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Note
- Some filing methods may not be available under each Act.
- Cooperative, Board of trade and Railway applications can be filed by email or mail only. Railway deposits can be filed through an external filing system.
- Corporations Canada does not acknowledge receipt of applications, except for online applications, or send back a copy of the forms filed.
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Methods of filing and payment
Method of filing |
Method of payment (if applicable) |
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Note: Once a payment is processed for an online transaction, no refund will be possible. Accepted credit cards:
Note: Debit is no longer an accepted as of November 19, 2022. |
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Accepted credit cards:
Include your corporation key in your email. Do not include your credit card information in your email:
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Mail |
Accepted credit cards:
Include your corporation key in your correspondence. Do not include your credit card information in your letter:
Cheque payable to the Receiver General for Canada |
Back-to-back requests
Back-to-back requestsFootnote ** are 2 or more related requests that need to be processed in a specific order, but not necessarily on the same date.
For example:
- a continuance, followed by an amalgamation involving the newly continued corporation
- an amalgamation, followed by another amalgamation involving the newly amalgamated corporation
- an amendment, followed by an amalgamation using the amended articles.
Requests that involve multiple corporations
All corporations involved in a request must exist under the applicable legislation before a certificate can be issued:
- Canada Business Corporations Act;
- Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act; or
- Canada Cooperative Act
In the case of back-to-back transactions, a corporation in a later transaction may only come into existence and get its certificate and articles after all earlier transactions are completed. For example, a continuance or amalgamation must occur before the second transaction.
What do you do if a statutory declaration is required to process a later transaction, but one of the corporations does not yet exist? In this case, Corporations Canada will contact you and arrange to receive those statutory declarations when they become available. You are strongly encouraged to use the model of statutory declaration to avoid issues with the statutory declarations becoming stale-dated.
Filing back-to-back requests by email or mail
We recommended that you provide all relevant documents in their final form either by email or mail (not online). Our Online Filing Centre is mainly dedicated to single transactions.
In your written correspondence, you should provide clear filing instructions for the requests, such as the order of processing and the desired effective dates for the certificates.