Formation Guides
Written from primary government sources, not marketing copy. Real fees, real deadlines, and the structuring decisions that are expensive to reverse — including the ones an incorporation package will not tell you about.
Canada · FeaturedFederal Incorporation in Canada, Done Yourself
The complete no-agent walkthrough of forming a CBCA corporation — 14 steps, the director residency rule, the ISC filing that carries a CAD 1M penalty, and the share structure decisions that are only cheap on day one.
CanadaWhat a Federal Canadian Corporation Actually Costs
Every fee itemised for 2026 — government filings, province-by-province registration, banking, card processing, and accounting. Three worked budgets from bare minimum to comfortable.
14 min readCanadaSales Tax for a Canadian Digital Studio
GST/HST, provincial PST and QST, US state sales tax nexus, and EU/UK VAT for a corporation selling both design services and digital downloads — with the thresholds that trigger each.
16 min readCanadaSetting Up Stripe for a Canadian Corporation
What Stripe verifies against the corporate registry, the documents to have ready, the full 2026 fee stack, and the payout settings that decide how much of each sale you keep.
13 min readMore jurisdictions in progress
The Canada series is the first of a set. In the meantime, every jurisdiction we work in has a detailed profile with fees, entity types, formation steps, and banking guidance.
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