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.
Prince Edward Island’s annual return
Prince Edward Island’s registry filing is the annual return. Its clock is the registration itself, not the meeting and not the year end. It is due by the expiry date each year. The registry gives six months past that date to get the return in. Past that date, the registration stands inactive.
File it through the Online Corporate and Business Registry (OCBR). The return states the names and addresses of the company’s officers and directors as they stand. The year’s fee is $20, and it rides with the return.
The province’s renewal also asks for the company’s CRA Business Number or PEI Registration Number, and the name of the auditor appointed at the annual meeting. A company is started under Part II with a registration fee of $180 — $125 for registration, $40 for the name search and $15 for publication.
The registry sends the year’s return by email to the contact on file. One absence is worth naming: the province charges no sales tax of its own. The sales tax here is the HST, in the federal layer.
Check the expiry date
The return runs on the registration’s own expiry date, not on the meeting and not on the year end. It stands due by that date each year. The registry allows six months past it to complete the return before the registration stands inactive for non-payment.
The registry sends the year’s return by email to the contact address on file. Find the expiry date first: a return left past its window leaves the registration inactive.
(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 the names and addresses of its officers and directors as they stand on the People page — the return the Act names states those.
Check those facts first: a director who left in March and still stands on the list is an error the registry keeps.
The province’s renewal asks for two facts the return does not name: the company’s CRA Business Number or its PEI Registration Number, and the name of the auditor appointed at the annual meeting. Have both at hand before the filing is started. The return is the registry’s form.
Its part is that the facts stand true in the books.
(Done on the People page.)
Send the return to the Corporate Registry
The filing itself happens at the Corporate Registry, not in this app. It is done in the Online Corporate and Business Registry (OCBR): sign in, open the company, start the corporate annual return and file it with the facts the last step read, with the $20 filing fee.
Save the confirmation 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 and the confirmation the registry gave, in the confirmation field. Next year, the treasurer finds the proof here — not in a predecessor’s inbox.
The Tax page shows it among the year’s filings.
(Done on the Governance page.)