How do you file the income tax, do you use a program for that? I have a BC company and it cost me $450 last year to file a non operating tax of $0. I'd love to know how to do it myself.
You can do corporate taxes with the usual programs like ufile or turbotax, there may be other options.
These are different versions than the personal one, so you have to pick the right option based on your business type. If you are incorporated it might force you into the more expensive option, but last time I did that I think it was about $99.
On the other hand you can always do it by hand for free. If you are just keeping an entity alive, it's probably pretty simple; more complicated if you are using it for deductions etc. I imagine once you have done 1 year, the next are almost cut and paste.
I download fillable PDFs. As long as your income (or was it revenues?) is under $1M/year you're allowed to file on paper.
Corporate tax forms change very little from one year to the next, so you can complete 99% of next year's tax return by "look at last year's return and put numbers in the same places". When all the numbers are zeroes, it's even easier.
