Once your corporation is successfully incorporated, we’ll email you detailed next steps along with your key documents (e.g., Articles of Incorporation and Certificate of Incorporation). The process depends on whether you incorporated in Ontario or federally:
If you incorporated in Ontario (provincially):
Initial return filing – Within 60 days, you must confirm your business details with the Ontario Business Registry. This is usually a simple confirmation unless critical details have changed.
Set up an Ontario Business Registry profile – This lets you access your Ontario Corporation Number (OCN), which is required for tax filing and other purposes.
Set up a CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) profile – This is needed for taxes and other federal requirements.
If you incorporated federally:
Register in each province – Federal corporations must also register in each province where they operate. With the Venn “Incorporation Product”, we can support Ontario and federal registration. For other provinces, you’ll need to register directly with their provincial business registry.
Create an ISED (Innovation, Science and Economic Development) Canada account – This is required to manage your federal corporation profile.
Important: Once a corporation is set up through Venn, full ownership and management are transferred to the true account owners, who are responsible for all future filings and ongoing management of the corporation.