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Vancouver Small Business Owners – To Incorporate or Not?

Read Before Incorporating For Small Business Owners in Vancouver, BC I often have friends and neighbours telling me how well their business is doing and that they want to incorporate their Vancouver-based business. It appears that a lot of business owners have this notion that as a business takes off, incorporating is a necessity. Business owners specifically do not know

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Capital Gains Deduction for Canadian Business Owners

Running your own canadian company has many tax perks. This includes many write-offs, low corporate tax rates for the Canadian controlled private corporations (“CCPC”), and the income splitting opportunities. One of the biggest and least discussed tax breaks is the lifetime capital gains deduction that is available when a shareholder of a CCPC is ready to sell his shares of

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To Incorporate or Not, Vancouver?

Many small business owners are aware of the considerable tax benefits afforded to incorporated businesses in terms of very low corporate tax rates, but incorporating too early is a common tax planning blunder these days. Of course, there are many legal considerations to incorporating a business such as limiting liabilities. Even then, it is a legal debate whether incorporation will

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