Case Study 1
$42,000 In Credits Claimed That Prior Filings Had Missed — Moving and Storage Company, Brampton
4 years of filings at a moving and storage company in Brampton, Ontario had never claimed the incentives the work qualified for. The review recovered $42,000.
A moving and storage company in Brampton, Ontario had been filing for 4 years without ever claiming the incentives its activity qualified for. Behind that sat Ontario incentives claimed by competitors and never by this business. We tested each activity against the eligibility criteria rather than the description on the invoice, then recalculated the corporate tax at the 12.2% combined small business rate and rebased the instalments on the current year. $42,000 in credits claimed, with the open prior years adjusted as well. The claim passed review without adjustment.
Case Study 2
11-Week Turnaround Beat The Deadline And Saved $51,000 — E-Learning Platform, Brampton
A 11-week rebuild at an e-learning platform in Brampton, Ontario got the filing in with 18 days to spare, avoiding $51,000 in penalties.
With the deadline for its on tax and accounting file weeks away, an e-learning platform in Brampton, Ontario was carrying instalments still calculated on a year the business had long outgrown. The exposure if the date slipped was around $51,000. We rebuilt the sales ledger by customer location, applied the correct place-of-supply rate to each stream, and filed the adjusted HST returns. The filing went in complete rather than provisional, so there was no amended return to follow. Filed with 18 days to spare. $51,000 in late-filing penalties avoided, and the working papers are ready for the following year.
Case Study 3
$136,000 Reassessment Reduced To Nil On Review — Mortgage Brokerage, Brampton
A $136,000 reassessment was proposed against a mortgage brokerage in Brampton, Ontario following sector-specific exposure the previous accountant had not seen before. The documented response reduced it to nil.
A review notice arrived at a mortgage brokerage in Brampton, Ontario covering its on tax and accounting file for two tax years. The auditor's working position was an adjustment of $136,000, driven by sector-specific exposure the previous accountant had not seen before. Rather than negotiate, we rebuilt the record. We assessed and claimed Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit alongside the federal return and submitted a point-by-point response that answered each proposed adjustment with the document behind it. The auditor accepted the documented position and closed the review without adjustment, protecting $136,000 and leaving the prior filings undisturbed.
Case Study 4
$11,000 Of Penalties And Interest Cancelled On Relief — Recruitment Firm, Brampton
A recruitment firm in Brampton, Ontario was carrying $11,000 of penalties and interest from a provincial payroll levy that had never been registered for or remitted. A relief application cancelled it.
An assessment of $11,000 landed at a recruitment firm in Brampton, Ontario following a desk review. The auditor had not seen the records behind a provincial payroll levy that had never been registered for or remitted. We assessed and claimed Ontario Innovation Tax Credit alongside the federal return, then set out the legislative basis for the position alongside the documents supporting it. $11,000 of penalties and interest was cancelled under the taxpayer relief provisions, and the underlying assessment was adjusted to match the filed position.
Case Study 5
Second-Province Expansion Handled, $71,000 Of Cash Released — Owner-Operator Trucking Corporation, Brampton
An owner-operator trucking corporation in Brampton, Ontario expanded into a second province carrying out-of-province sales billed at the ON rate instead of the customer’s. Every obligation was set up in advance and $71,000 of cash released.
Revenue at an owner-operator trucking corporation in Brampton, Ontario was up sharply and cash was tighter than ever. Underneath it sat out-of-province sales billed at the ON rate instead of the customer’s. We registered the provincial payroll account, caught up the outstanding remittances, and applied for relief on the penalty. Every new obligation — registration, remittance frequency, provincial filing — was set up before it was triggered, not after. $71,000 of cash was released from the working capital cycle, and the expansion completed with every registration and filing obligation covered from day one.
Case Study 6
Reorganisation Completed Tax-Deferred, $42,000 Saved Each Year — Data Analytics Consultancy, Brampton
A data analytics consultancy in Brampton, Ontario had outgrown its structure, with 13% HST charged on every sale regardless of where the customer was located the visible cost. The reorganisation completed tax-deferred and saves $42,000 a year.
A data analytics consultancy in Brampton, Ontario had outgrown the structure it started with. 13% HST charged on every sale regardless of where the customer was located was the immediate problem; the longer-term one was that the structure blocked the next step. We mapped the current structure, modelled the target, and recalculated the corporate tax at the 12.2% combined small business rate and rebased the instalments on the current year — with the tax-deferred elections filed on time and the supporting valuations documented. The reorganisation completed without triggering tax, and the new structure saves approximately $42,000 a year while removing the exposure the old one carried.