How to keep corporate records after incorporating

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1. Incorporation is the beginning of a paper trail

   Ontario Business Corporations Act companies keep articles, by-laws, director registers and shareholder registers.

2. The registered office is where official mail can go

   Changing it is a filing, not a social-media update.

3. Contracts should use the corporation’s legal name

   Signing personally can put you back on the hook.

4. Annual resolutions and tax filings are different calendars

   Missing one does not excuse the other.

5. Dissolving or selling the company is a new process

   Do not assume the corporation vanishes because operations stopped.

Official law on this site: business-law-in-ontario.

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