{"id":32099,"date":"2021-06-18T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=32099"},"modified":"2021-06-18T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:33:18","slug":"update-ontario-annual-information-returns-business-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2021\/06\/18\/update-ontario-annual-information-returns-business-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Ontario Annual Information Returns &#038; Business Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/ontario-business-registry#section-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annual Information Return<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/noteworthy\/2021\/05\/05\/change-to-ontario-annual-information-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Last month<\/a> we let you know about a change to the RC232 Annual Return. The return is no longer available from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and won&#8217;t be filed through CRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The additional update for you is that until further notice, Ontario corporations are temporarily exempt from the <em>Corporations Information Act <\/em>annual return filing requirement if the return is due during this period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/ontario.ca\/business-registry-setup\">here for email updates from the Ontario Business Registry<\/a> on when the temporary exemption will end and other related topics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New Ontario Business Registry<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ontario is working on a new digital business registry system. Businesses and not-for-profits will use the system for registration, filing and other transactions. It is intended to be simpler, faster and more convenient. Every business and not-for-profit that is registered, incorporated or licensed to carry on business in Ontario will have an online profile in the new registry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, the government is inviting some users to participate in trial sessions of the registry. Interested in participating in these pre-launch user-trial sessions?  Although the sessions have started, they will continue until at least July 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, with a possible extension through to July 30<sup>th<\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can indicate your interest by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/ontario-business-registry\">Ontario.ca\/BusinessRegistry<\/a> and clicking on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/ontario.ca\/participate-in-user-trials\">Register for user trials<\/a>.\u201d You\u2019ll need to provide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your name<\/li><li>Your email address<\/li><li>Your company name (if applicable)<\/li><li>Phone number<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The registry will be launched later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Information Return Last month we let you know about a change to the RC232 Annual Return. The return is no longer available from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and won&#8217;t be filed through CRA. The additional update for you is that until further notice, Ontario corporations are temporarily exempt from&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2021\/06\/18\/update-ontario-annual-information-returns-business-registry\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-32099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32099"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}