Annual filing
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Every society files with its province’s registry once a year. What the filing asks, when it is due, and the walk through it, province by province.
Manitoba’s annual return
Manitoba’s registry filing is the annual return. Its clock is the month of the corporation’s incorporation, not the meeting and not the year end. The Companies Office sends the return during that month. It is due by the end of the following month.
File it through the Companies Office’s online service, or on the form the Office sends. The return states the corporation as it stands: its directors, its officers and its registered office. The filing fee is $65.
A corporation that does not file its annual returns for two consecutive years will be dissolved.
Manitoba charges a sales tax of its own beside the federal GST: the retail sales tax, at 7%. Its registration and its returns run through Manitoba Finance, on the province’s own road, not on the GST/HST return.
Check the month of incorporation
The return runs on the month of the corporation’s incorporation, not on the meeting and not on the year end. The Companies Office sends the return during that month, and it stands due by the end of the following month.
Find the month first: a corporation that does not file its annual returns for two consecutive years will be dissolved.
(Done on the Governance page.)
Prepare the return from the books’ facts
The return carries the corporation as the books hold it: its legal name, its directors and officers as they stand on the People page, and its registered office.
Check those facts first: a director who left in March and still stands on the list is an error, and the registry will keep it. A director, officer or agent of the corporation signs the return and certifies it correct. The return is the registry’s form.
The app’s part is that the facts stand true in the books.
(Done on the People page.)
Send the return to the Companies Office
Filing happens at the Companies Office, not in this app. It is filed through the Companies Office’s online service, or on the form the Office sent, with the facts the last step read. The filing fee is $65. Save the proof of filing the Office gives — the next step records it.
This step is done in the world.
(Done on the by hand page.)
Record the filing in the books
Record the filing in the corporation’s governance records: a record of kind Filing, saying the annual return for the year was filed, with the day it was filed. Keep the proof of filing the registry gave in the confirmation field.
The treasurer who follows finds the proof here, not in a predecessor’s inbox. The Tax page lists it among the year’s filings.
(Done on the Governance page.)