Case Study 1
Filed On Time From A Standing Start, $107,000 Penalty Avoided — Short-Term Rental Operator, Surrey
A short-term rental operator in Surrey, British Columbia was 8 weeks from a deadline while carrying provincial sales tax collected but never remitted on the separate BC return. Filing complete and on time avoided roughly $107,000 in penalties.
A short-term rental operator in Surrey, British Columbia came to us 8 weeks before its filing deadline with provincial sales tax collected but never remitted on the separate BC return. A late filing would have triggered a penalty of roughly $107,000 before interest. We worked backwards from the deadline. We recalculated the corporate tax at the 11% combined small business rate and rebased the instalments on the current year, prioritising the items that actually gated the filing and deferring everything that did not. The return was filed on time and complete. The $107,000 penalty never arose, and the compliance calendar we set means the next deadline is scheduled rather than discovered.
Case Study 2
13 Months Reconciled And $5,700 Of Input Tax Recovered — Sports Academy, Surrey
13 months of records at a sports academy in Surrey, British Columbia had never been reconciled, leaving input tax credits claimed against BC provincial tax, which is not recoverable the way GST is. Rebuilding recovered $5,700.
A sports academy in Surrey, British Columbia was carrying input tax credits claimed against BC provincial tax, which is not recoverable the way GST is. Nothing reconciled, and every filing started with 13 months of cleanup. We rebuilt from source rather than correcting on top of the existing file. We registered the provincial payroll account, caught up the outstanding remittances, and applied for relief on the penalty, then set the routine that keeps it clean. 13 months reconciled to the bank. The close now takes 9 days, and $5,700 of previously unclaimable input tax was recovered in the process.
Case Study 3
Remittance Schedule Corrected, $46,000 Refunded — Fintech Startup, Surrey
Remittances at a fintech startup in Surrey, British Columbia were chronically late because of a provincial payroll levy that had never been registered for or remitted. Fixing the schedule refunded $46,000.
Remittances at a fintech startup in Surrey, British Columbia were consistently late by a few days, which was enough to trigger penalties every quarter. Behind it sat a provincial payroll levy that had never been registered for or remitted. We assessed and claimed BC Small Business Venture Capital Tax Credit alongside the federal return, then moved the remittance dates into a scheduled process rather than a monthly decision. Penalties stopped from the following remittance onwards, and $46,000 of overpaid instalments was refunded.
Case Study 4
$56,000 Cut From The Annual Tax Bill — Land Development Company, Surrey
A land development company in Surrey, British Columbia was filing correctly and still overpaying because of sector-specific exposure the previous accountant had not seen before. Restructuring the position cut $56,000 from the annual bill.
A land development company in Surrey, British Columbia was compliant but paying more than it needed to. The prior year had been filed correctly and still left sector-specific exposure the previous accountant had not seen before on the table. We modelled the current position against the alternatives before changing anything, then assessed and claimed BC Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Credit alongside the federal return. The change saved $56,000 in the first year and repeats annually. Nothing about the filings became more aggressive; the position is simply the one the rules already allowed.
Case Study 5
Scaled To 54 Staff With $81,000 Of Working Capital Freed — Talent Management Agency, Surrey
Growth at a talent management agency in Surrey, British Columbia had outrun the back office, and instalments still calculated on a year the business had long outgrown broke first. Headcount reached 54 with $81,000 of cash freed.
A talent management agency in Surrey, British Columbia was growing fast — headcount to 54 in eighteen months — and the back office had not kept up. Instalments still calculated on a year the business had long outgrown was the first thing to break. We separated the federal GST and BC provincial sales tax streams, reconciled both to the sales ledger, and filed the corrected provincial returns, and built the compliance calendar for the size the business was becoming rather than the size it had been. The business reached 54 staff with no missed remittance and no late filing. $81,000 of working capital was freed in the process.
Case Study 6
$38,000 Proposed Adjustment Withdrawn In Full — Digital Product Agency, Surrey
A digital product agency in Surrey, British Columbia faced a $38,000 proposed reassessment after provincial sales tax collected but never remitted on the separate BC return. We rebuilt the documentation and the adjustment was withdrawn in full.
A digital product agency in Surrey, British Columbia received a proposal letter opening a review of its bc tax and accounting file. The CRA had identified provincial sales tax collected but never remitted on the separate BC return and proposed an adjustment of $38,000, with 30 days to respond. We treated the response as an evidence exercise rather than an argument. We recalculated the corporate tax at the 11% combined small business rate and rebased the instalments on the current year, then indexed every supporting document against the specific line the auditor had questioned. The proposed adjustment was withdrawn in full — all $38,000 of it. The file closed in 5 weeks with no change to the assessed amounts and no penalty.