DIY Legal › Business · Ontario incorporation
Your Ontario corporation, set up from your own answers.
$399.00 + HST · about 23 minutes to answer · pay at the end
Short questions in plain language; the articles schedule for the Ontario Business Registry form and the whole minute book (by-laws, resolutions, consents, share certificates, registers) are drafted from the firm's own precedents, with a guide to the filing. You file on the registry yourself; it takes about half an hour.
It is for you if: One or a few owners starting a private Ontario company with a simple share structure.
✓ Nine quick questions first: no account until you know it fits✓ The firm's own precedents, on the current Act✓ The filing guide for the Ontario Business Registry✓ Ontario corporate lawyers a click away
Three ways to do it
Do it yourself
$399.00 + HST
- The articles schedule for the registry form and the whole minute book, from the firm's precedents
- The filing guide, step by step, and the Initial Return reminder
- Checks of your answers, with a clear flag when a lawyer should look
With a lawyer's review
$648.00 + HST ($399.00 + $249.00)
- Everything in Do it yourself
- One of our corporate lawyers reads your answers, the share structure and the documents before you file
- Written notes on anything to change, and a word on a shareholders' agreement if you need one
We file it for you
Quoted what you paid for the package is credited
- The firm's ordinary incorporation: the NUANS report, the filing, the minute book
- A meeting with a lawyer on the structure
- A call first to confirm the fee
Prices before HST. The government fee ($300 on the Ontario Business Registry) and the NUANS report are paid by you. The review is added on the checkout page after you pay for the package.
What you get, what you will need, and how it works
What you get
- The articles schedule for the Ontario Business Registry form
- By-Law No. 1 and No. 2, the organizational resolutions, consents to act
- Share subscriptions and certificates, the registers, the minute book index
- A guide to the registry filing, the Initial Return and the first annual resolutions
$399.00 + HST = $450.87
Paid once, at the end. The government fee ($300) and the NUANS report are separate and paid by you.
What you will need
- The name you want (or a numbered company) and, for a name, a NUANS report
- A street address in Ontario for the registered office
- The directors' and shareholders' names and addresses
- How the shares are split (one owner: 100 common shares is usual)
- An email address the government can write to
Not included
- The government filing fee (paid by you on the registry)
- Tax or structuring advice
- A shareholders’ agreement (available from the firm)
How it works
- Can you do this yourself? ~3 minNine quick questions. They tell you whether an Ontario corporation you set up yourself is the right route, before you create an account.
- The corporation ~4 minThe name (or a numbered company), the registered office and the official email the government writes to.
- Directors and officers ~4 minWho runs the corporation. One person can be the only director, the president and the secretary.
- Shares and owners ~4 minWho owns the corporation and through which class of shares.
- Organization ~3 minThe year end, the bank, the accountant, the main business activity.
- Preview and checkout ~5 minRead the documents over. When they are right, pay and download them with the filing guide.
If anything in your answers needs a lawyer, the service stops there and tells you why. You can ask for one of our lawyers at any point.