A free 60-minute online session (Google Meet) for founders of any kind of business — service, retail, trades, consulting, tech — who are about to incorporate or did so in the last year. It runs during Small Business Week 2026.

Most founders incorporate with a $200 online form and a search engine, then pay to undo the result a year later: shares never properly issued, a minute book never started, an HST registration missed, personal expenses mixed into the company account. None of that is hard; it is simply never explained in one place, in plain language, before the decisions are made.

This session does that in an hour, with the current 2026 numbers.

You will leave with: a plain answer to “should I incorporate at all?” and “federal or Ontario?”; the eleven things corporate law actually requires you to keep and file; what to set up in the first month and what to file every year, with deadlines; a realistic budget for set-up and every year after; answers to the questions every new founder asks (moving assets you already own into the company without paying tax, the most common first-year mistakes, what a compilation report is, salary vs. dividends); and a plain rule for when you need an accountant.

Every attendee receives a four-page founder checklist. Presented by Wei Jiang, CPA — Levante (withlevante.com), former Big Four tax manager, based in Ottawa. Education, not a sales pitch. Register free at

https://luma.com/uirfh6v4

This event is not affiliated with Invest Ottawa and is independently organized by a third party.