The consultant with a single client
Incorporate your Lac-Beauport business from $999, fees included. Suited to consultants and independent professionals. Fully online.
Consulting and services at Quebec City's edge
Complete legal filings
Each incorporation includes all legal filings required to create a compliant and operational corporation from day one.
Share capital structure
Depending on the option selected, your share capital structure is prepared in a simple or advanced format to support the future evolution of your business.
Digital minute book
All corporate documents are delivered in a digital minute book, ready for electronic signature and secure record keeping.
Professional validation
Documents are prepared according to established legal standards and reviewed before delivery.
Human support
Our team supports you throughout the process and provides guidance when decisions need to be made, without unnecessary complexity.
Incorporate your business
Build your company in Quebec or federally with a strong legal structure from day one.
Keep your company’s annual filings up to date and maintain compliance of your corporate minute book.
Access professional legal templates to structure relationships with your employees, partners, and suppliers.
By opening a NBC business account.
A guided process, from information gathering to final document delivery.
Each step is designed to ensure compliance and legal consistency.
Tailor your incorporation to your needs (simple or advanced structure).
Each file is reviewed before delivery to ensure a reliable outcome.
Our incorporation guides
Clear resources to help you understand the legal aspects of starting a business.
Incorporation
Discover the complete guide to incorporation in Quebec. Essential steps, expert tips and key information to create and manage your corporation.
The Complete Guide to Incorporating in Quebec (QBCA)
Everything you need to know to incorporate under the Quebec Business Corporations Act. Key actors, articles, costs and the process explained simply.
The Complete Guide to Federal Incorporation in Canada (CBCA)
Incorporate your business under the Canada Business Corporations Act. Key actors, articles, annual costs and the federal incorporation process explained clearly.
The Complete Guide to Incorporating in Ontario (OBCA)
Incorporate your business under the Ontario Business Corporations Act. Key actors, articles, annual costs and the provincial incorporation process explained clearly.
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Lac-Beauport: residential, outdoors and self-employment
Lac-Beauport combines a resort setting, an established residential population and a high proportion of professionals working from home: consultants, project managers, technology specialists, advisors and skilled self-employed workers.
A tax risk specific to consultants
Many incorporated consultants bill most of their fees to a single client, sometimes a former employer. That situation draws the attention of tax authorities.
The concept at play is the personal services business. When an individual provides, through their corporation, services they would otherwise render as an employee, the corporation can lose the small-business rate and see its expense deductions heavily restricted. The tax outcome becomes clearly unfavourable.
The criteria examined concern control over your work, who supplies the tools, the chance of profit and risk of loss, and how integrated you are into the client's organization. Diversifying clients, supplying your own equipment, setting your methods and bearing real risk reduce exposure.
Online incorporation, reviewed by lawyers
Our pricing includes government fees. See our online incorporation guide or start your incorporation.
By opening a NBC business account.
Provincial or federal for a Lac-Beauport consultant?
For a practice serving the Quebec City area, the provincial regime fits. Federal can be justified if you regularly bill clients established in other provinces.
Document the relationship
A clear service contract stating your autonomy, deliverables, tools and the absence of subordination is your best evidence. It does not suffice on its own, but its absence makes the position hard to defend.
Your obligations once incorporated
Annual updating declaration, a current minute book, a separate corporate tax return and resolutions recording major decisions.
Common questions from Lac-Beauport entrepreneurs
I only have one client for now. Should I give up on incorporating? No, but discuss it with your accountant and work on diversifying. Client count is only one of the criteria examined.
Compare your options in REQ, platform or notary, or start your incorporation.