Resources – Business corporations
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To support you and your corporation, we provide a list of guides, forms, policies, models, as well as legislation and related documents.
Guides
- Guide on amalgamating business corporations
- Back-to-back requests – Federal corporations and cooperatives
- Guide on amending articles
- Guide on dissolving a business corporation
- Certificates of compliance and certificates of existence
- Provincial registration of federal business corporations
- Request copies of corporate documents
Policies
- arrangements – Canada Business Corporations Act, section 192, Policy on
- cancellation of articles or certificates – Canada Business Corporations Act, Policy on
- continuance (export) of a federal corporation, Policy on
- continuance (import) of a body corporate into the Canada Business Corporations Act, Policy on
- corrections of articles or certificates – Canada Business Corporations Act, Policy on
- Exemption from the filing of certain documents (single filing exemption) – Canada Business Corporations Act
- filing of annual returns – Canada Business Corporations Act, Policy on
- requests for corrections of Forms 2, 3, 6 and 22 – Canada Business Corporations Act, Policy on
- reviving a business corporation, Policy on
- Overview of exemption policies – Canada Business Corporations Act
- exempting a corporation from a financial disclosure requirement – Canada Business Corporations Act, section 156, Policy on
- exempting interested persons from the dissident proxy solicitation requirements – Canada Business Corporations Act, subsection 151(1), Policy on
- exempting a distributing corporation from having an audit committee – Canada Business Corporations Act, subsection 171(2), Policy on
- exempting a trust indenture from Part VIII – Canada Business Corporations Act, subsection 82(3), Policy on
- exempting interested persons from the management proxy solicitation requirements – Canada Business Corporations Act, subsection 151(1), Policy on
- making a determination that a corporation is not a distributing corporation – Canada Business Corporations Act, subsection 2(6), Policy on
- Guidelines on remedies and complaints – Canada Business Corporations Act
- Oppression remedy guidelines – Canada Business Corporations Act
Related information
- Glossary for the Canada Business Corporations Act
- Monthly transactions
- Federal corporation forms and instructions
- Frequently asked questions
- Provincial registration of federal business corporations
- Provincial and territorial registrar websites
- Business taxes
- Trademarks
- System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval
Legislation and other related documents
- Corporations Canada consultations
- Canada Business Corporations Act
- Canada Business Corporations Regulations, 2001
- Analysis of the changes to the Canada Business Corporations Act (section by section)
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