Incorporating Your Company

Advantages of Incorporation

Disadvantages of Incorporation

Name Approval	Your Name Approval form can be submitted to any Government Agent office, at the nearest OneStop service delivery station or by mail. You may also get your Name Request Online by following a few easy steps.

Incorporation Application Overview	Background information to incorporating your company.

Incorporate Your Company	How to incorporate your company. Be sure to read carefully due to the complexity of incorporating your business.

BC Business Incorporation Act	The business incorporation act outlines the legalities of incorporating your company.

Incorporation Application	Incorporation application is a downloadable application to incorporate your company.

Steps to Incorporating Your Company	Steps to incorporate your company outlines the necessary steps to becoming a separate entity with limited liability.

Incorporation Fees	The incorporation fees outlines all the costs of incorporating your company.

Incorporating Your Extraprovincial Company

Use this form to register as an extraprovincial company.

The Maintaining your extraprovincial company explains your obligated duties in running an extraprovincial incorporation in BC.

Federally Incorporate Your Company

Federal Business Incorporation Act	The federal business incorporation act outlines the legalities of incorporating your company at the federal level.

Form 1 Articles of Incorporation	Use this form to register as an extraprovincial company.

Setting up Share Structure	What you need to know in order to set up your company's share structure.

Corporations Canada	Corporations Canada will help you in understanding what is needed and assist you in the process of incorporating at the federal level.