Catching up on structure after the business started
Incorporate your Saint-Georges business from $999, government fees included. Built for Beauce manufacturing SMEs and family businesses.
Beauce manufacturing entrepreneurship
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
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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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Saint-Georges: a recognized entrepreneurial culture
Beauce has a deserved reputation for entrepreneurship. Saint-Georges is its centre, with a remarkable concentration of manufacturing SMEs: wood and doors, metal, plastics, equipment, technical textiles, food processing, plus the services and construction that revolve around them.
That culture has one trait: people start fast. You see an opportunity, buy a machine, deliver a first client, hire. Legal structure often follows years later.
Catching up beats standing still
Many prosperous Beauce businesses still operate as sole proprietorships or informal partnerships, with paid-off equipment, employees and significant revenue. Risk accumulates quietly: personal liability on every contract, no way to sell the business as a whole, personal taxation on profits you do not withdraw.
Incorporating later remains possible and often advantageous. Transferring existing assets into the new corporation generally happens through a tax rollover, without immediate tax, with an accountant's guidance.
- A separate legal person protecting assets already built
- A reduced tax rate on the first $500,000 of eligible active business income
- A planned asset transfer rather than an improvised one
- A business that can be sold and handed down
Online incorporation, reviewed by lawyers
Lexstart works with Beauce entrepreneurs remotely: a 15-minute questionnaire, Quebec legal review, articles, digital minute book and initial resolutions. 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 Saint-Georges business?
Beauce SMEs export heavily, notably to the United States and Ontario. That does not force federal incorporation: a Quebec corporation can export anywhere. Federal mainly becomes relevant with a physical establishment in another province or a desire to protect a brand across Canada.
Structuring between partners, even after years
Many Beauce ventures start among close contacts, without documents. If several people own the business, a shareholders agreement should be signed at the same time as incorporation: it sets the split, exit rules, share valuation and what happens on death or disagreement.
Your obligations once incorporated
Annual updating declaration, a current minute book, a separate corporate tax return and resolutions recording major decisions.
Common questions from Saint-Georges entrepreneurs
My business is fifteen years old. Is it too late? No. Catching up is common and is planned with an accountant for the asset transfer.
Do I lose my track record by incorporating? The business changes legal form, but your reputation, contracts and relationships transfer.
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