Kitchener-Waterloo based · Serving real estate teams and brokerages across Canada.
Four kinds of people to pay, three sets of rules, and one deadline that does not move.
We run all of it. Staff, agents, Canadian contractors and your assistants overseas. You approve each run, we file the remittance, and you go back to work.
Six things, all on one schedule, all reconciled to the same set of books.
Admin, ISAs, marketing coordinators, transaction coordinators, listing managers. Salary or hourly, semi-monthly or biweekly, source deductions calculated and remitted on time. Vacation pay tracked properly rather than promised and forgotten.
Usually paid semi-monthly, in their currency, through whatever transfer service someone set up two years ago. We bring them into the same accounts payable run as everyone else. Invoices collected, payments released on your approval, exchange differences recorded, expense sitting where it belongs.
Photographers, stagers, videographers, anyone genuinely running their own business. Paid through accounts payable, tracked, and issued T4As where required, which is a slip most teams do not know exists until the CRA asks about it.
Not payroll, but it has to tie to payroll and to your financial statements. Commission paid through the brokerage, reconciled against your production report, recorded so it lands in the right place.
Salary, dividends, or a mix, set deliberately rather than by whatever happened last year. It is a tax decision before it is a payroll one, and we look at it as part of your year end planning.
T4s and T4As prepared, filed and distributed before the deadline. Payroll reconciled to your financial statements and to the corporate return, because the same firm prepares all three.
If you are not certain whether your coordinator should be on the first card or the third, that is a five minute conversation and worth having before the CRA asks. The reassessment lands on the business, not on the person who was paid.
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We look at who is on whatEvery person you pay, and how. If anyone is classified in a way that would not survive a CRA look, you hear about it early, along with what to do about it. |
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We set it up once, properlyPayroll connected to your accounting file so the two agree by design. CRA payroll account registered if you do not have one. Pay schedules, deductions and remittance frequency configured to your business. |
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You approve, we run itEach period we prepare the run and send it for approval. You confirm, it goes out, and the remittance is filed. Your only job is to tell us about changes. |
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Year end happens without youT4s and T4As prepared, filed and distributed on time. Payroll reconciled to the financial statements and to the corporate return, because the same firm prepares all three. |
It depends on how the relationship actually works, not on what either of you calls it. We will look at yours and tell you where it sits, and what to do if it needs changing.
Almost never. Agents are typically paid commission through the brokerage under their own arrangement. What matters is that those payments are recorded correctly in your books and reconcile to your production report, which is a separate piece of work we also handle.
It is a tax question, and the answer changes with your corporate income, your personal income, your RRSP room and what you plan to do with the corporation. We look at it as part of your year end planning rather than defaulting to whatever happened last year.
Yes. They go through the same accounts payable run as your Canadian suppliers. Invoices collected, payments scheduled, released on your approval, exchange differences handled, expense recorded correctly. The treatment is usually straightforward provided it is set up properly, and we will tell you what applies to your arrangement.
Not necessarily. If it works and it connects cleanly to your accounting file, we will run it in your existing system. If it does not reconcile, we will tell you why and what moving would involve.
Yes, and it is more common than you would think. We deal with the CRA directly, get the account current, and set it up so it does not happen again. Say so on the first call so we know what we are dealing with.
Included, with the number of staff varying by tier. See how our pricing works.
A 25 minute call. Tell us who you pay and how, and we will tell you what it takes to hand the whole thing over.