Ontario · Northeastern Ontario
Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario and the centre of one of the most significant mining supply and services clusters in the world. CorpStart files your OBCA corporation (Articles, By-law, and Minute Book) typically within one to two business hours.
Numbered corporation
$279
+ $300 Ontario gov fee
$579 total
The mining supply sector runs on subcontracting, and that shapes the incorporation question more than anything else here. A firm working on a mine site will face insurance requirements, health and safety expectations and prime contractor onboarding that a sole proprietorship is rarely allowed through, so the corporation tends to be a precondition of the first real contract rather than a later optimisation. Sudbury is also structurally unusual on the municipal side: it sorts businesses into those needing a licence and those needing a registration, and refreshment vehicles sit on the registration side, so searching for a food truck licence here looks for an instrument the city does not issue.
Nearby municipalities (Val Caron, Lively, Chelmsford, Garson, Espanola) all fall under the same Ontario Business Corporations Act. A single Ontario corporation covers your operations throughout the province with no additional municipal registrations.
Greater Sudbury licenses one of the business types we have researched, but does not publish its fees where an applicant can find them. We record that gap rather than estimating around it. The licence is still separate from incorporating, and the city will want proof your business is registered before it issues anything.
| Business type | What the by-law calls it | First year |
|---|---|---|
| Food truck licence | Refreshment Vehicle business registration | Not published |
Food truck licence: Business Licensing By-law 2012-120. Checked 2026-09-15. View the source
Fee schedules commonly reset in January, so follow the source before you budget. If a figure here disagrees with Greater Sudbury, the city is right and we would like to know. See how Greater Sudbury compares to other municipalities, or browse every licence type we track. Last checked 2026-09-15.
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Numbered Corporation
e.g., 1234567 Ontario Inc. Fastest option, no name search required.
$279
+ $300 Ontario gov fee = $579 total
Named corporation
Named Corporation
e.g., Acme Holdings Inc. Choose your corporate name, includes NUANS pre-search.
$279
+ $300 Ontario gov fee, NUANS search included = $579 total
What does a refreshment vehicle registration cost in Sudbury?
The business licensing page does not publish a fee for it. The amounts sit in a user fees by-law the page does not link to, which is a common pattern in Ontario and an unhelpful one. Contact Compliance and Enforcement Services for the current figure rather than relying on a number from anywhere else.
I subcontract to mining operations. Does incorporating matter?
In practice it usually does, though not because of any municipal rule. Prime contractors and mine operators typically require suppliers to carry substantial liability insurance and to satisfy health and safety onboarding before work starts, and many will not set up a sole proprietorship as a vendor at all. In that environment the corporation is part of qualifying for the work rather than a tax decision made afterwards.
Do I need a Greater Sudbury business licence as well as incorporating?
They are two different things and incorporating does not replace the licence. Incorporating is a provincial filing that creates the company. A municipal licence is Greater Sudbury's permission to carry on a specific activity inside the city, and it is issued under the city's own by-law. Of the business types we have researched, Greater Sudbury licenses food truck licence. The city will normally want proof the business is registered before it issues a licence, so the order runs registration first and licence second.
What does a food truck licence cost in Greater Sudbury?
Greater Sudbury does not publish the fee where an applicant can find it, so we do not publish a number either. It calls the licence a Refreshment Vehicle business registration. We last checked on 2026-09-15. Contact the city's licensing office for a current figure rather than relying on an estimate.
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