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I pity you steph been there done never again will i ever incorporate. You will need accountant for you year end for him to submit you tax because you are not allowed to do this your self.
Life is like Pinball!! You never know where you will bounce or where your going but sometimes you have that one amazing shot But on the other hand you have those darn gutter ball where you just get frustrated.
You will need accountant for you year end for him to submit you tax because you are not allowed to do this your self.
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As Owner/President/Treasurer/Accountant/Janitor of the company, I'm entirely eligible to submit corporate taxes (T2 form) myself.
There is no legal precendent to prevent me from submitting my own corporate tax.
Of course, having a certified accountant would probably eliminate some headaches, but I'm too cheap to pay $800 for some guy to do what I could do in 2 hrs....
Of course, having a certified accountant would probably eliminate some headaches, but I'm too cheap to pay $800 for some guy to do what I could do in 2 hrs....
I pay alot more than $800. One year things were tight and I had the same brain fart as you. "I can do this" and I did, but I forgot an important declaration which impacted the next year tax plan costing me alot of money enough. Enough in fact to cover his outrageous fees. Since then, I have recognized the value the accountant brings.
Good luck, but I think you are crazy to go it alone.
Not everyone can do it. If I recall correctly, you have to have more than one stream of income -- I could be wrong here -- so, for example, an employee cannot simply start collecting consulting revenue from their employeer and claim they are a company.
I think you are perhaps confusing the business tax write-offs rules.
The multiple income streams is important to show that you are not in an employee/employer relationship.
[ An employee/employer relationship is when a consultant assumes essentially the role of a full-time employee, which, clearly is my case here... ]
These rules are to prevent a consultant who works on the same customer site (ie. has an office there..) to claim business write-offs that a full-time employee could not.
For instance, some consultants will try to write-off their car expenses to drive into work. You can not do this if you always go to the same office.
(... a plumber for instance can write off travel expenses because he goes to multiple sites for work, but not the white-collar consultant who always goes to the same office )
That said, if I'm a "free-lance" consultant who has several clients and have to traval to various locations (say, a web designer), THEN I can write that off.
That's where the multiple streams of income comes in. It's to prove that you are not in an employee/employer relationship and therefore have more flexibility to write off expenses. (...which is not my goal here... )
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Sorry in Quebec that's a no no trust me almost cost me 60k because of that if you are owner president ect you cannot file business income tax at end of year only a ca can do this. Trust me i tried and got a major slap on the hand then was lucky they gave me a chance i went to see accountant and cost me 650$ for all paper work. Then when i tried to close company down in Quebec easier said then done took 5 years to close the dam thing they kept loosing paper work saying you did not pay taxes for this period then send them a fax saying you did 6 months later they do it again but for another period said info again. Then they had a server crash i had to re send all my paper work because they lost it. Never again specially for fing Quebec.
As Owner/President/Treasurer/Accountant/Janitor of the company, I'm entirely eligible to submit corporate taxes (T2 form) myself.
There is no legal precendent to prevent me from submitting my own corporate tax.
Of course, having a certified accountant would probably eliminate some headaches, but I'm too cheap to pay $800 for some guy to do what I could do in 2 hrs....
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Life is like Pinball!! You never know where you will bounce or where your going but sometimes you have that one amazing shot But on the other hand you have those darn gutter ball where you just get frustrated.
My experience is outdated, for sure( I left in 2001 after the market imploded), and this potential loophole applies to me as well. I am going to investigate it for sure.
Just out of curiosity, if you pay yourself a dividend of 40,000, the corp pays 800$ tax, or you as a person receiving the dividend pay 800 tax?
In the past, people were avoiding taxes in all kinds of crazy ways, that they have since eliminated, but with Rev Can it is also a cat and mouse type of situation. People are always finding unique ways to lower their tax burden, especially corporations, but just be careful, and budget for the eventuality that it is reversed.
As far as the dividend payment goes, it hasn't worked that way for me for tax purposes. I hope my accountant is on the ball...
My dividend thing assumes not other source of personal income.
From what I understand, it's a credit you get from the Dividend which basically reduces the amount of tax owing ON THE DIVIDEND.
If you have other sources of income, these will be still be taxed accordingly
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Regarding "Employing" the spouse; be careful with that one. Under audit, if they find he/she's on the payroll/board solely for tax purposes, with no added value to the corp., you may find yourself owing back taxes - but, professional advice on that one would be prudent.
Yes, I'm very leery of that practice (employing a spouse) ... I know people who pay their spouses $30,000yr as "file clerks".
I know this is HUGE red flag for REV CAN, and it is NOT what I want to do.
I basically want to give my wife part ownership of the company (... say 49% of non-voting shares ), so that she has no control of the compamy but can be given some dividends.
This would obviously require some notarized paperwork, but perhaps worth it in the end.
Heres my .02....My business is incorporated( op.co.), but is wholly owned by another company that I also wholly own ( hold co.). Whenever I dividend $$ from my op.co. to the hold co. there are no tax implications from a a personal side UNLESS I take the $$ out of my hold co. as dividends or salary or whatever. Many times I will dividend $$ to the hold co. and just invest it there, which again doesn't trigger tax until I take it out( although hold co. can be liable for tax if the investments generate significant gains).
When I do take a dividend from the hold co., it does usually end up costing in tax about 30% as an average to me personally ( there is a set gross up calculation thats involved). I've never been able to literally take a dividend personally thats tax free. I WISH I COULD! The 30% rate though is better than my personal marginal rate for plain old salary so it is still advantageous. One thing thats been mentioned that you have to remember is that you have to file separate Prov. and Fed. tax returns for your incorporated company. These are far from simple, and even though I am a CMA, I have my CA file them for all of my businesses ( I haven't been a practising CMA for many years as well now anyhow). That does cost a few $$ for sure, but trust me you don't want to have the CRA coming into your life if you can avoid it, so filing things 100% properly will save you from potential big stress down the road.
I think the bottom line is that incorporating isn't the big tax avoidance vehicle that a lot of people think it is. It may save you from some tax, but it costs in other ways. The big benefit from a business owners perspective is to limit the exposure of your personal assets, which would be wide open to creditors if you were an individual.
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Before you can pay yourself any dividend, you must pay your corporate tax of 16% (...or perhaps a bit more if you factor provincial tax ).
So using my example of $50K, you would pay $8000 of corp taxes (...not $800 ), and this is money the Corporation pays to the Government,
The remainder ( $42,000) is considered after-tax profit and can be paid out as a dividend . (... I think...)
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Hey steph this from my ca Yes, because of the fancy mechanics behind dividends, you can receive probably appx. $36,000 without paying income tax - assuming no other income. (these are assumed to be "ineligible dividends", which would be the dividends you'd receive if you incorporated). You would pay, however, a few hundred bucks in tax re: the Ontario Health Premium levy.
Dividends are not deductible to corporations - therefore the corporation pays the tax, instead of the individual. If the corporation qualifies, the rate of tax for a corp. is around 16.5% right now.
The cons of dividends to recipients:
--they don't go towards CPP
--they don't generate any RRSP room, as they're not considered earned income
In general, you want to be able to "run the numbers" on any situation, such that the tax paid by the corp. + the individuals is minimized!