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Late-filing penalties start at 5% of the balance owing plus 1% per month, and repeat late filers can see those figures double — catching up through the Voluntary Disclosures Program can cut the penalty side substantially. Monthly reconciliation is what keeps input tax credits claimable — unmatched receipts are the first thing disallowed in a GST/HST review. Our year-end bookkeeping cleanup engagement is priced as a pocket-friendly flat fee, so the cost is known before the work starts.
Clients often arrive treating year-end bookkeeping cleanup as a form-filling exercise. In practice, a tax services provider spends more time on judgment calls than on data entry — and those calls are what these notes cover.
If a client remembers only one point from this page, it should be this one: 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.
The next point is the one a tax services provider checks before quoting any timeline: Inventory is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, applied consistently. Changing method without CRA consent reopens prior years. Obsolete stock carried at cost overstates income, and the write-down is usually taken years after it was justified. Where clients most often get hurt is not the calculation but the follow-through, and the rule reads plainly. A small corporation still carries the full compliance set: T2, GST/HST, payroll, and the annual return with the incorporating jurisdiction. The annual corporate return is separate from the T2 and is the one most often forgotten, which can lead to administrative dissolution.
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Due diligence at a mobile pet-grooming company in Hamilton, Ontario surfaced retained cash well above what the business needed to operate. Restructuring the sale saved $195,000 against the original terms.
A mobile pet-grooming company in Hamilton, Ontario was preparing to sell. Due diligence surfaced retained cash well above what the business needed to operate. That would have reduced the price or killed the deal outright. We cleaned up the historical file. We recoded the meals and entertainment accounts to the statutory limit and reversed the over-claimed input tax credits before the next return went in. Then we prepared the due-diligence package the buyer's advisers actually asked for. The deal closed at the agreed price. $195,000 of tax was saved against the structure originally proposed, with no post-closing adjustment.
A $113,000 reassessment landed at a two-location cafe in Calgary, Alberta. It rested on a payroll clearing account that had never been brought to zero, carrying a balance nobody could explain. The objection was allowed in full.
A two-location cafe in Calgary, Alberta had been reassessed for $113,000. 10 days were left on the objection deadline. The reassessment rested on a payroll clearing account that had never been brought to zero, carrying a balance nobody could explain. We filed the objection inside the deadline with a complete submission rather than a placeholder. Alongside it, we set up a documented chart of accounts, a receipt-capture workflow and a monthly reconciliation that closes within ten days of month-end. The appeals officer allowed the objection in full. $113,000 was reversed and the account returned to a nil balance.
Remittances at a dental hygiene clinic in Moncton, New Brunswick were chronically late. It came down to input tax credits claimed on receipts that had already been claimed once. Fixing the schedule refunded $35,000.
Remittances at a dental hygiene clinic in Moncton, New Brunswick were consistently late by a few days. That was enough to trigger penalties every quarter. Behind it sat input tax credits claimed on receipts that had already been claimed once. We converted the foreign-currency purchases at transaction-date rates and recorded the exchange difference at settlement instead of burying it in cost of sales. Then we moved the remittance dates into a scheduled process rather than a monthly decision. Penalties stopped from the following remittance onwards, and $35,000 of overpaid instalments was refunded.
A specialty coffee roaster in Brampton, Ontario faced a $70,000 proposed reassessment. It came 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.
A specialty coffee roaster in Brampton, Ontario received a proposal letter opening a review of year-end bookkeeping cleanup. The CRA had identified three years of returns filed off numbers nobody could trace back to a bank statement. It proposed an adjustment of $70,000, with 30 days to respond. We treated the response as an evidence exercise rather than an argument. We separated the owner’s personal spending out of the corporate accounts and cleared the resulting shareholder loan properly. We then indexed every supporting document against the specific line the auditor had questioned. The proposed adjustment was withdrawn in full — all $70,000 of it. The file closed in 10 weeks with no change to the assessed amounts and no penalty.
The CRA had assessed a residential cleaning franchise in Surrey, British Columbia on estimates across 3 unfiled years. Real filings vacated $112,000 of that tax.
3 years of unfiled returns had turned into notional assessments at a residential cleaning franchise in Surrey, British Columbia. Underneath lay meals and entertainment coded at full cost with the input tax credit claimed on the whole amount. Collections had already started. We cleared the payroll and sales tax clearing accounts every month and tied each remittance to the liability it settled. We then filed every outstanding year in chronological order so the CRA could vacate the notional assessments cleanly. All 3 years were accepted as filed. $112,000 of arbitrarily assessed tax was vacated, collections action stopped, and the account is current for the first time in 3 years.
A 5-week rebuild at a subscription box retailer in Vancouver, British Columbia got the filing in with 20 days to spare. That avoided $116,000 in penalties.
A subscription box retailer in Vancouver, British Columbia was weeks away from the deadline for year-end bookkeeping cleanup. Behind that sat eighteen months of unreconciled transactions and a shoebox of receipts. The exposure if the date slipped was around $116,000. We reconciled receivables and payables to source documents and wrote off the balances that were genuinely uncollectible, with support. The filing went in complete rather than provisional, so there was no amended return to follow. Filed with 20 days to spare. $116,000 in late-filing penalties avoided, and the working papers are ready for the following year.
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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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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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It depends less on opinion than owners assume. 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. Once you know that, the practical question becomes timing and documentation — both of which we handle inside the engagement.
The honest starting point is this: For the 2025 tax year, an invoice of $100 or more must show the supplier’s GST/HST registration number to support an input tax credit. From $500 it also needs the buyer’s name, a description of the supply and the payment terms. Everything else we would tell you is tailoring, and tailoring requires seeing your file.
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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.
The landlord pays tax on rent, not the tenant. Rent received is income, reported every year on the owner's return, and the costs of earning it are deductible: mortgage interest, property tax, insurance, utilities you pay, advertising, repairs and condo fees. Improvements are added to the cost of the property and written off over time instead. Rent a tenant pays for a home is not deductible, although some provinces give a housing or occupancy credit on the provincial return.
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.
Check My Account, which shows your current balance, any instalment requirement and the assessment for every year. The notice of assessment for your last filed return also states the balance, and the CRA's individual enquiries line can confirm it once you verify your identity. If returns are missing, the balance is not final until those years are filed. A representative can review it for you once authorised through Represent a Client or form AUT-01.
No. Revenue is income you have earned and belongs on the income statement, not among liabilities. Money taken before you deliver the goods or service is different: unearned or deferred revenue is a liability until you perform the work. Sales tax you collect is also a liability rather than revenue. Booking customer deposits straight to sales is a common error that overstates profit and distorts the figures on your GST/HST return.
No. GST/HST you charge is tax you collect for the government, so a registrant keeps it out of revenue and reports it on the GST/HST return, claiming input tax credits against it. Report your sales net of the tax on your T2125 or T2. If you are not registered you charge no GST/HST, and the tax you pay on your own purchases is simply part of the cost of each deductible expense.
Work it from your own figures rather than a rule of thumb. A corporation on active business income pays 9% federally on the first $500,000 for 2026, plus the provincial small business rate — 3.2% in Ontario, falling to 2.2% on 1 July 2026 — so reserve that share of profit as you earn it. A sole proprietor should set aside at their marginal personal rate plus CPP. Keep GST/HST collected in a separate account; that money was never yours.
Commodity tax is the practitioner's term for taxes charged on transactions in goods and services rather than on income. In Canada it covers GST at 5% for 2025 and 2026, the HST in participating provinces, provincial sales taxes, Quebec's QST, and excise and fuel levies. The seller collects the tax and remits it to the government, so the business acts as collector while the buyer ultimately bears the cost.
Both happen, and the tax result differs. Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security are paid monthly and taxed as received. A defined-benefit pension usually pays monthly, though some plans offer a commuted value instead; a lump sum paid to you is taxable in that year unless part of it transfers directly into a registered plan. Money in an RRSP can be withdrawn as a lump sum or converted to periodic retirement income.
Yes. Tips and gratuities are taxable income whether they come by card, through a pooled arrangement, or as cash handed straight to you. Controlled tips your employer distributes are already inside the employment income on your T4; direct and cash tips usually are not, so you report them yourself as other employment income. Keep a daily record, because the CRA can assess unreported tips from deposits and industry patterns. Servers, bartenders, stylists and drivers are all covered.
Because you remit the tax you charged customers, less the GST/HST you paid on business purchases. Tax you collect was never your money, so when collections exceed your input tax credits, the difference is payable. The usual reasons a bill feels large are missed input tax credits, receipts too thin to support a claim, the quick method applying to your sales, or the collected tax having been spent as working capital. Bank it separately.
There is a level below which no federal tax is payable, but it comes from credits rather than an exemption. The federal basic personal amount for 2026 is $16,452, tapering to $14,829 on net income between $181,440 and $258,482, and each province sets its own amount. Below roughly that level federal tax works out to nil, though CPP contributions and EI premiums can still apply, and you should file to claim credits and benefits.
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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. 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.
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