Ongoing compliance
Not a reminder that you should file. We file it, every year, in every jurisdiction your corporation is registered in. Miss it and the registry starts the process of dissolving your corporation.
Federal returns are counted from the day you incorporated. Ontario returns are counted from your fiscal year end, which is usually a different date and is not written on your certificate. Same company, same year, months apart.
Corporations Canada
Federal annual return
Next deadline
May 13, 2026
Counted from your incorporation date
Ontario Business Registry
Ontario annual return
Next deadline
June 30, 2026
Counted from your fiscal year end
Worked example for a corporation incorporated March 14, 2024 with a 31 December year end. Those two dates are 48 days apart. Both are computed by the same code that runs your reminders.
Your annual return, filed for you
Every year, in every jurisdiction your corporation is registered in. Not a reminder that you should file. We file it.
A deadline calendar that knows the difference between jurisdictions
Federal returns are due 60 days after your incorporation anniversary. Ontario's are due six months after your fiscal year end, which is a different date entirely. We track whichever applies to you, and warn you 60, 21 and 7 days ahead.
Significant control register, kept current
Mandatory federally and in most provinces, and since January 2024 it has to be filed alongside your federal annual return. Missing it carries real penalties, and it is the item founders most often do not know exists.
Digital minute book, and you can take it with you
Articles, bylaws, resolutions, registers and certificates in one place. Export everything at any time. If you leave, you leave with your records.
Director, officer and address changes filedComing
Unlimited, in any jurisdiction we cover. Most services automate this federally only, then charge per filing everywhere else.
CRA business number and GST/HST registrationComing
Set up once, properly, so your first return is not the thing that discovers the problem.
Some services bundle contract drafting into a compliance subscription. We do not, because drafting agreements is legal work and CorpStart is a filing service, not a law firm. Specifically, not included:
We list the deadline rule and where we read it, so you can check us. If we have not confirmed a jurisdiction’s rule against the registry or the statute, we do not sell you a filing promise for it.
Federal annual return
Corporations Canada
CBCA. Filed within the 60 days following the anniversary date of incorporation, amalgamation or continuance. No return is owed for the year of incorporation.
Read the sourceOntario annual return
Ontario Business Registry
Corporations Information Act. Filed within six months after the end of the corporation's tax year end. The CRA stopped accepting these on the ministry's behalf on 5 May 2021; they now go directly to the Ontario Business Registry.
Read the sourceBC annual report
BC Registries and Online Services
Business Corporations Act (BC) s.51. Filed within 2 months after each anniversary of the date on which the company was recognized, which means incorporation, amalgamation, extraprovincial registration or continuation into B.C.
Read the sourceAlberta, not yet
Alberta Corporate Registry
We know exactly when an Alberta return is due: the last day of the month after your anniversary month, under Alta Reg 118/2000 s.24. What we cannot yet do is file it. Alberta accepts corporate filings only through an authorised registry agent, so we are not going to promise you a filing we cannot perform.
No card, no commitment. If you already have a corporation with us, your deadlines are being tracked either way.
Incorporating first? See incorporation pricing.