one.
The last note is about how we work rather than the rules: every engagement comes with a fixed fee agreed up front, a review with you before filing, and payment after — not before — the service.
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A subscription box retailer in Vancouver, British Columbia was overpaying instalments because of eighteen months of unreconciled transactions and a shoebox of receipts. Rebasing them returned $120,000 to the business.
Scaling exposed input tax credits claimed on receipts that had already been claimed once at a wedding photography studio in Lethbridge, Alberta. The back office was rebuilt to match, freeing $126,000.
4 years of filings at a courier subcontractor paid by the drop in Barrie, Ontario had never claimed the incentives the work qualified for. The review recovered $94,000.
7 years of returns were outstanding at a mobile pet-grooming company in Victoria, British Columbia, on top of three years of returns filed off numbers nobody could trace back to a bank statement. Filing on real numbers removed $20,500 of assessed tax.
A specialty coffee roaster in Regina, Saskatchewan was carrying $70,000 of penalties and interest from a receivables list that included invoices collected eleven months earlier. A relief application cancelled it.
The ledger at an online seller reconciling three payment processors in London, Ontario could not support its own filings because of sales recorded from bank deposits, so processor fees, chargebacks and refunds appeared nowhere in the ledger. Rebuilding it surfaced $18,500 in unclaimed input tax.
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Sales Reconciliation 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.
Yes. We are a cloud-based practice serving every province and territory, so your location does not change the price or the service. Browse our coverage across Canada to find your city.
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.
Our sales reconciliation services include complete filing, compliance management, and strategic advice customized to Canadian tax laws.
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The honest starting point is this: The CRA requires business records to be kept for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to, in a form that allows the return to be verified. Where records cannot support the return, the CRA is entitled to assess on its own estimate — and the burden of disproving that estimate falls on the taxpayer. Everything else we would tell you is tailoring, and tailoring requires seeing your file.
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. We flag this early with every client it touches, because finding it out at filing time leaves you far fewer options than finding it out now.
The questions Canadians actually search on this topic, answered plainly. Browse every question in the Canadian tax answers directory.
A tax deduction is an amount subtracted from your income before tax is worked out, so it reduces the income being taxed rather than the tax bill directly. Its worth depends on your marginal rate: the higher the rate, the more the deduction saves. Common examples are RRSP contributions, child care costs, union dues, moving expenses and business expenses. Credits work the other way, reducing the tax calculated on that income.
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.
There is no single percentage. Your employer applies the federal withholding table plus the table for your province or territory, using pay frequency, your annual rate of pay and the amounts claimed on your federal and provincial TD1 forms, then adds CPP contributions and EI premiums until the annual maximums are met. Pension contributions, union dues and benefit premiums come off separately. The CRA's Payroll Deductions Online Calculator reproduces the exact figures shown on your stub.
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.
No single percentage applies. Income tax is charged in brackets, so your average rate sits well below your top rate; federal rates for 2026 run from 14% up to 33%, and your province adds its own brackets on top. Employees also pay CPP of 5.95% on earnings above the $3,500 exemption to $74,600 and EI of $1.63 per $100 to $68,900 for 2026. The CRA payroll deductions online calculator gives your own figure.
For the 2025 tax year, personal tax was payable by 30 April 2026, including for the self-employed, whose filing deadline was 15 June 2026. If you pay by instalments, the CRA sets quarterly due dates in March, June, September and December and posts a reminder showing the suggested amounts. A corporation pays its balance two months after its fiscal year end, or three months for an eligible CCPC claiming the small business deduction.
A refund liability is the amount a business expects to pay back to customers for returns, rebates, price adjustments or unused credits, recognised when the sale is recorded rather than when the money goes out. Revenue is reported net of that estimate, and a separate asset is set up for goods expected to come back. Revisit the estimate each period end against actual return rates, and adjust the sales tax reported on refunded sales as well.
It is the mailing address the CRA holds for you, the one shown on your return and used for notices of assessment, benefit letters and cheques. Keep it current: mail sent to an old address still counts as delivered, and benefit payments can be held up when the CRA cannot reach you. Update it in My Account, by phone, or on your next return. A business address is tracked separately from a personal one.
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.
You remain responsible for what your return says, even when someone else prepared it, so the CRA assesses the tax, interest and penalties against you. A preparer who makes or participates in a false statement can face third-party penalties of their own, and may be liable to you for negligence, which is why engagement terms and professional insurance matter. Keep your source documents for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to.
Canada has no joint return, so your husband cannot claim you as a dependant the way US filers do. He can claim the spouse or common-law partner amount if your net income is low enough, and unused credits such as the age, disability, tuition and pension amounts can sometimes be transferred to him. Medical expenses and donations can also be pooled on one return. Both of you still file your own T1, reporting each other's net income.
All of it. No threshold lets cash go unreported: tips, side jobs, weekend work and cash sales are income the moment you earn them, and the CRA can reassess unreported amounts with penalties and interest. Keep a log of dates, amounts and payers, and deposit takings so records reconcile. Self-employed cash earnings go on Form T2125 with your T1 return; cash tips earned as an employee are employment income, not business income, and belong on the other-employment-income line of the T1 instead.
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.
