Incorp Pro™, as an intermediary, offers all business registration and corporate filing services online. This online system is available 24 hours a day which makes easy for Individuals, Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners to incorporate and register their business online without going through a lawyer. Our In-House Legal Counsels, Corporate Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, Paralegals and IT team works together and thus, the online order placement systemn has been made very easy for any common man.
Incorporation Services
The Articles of Incorporation, bylaws and other corporate draft and documents are prepared by our in-house corporate lawyer as per appropriate corporation act. You have option to make a named or numbered company in two business hours. Our not-for-profit articles are prepared and updated as per recent update of not-for profit corporation act.
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Corporation | Incorporate a named or Numbered Corporation with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Professional Corporation | Incorporate for professionals like Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants, etc. | Order Now |
| Not-for-Profit | Incorporate Non-Profit or Society Corporation with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Personal Real Estate (PREC) | Incorporate a corporation for real estate professionals with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Registered Charity | Register a Non-Profit for Charity status with Canada revenue Agency | Order Now |
Business Name Registration or Renewal Services
You can register or renew an Ontario business name (previously known as MBL or Master Business Licence) in two business hours via our online services. You need to fill in the form step by step and pay online using credit card or interac-e-transfer method. Upon registration completion, you will receive the registered documents via email and later via post. You have option to obtain the company.
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| Sole Proprietorship | Register a business name as a single owner with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| General Partnership | Register a General Partnership with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Limited Liability Partnership | Register a Limited Liability Partnership with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Business Name for a Corporation | Register a business name under a corporation with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Business registration renewal | Renew a business name under a corporation with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Renew a Limited Partnership | Renew a Limited Partnership with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
Corporation Update Services:
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| Corporation name change | Change a corporation name, change number to name etc. | Order Now |
| Corporation’s Address Change | Change registered office Address | Order Now |
| Corporation’s Director Change | Add or remove Directors, Change Address of Directors | Order Now |
| Corporation’s Shareholder Change | Add or remove Shareholder | Order Now |
| Corporation’s Officer Change | Add or remove, change title of Officers | Order Now |
Unincorporated Business Update Services:
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| Business Update | Change Business Address or business activities | Order Now |
| Dissolve Sole Proprietorship | Cancel a Sole Proprietorship or Business name | Order Now |
| Dissolve a Partnership | Cancel a Partnership or Business name | Order Now |
| Dissolve a Trade Name | Cancel a Trade Name or business name | Order Now |
Corporate Filing Services:
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| Dissolve a Corproation | Dissolve a coporation with Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Continuance of a Corporation | continue or move a corproation to a new province | Order Now |
| Continuance (not-for-profit) | continue or move a not-for-profit corproation to a new province | Order Now |
| Dissolution (not-for-profit) | dissolving a not-for-profit corproation | Order Now |
| Articles of Amendment | Amend coproations Articles, share structure etc. | Order Now |
| Annual Return | File the Annual Return with the Provincial Registry | Order Now |
| Revive a Corporation | Activate a previously canceled corporation | Order Now |
NUANS and Corporate Records Search Services:
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| NUANS® Report | Name Search and reservation report | Order Now |
| Name Pre-Search | Pre-Search a Name to check the availibilty | Order Now |
| Certificate of Status | Government certificate to confirm the status active or non-active | Order Now |
| Certificate & Article | Duplicate copies of corporation documents | Order Now |
| Corporate Profile Report | Details report of corporation information | Order Now |
| Other Corporate Records | Includes Corporation summary, certificate of non-filing etc. | Order Now |
Non-Residents' Corporate Services:
| Product Name | Description | Link to Order |
|---|---|---|
| Extra Provincial registration | Register a foreign corporation in Canada | Order Now |
| Extra-Provincial LLC | Register a foreign LLC in Canada | Order Now |
| LP for Non-Residents | Register a Limnited partnership in Canada | Order Now |
| Subsidiary Corporation for Non-Residents | Register a Canadian Corporation with foreign Ownership | Order Now |
Guidelines to Choose Right Format of Business:
Well, “Business Registration” is a very generic term. In Canada, a business can be registered in the above five formats. Here is a quick explanation and guidelines for you to choose the right form of business for you.
Incorporated vs non-Incorporated:
First question to be asked, are you looking to register a business that has its own existence (legal entity) and limited liability (LLC)? If the answer is yes, then your choice is Incorporation.
Among the above five, only Incorporation has the limited liability and own existence (legal entity). To make it simple, if anything happens to your business the liability goes to the business itself, not to your personal life.
A very classical example: if somebody sue your business, and then the court order goes against our business. Then the liability goes under the incorporated business. The worst case scenario can happen is, you may declare your corporation as Bankrupt. It won’t go after your personal assets such as your house or car or credit score etc.
However, for a non-incorporated business, the liability on you, it can go after your personal assets. A corporation also has tax benefits. When you spend for business purpose, including your car expenses, house rents etc. can be claimed and get corporate tax benefits as a corporation while non-incorporated business don’t have that benefit.
A corporation has also perpetual existence, which means the business doesn’t die at the death of its owner, while non-incorporated business dies at the death of its owner. When you spend money to incorporate, this initial spending has tax benefits since it can be claimed as “Business Development Expense”, but when you register a non-incorporated business, you can’t get this benefit either.
A corporation’s name is more strongly protected than a non-incorporated business name. Therefore, if doing a business online where you could be present anywhere in Canada or outside of Canada, the best choice would be incorporating as a federal Corporation.
Sole Proprietorship:
This is the best choice when you are just starting a very small business, where you even not sure, you will have any customer or not. The sale and transaction is so small that you feel there is no issue of liability nor tax benefits.
A Sole Proprietorship also a good choice when you are a foreigner in Canada; because to make a corporation you or your partner (at least 25% of the owners) has to be either Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident (exception for British Columbia only). Sole proprietorship is where you have a single owner; if more than one owner, it becomes a General Partnership.
General Partnership:
A general Partnership is just another form of Sole Proprietorship where more than one owner involved. This is a non-incorporated form of business hence, liability goes to the partners; tax benefits can’t be claimed and as well as no perpetual existence.
This form of business is best when you fall into the category of Sole Proprietorship, but has more than one owner.
Ontario Master Business License:
Well, a Master Business License is another form of Sole Proprietorship (non-incorporated). In the province of Ontario, a sole proprietorship is alternatively named as Master Business License.
Therefore, if you fall into the category of sole proprietorship and you are in Ontario. Then this is your choice. A Master Business License can be owner by an individual or a corporation. When it’s owner by a corporation, it’s called Trade Name.
Trade Name/DBA:
A sole proprietorship or master business license is owned by an individual, while a trade name is owned by a corporation. The most common case of trade name registration is, when you have a numbered corporation and you want to add a name to it.
Or you may have a named corporation, but you want to add another name as a DBA (doing business as). A Trade name also registered where you have a corporation which is doing one type of business. But you want to start another type of business in a different name but under the same corporation.
A corporation can take many trade name. When a money order or bank cheque comes in those alternative names, bank deposits it into the same corporation’s account.