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.
New Brunswick’s annual return
New Brunswick’s registry filing is the annual return. Its clock is the anniversary month — the month of the year that is the same as the month the company was incorporated — not the meeting and not the year end. The return is due within the month after that month.
File it through the Corporate Registry — Service New Brunswick, or on the form the Registry sends about thirty days before the anniversary month. The return states the company as it stands on its anniversary date: its officers and directors as they stand.
Most companies pay no annual return fee. A company that fails to file its annual returns may be dissolved. The province charges no sales tax of its own. The sales tax here is the HST, in the federal layer.
Check the anniversary month
The return runs on the company’s anniversary month — the month of the year that is the same as the month the company was incorporated — not on the meeting and not on the year end. It stands due within the month after that month.
The Registry sends the year’s form about thirty days before the anniversary month. Find the anniversary month first: a company that fails to file its annual returns may be dissolved.
(Done on the Governance page.)
Prepare the return from the books’ facts
The return carries the company as the books hold it: its legal name and its officers and directors as they stand on the People page, as at the anniversary date.
Check those facts first: a director who left in March and still stands on the list — that is an error the registry will keep. The return is the registry’s form. The app’s part is only that its facts stand true in the books.
(Done on the People page.)
Send the return to the Corporate Registry
The filing is made at the Corporate Registry, not in this app. It is filed with the Corporate Registry — Service New Brunswick: online, or on the form the Registry sent, with the facts the last step read. Most companies pay no annual return fee.
Save the proof of filing the Registry 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 company’s governance records: a record of kind Filing, saying the annual return for the year was filed, with the day it was filed. The proof of filing the registry gave goes in the confirmation field.
Next year’s treasurer will find the proof here, not in a predecessor’s inbox. The Tax page holds it in the year’s filings.
(Done on the Governance page.)