Tax Considerations when Expanding Business into Canada

Canadian Business Expansion Incorporation: Undertaking the appropriate incorporation and business structuring when expanding one's commercial enterprise into Canada is critical to navigating around avoidable complexities and problems, while optimizing opportunities that are available through decisive corporate structuring within the Canadian system. Read more.

Partnering with Canadian Business (Joint Ventures): Forming a partnership or joint venture with a Canadian business partner is a common strategy for international companies looking to enter the Canadian market, and thereby leveraging local business knowledge, established networks, and resources while sharing the risks and costs associated with a new venture in a foreign country. Read more.

Acquiring a Canadian Business: The acquisition of a domestic Canadian buisness (corporation or partnership) by an international corporate enterprise requires local Canadian legal representation that is not afraid of addressing key legal issues associated with the target business, which all too often exist, yet due to serious inherent conflicts that we have previously identified within larger law firms, which can pose serious post-acquisition legal and financial problems that we are focused on addressing. Read more.

Hiring Employees and Contractors in Canada: Canada has distinctive employment laws at both the federal and provincial level, which impacts the hiring of employees and contractors in Canada, with some serious inherent conflicts that we perceive within larger law firms, making them unwilling or incapable of properly representing new foreign corporate entrants in their legal representation of employee and contractor hiring. Read more.

Tax Considerations when Expanding Business into Canada: Expanding your international corporate business into Canada involves navigating a complex landscape of federal and provincial tax laws, with the resultant tax implications heavily dependent on the selected Canadian business structure, its Canadian business activities, and particulars related to the home country from which the expansion is being undertaken. Read more.