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Tax Filings Canada provides low-cost, fixed-fee sole proprietor bookkeeping across Canada: T5013 partnership returns, T2125 business statements and partner allocations, built for partnerships and sole proprietors, with payment only after your work is complete.
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Sole proprietors report business income on the T2125 inside the T1 — the June 15 filing extension does not move the April 30 payment date. Our sole proprietor bookkeeping engagement is priced as a low-cost flat fee, so the cost is known before the work starts.
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One rule does more work than the rest combined, so it goes first. Transferring a proprietorship into a corporation can be done on a tax-deferred basis under section 85. The deferral holds only if the election is filed on time with the correct elected amounts.
From there, the file turns on a second question, and the rule behind it reads as follows. A partner’s adjusted cost base in the partnership interest is reduced by draws and increased by allocated income. A negative ACB triggers an immediate capital gain. Ask what a reviewer will want to see, and the answer sits in this rule: Partnership income is allocated to partners according to the partnership agreement, and an allocation the agreement does not support can be reallocated by the CRA.
What this means for you depends entirely on facts we have not seen yet — which is the honest answer, and the reason a tax consultant starts every sole proprietor bookkeeping engagement with questions rather than conclusions. Gather whatever records touch the numbers — statements, ledgers, prior-year filings — and we take it from there.
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A $70,000 reassessment was proposed against a retiring partner leaving a professional partnership in London, Ontario. It followed partner draws that had pushed one partner’s adjusted cost base negative. The documented response reduced it to nil.
A review notice arrived at a retiring partner leaving a professional partnership in London, Ontario, covering sole proprietor bookkeeping for two tax years. The auditor's working position was an adjustment of $70,000. It was driven by partner draws that had pushed one partner’s adjusted cost base negative. Rather than negotiate, we rebuilt the record. We restructured the draw policy so no partner’s adjusted cost base went negative again, and reported the deemed gain correctly for the year it arose. We then submitted a point-by-point response that answered each proposed adjustment with the document behind it. The auditor accepted the documented position and closed the review without adjustment, protecting $70,000 and leaving the prior filings undisturbed.
Collections had begun against a freelance developer in Lethbridge, Alberta over 4 years of unfiled returns. Bringing them current cut $90,000 from the balance.
By the time a freelance developer in Lethbridge, Alberta called, 4 years were outstanding. The CRA had assessed on estimates. Underneath it sat an incorporation completed without the section 85 election, triggering an unnecessary gain. We reconstructed the records year by year. We drafted the allocation, admission and withdrawal terms into a written agreement before the next partner was admitted. Each filing replaced an arbitrary assessment with a real one. The account is current. Filing on real numbers rather than CRA estimates reduced the balance by $90,000, and a relief application addressed part of the accumulated interest.
A three-partner medical clinic in Burnaby, British Columbia was 5 weeks from a deadline. The file also carried three partners operating on a handshake, with no written agreement covering allocations or a departure. Filing complete and on time avoided roughly $41,000 in penalties.
A three-partner medical clinic in Burnaby, British Columbia came to us 5 weeks before its filing deadline. The file came with three partners operating on a handshake, with no written agreement covering allocations or a departure. A late filing would have triggered a penalty of roughly $41,000 before interest. We worked backwards from the deadline. We filed the section 85 election with correct elected amounts and rolled the assets in without a taxable disposition. We prioritised the items that actually gated the filing and deferred everything that did not. The return was filed on time and complete. The $41,000 penalty never arose, and the compliance calendar we set means the next deadline is scheduled rather than discovered.
A second opinion for a proprietor whose spouse works in the business in Toronto, Ontario recovered $41,000 a year. It found a profit split applied in practice that the written agreement did not support in prior filings.
A proprietor whose spouse works in the business in Toronto, Ontario asked for a second opinion on sole proprietor bookkeeping. That followed three years of rising tax. The review found a profit split applied in practice that the written agreement did not support. We built the comparison first: current structure against two alternatives. Then we filed the outstanding T5013 returns with full partner allocations and requested penalty relief on the basis of the first-time nature of the failure. First-year saving of $41,000, with the same benefit recurring. Every position taken is documented and supported in the file.
A food-truck sole proprietorship in Brampton, Ontario had never tested its work against the eligibility rules. The resulting $133,000 claim was accepted without adjustment.
A food-truck sole proprietorship in Brampton, Ontario assumed the credits did not apply to a business its size. Partner draws that had pushed one partner’s adjusted cost base negative meant they had applied all along. We identified the qualifying activity and built the documentation to support it. Then we kept the proprietorship on a December 31 fiscal period and moved the year-end question into the incorporation plan where it could actually be answered. $133,000 recovered. Because the eligibility analysis is on file, the same claim can be repeated each year with a fraction of the effort.
The structure at an unincorporated trades business in Calgary, Alberta no longer fitted the business. A partnership that crossed the T5013 threshold two years before anyone noticed showed it. Rebuilding it saves $45,000 a year.
The structure at an unincorporated trades business in Calgary, Alberta dated from years earlier. It had been set up for a business that no longer existed. A partnership that crossed the T5013 threshold two years before anyone noticed had become expensive. We rewrote the partnership allocation to match how the practice actually operated, effective for the following fiscal year. The reorganisation used the rollover provisions rather than a taxable transfer, so no tax fell due on the restructuring itself. $45,000 of annual saving, achieved on a tax-deferred basis. The minute book, elections and valuations are all in the file.
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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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Partnership income is allocated to partners according to the partnership agreement, and an allocation the agreement does not support can be reallocated by the CRA. 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 honest starting point is this: A partner’s adjusted cost base in the partnership interest is reduced by draws and increased by allocated income. A negative ACB triggers an immediate capital gain. Everything else we would tell you is tailoring, and tailoring requires seeing your file.
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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.
A balance owing means the tax withheld or paid by instalments during the year came to less than the tax your return calculates. Common causes are two employers each withholding as though theirs was your only job, self-employment or gig income with nothing withheld, investment or rental income, an RRSP or RRIF withdrawal where only the base amount was held back, pension and OAS payments taken without deductions, or a benefit you have to repay.
There is no standard amount. The refund equals tax withheld and instalments paid, less the tax calculated on the return after deductions and credits, so two people on the same salary can end up with very different results. Payroll withholding that ran higher than needed, RRSP deductions, tuition and medical claims and spousal transfers all push the figure up. The notice of assessment confirms the final number once the return is processed.
Yes, once you are registered, because consulting is a taxable service. A registrant charges the rate for the client's province: 13% in Ontario, 15% in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island, 14% in Nova Scotia, and 5% GST in the western provinces and the territories, for 2026. Registration is required once taxable revenue passes $30,000 across four consecutive calendar quarters or within one quarter. Below that you may register voluntarily to claim input tax credits.
A business lets you deduct the real costs of earning income, such as supplies, subcontractors, software and a reasonable share of home office, phone and vehicle costs, so you are taxed on profit rather than revenue, and a loss can often offset other income. Incorporating adds the federal small business rate of 9% on the first $500,000 of active business income for 2026, plus control over when you take money out. Personal spending dressed up as a business expense is not deductible.
No. A passport application or renewal fee is a personal cost, and personal costs are not deductible even when the trip is for work. There is no credit for it either. A self-employed person cannot put it on the T2125, and an employee cannot claim it as an employment expense. Airfare, accommodation and a portion of meals on a genuine business trip are deductible, and those are the costs to track instead.
Your notice of assessment shows the final refund figure, and it appears in CRA My Account under the tax year, usually before the deposit lands. The refund calculated on your filed return is only an estimate until the CRA assesses it, and a review of a credit, or an amount you owe elsewhere, can change it. Register for direct deposit and the money arrives roughly two weeks after an online filing.
If you supply taxable goods or services in Canada you must register for GST/HST and charge it once you stop being a small supplier. For 2026 the threshold is $30,000 of taxable revenue, unindexed and the same for 2025, tested two ways. Cross it over four consecutive calendar quarters and you stay a small supplier to the end of the following month, then register. Cross it within a single quarter and status ends on the sale that takes you over, which is itself taxable.
Report it on your return even though no slip exists. Occasional employment-type pay goes on the employment income line, while work you did on your own account belongs on a T2125 as business income, where the related expenses can be claimed against it. Keep a simple log of dates, payers and amounts, and hold the records six years from the end of the last tax year they relate to. Correcting an omission voluntarily costs far less than being found.
Payroll withholding is only an estimate. Your employer taxes each pay period as though the year continues unchanged, using nothing but the credits on your TD1. Anything payroll cannot take into account — RRSP contributions, donations, medical costs, a second job, a mid-year job change — settles only when you file, and a bonus can leave a gap as well, because the tax withheld on it is only an estimate of what the extra income will ultimately attract. Over-withholding gives you a refund; under-withholding leaves a balance owing. A refund is your own money coming back.
There is no federal credit for children's sport, arts or activity fees, and Ontario's own children's activity credit ended years ago, so hockey, dance and camp registration is not deductible on your return. A few provinces still run their own activity credit, so check your province's information on canada.ca. Day camps and after-school care that let you work may instead qualify as child care expenses, which are normally claimed by the lower-income spouse.
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. He is Big 4 trained, at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia. In 2014 he founded his accounting practice 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.
Sources. CRA — Sole proprietorships and partnerships · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)
