Corporate Fee Quote
Incorporation and corporate fees, before you call
Pick what your company needs, and you see our flat fee for each item, the HST and any filing or government fee. An Ontario incorporation is $1,000 for a numbered company or $1,250 for a named company, including the $300 Ontario filing fee and, for a named company, the NUANS search. HST applies to the balance, not to the $300, and a $125 Dye & Durham filing fee, with no HST, is added to every incorporation. All in, that’s $1,216.00 numbered or $1,498.50 named.
No retainer. No deposit. Invoiced after the work is delivered. The lawyer who incorporates your company is the one who keeps its minute book and drafts its shareholder agreement.
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Legal fees are the ones on our published fee schedule. Government fees are the Ontario Business Registry fees in force today. Neither they nor the $125 Dye & Durham filing fee on an incorporation carry HST.
Barbarian Law® · 14981 Yonge Street, Aurora · (647) 290-3565 · barbarianlaw.ca
Your estimate
A named company incorporation
- Named corporation, NUANS search and $300 Ontario filing fee included$1,250.00
- HST on the legal fees, not on the $300 filing fee$123.50
- Dye & Durham filing fee, no HST$125.00
Flat fees are our published prices and the figures in your written estimate.
Billed at $350 an hour against a written estimate instead: minute book updates, amendments, complex shareholder terms, and deals over $1 million or with real estate or financing.
Corporate fees in one table
Flat fees plus HST, for an Ontario corporation. HST isn’t charged on the $300 Ontario filing fee inside the incorporation price, or on the Dye & Durham filing fee.
| Service | Fee |
|---|---|
| Incorporation, numbered company, $300 Ontario filing fee included | $1,000 |
| Incorporation, named company, NUANS search and filing fee included | $1,250 |
| Dye & Durham filing fee, on every incorporation, no HST | $125 |
| Annual maintenance: resolutions, annual return, minute book storage | $425 a year |
| Annual return filing only | $87.50 |
| Notice of change: directors, officers, registered office | $175 |
| Business name registration, plus the $60 Ontario fee | $87.50 |
| Shareholder agreement, up to 3 shareholders, one round of revisions | $2,000 |
| Each additional shareholder | $250 |
| Business purchase or sale under $1 million, agreement review | $1,500 |
| Business purchase or sale under $1 million: agreement, due diligence review and closing | from $5,000 |
| Minute book updates, amendments, complex shareholder terms, deals over $1 million | $350 an hour |
| Incorporation with the first year of maintenance, numbered or named | $1,300 or $1,550 |
Maintenance renews each year with your written consent. Maintenance, filings and business purchases and sales are plus disbursements, at cost. Government fees from the Ontario Business Registry’s fee list, updated September 29, 2026. Prices as published on our fees page on November 4, 2026.
What the flat fees cover
One price for each piece of legal work. Third-party costs are passed through at cost and itemized on your account.
Included
- Articles of incorporation, with the $300 Ontario filing fee
- A share structure, by-laws and the initial resolutions
- A complete minute book
- The NUANS search on a named company
- Maintenance: annual resolutions, the annual return and minute book storage
- Shareholder agreement: up to three shareholders and one round of revisions
Added at cost, or billed hourly
- HST on our fees, but not on the $300 Ontario filing fee
- The $125 Dye & Durham filing fee on every incorporation, with no HST
- The $60 Ontario fee to register a business name
- Searches and other disbursements on a business purchase or sale
- Articles of amendment: the $150 Ontario fee, with the work at $350 an hour
- Minute book updates and complex shareholder terms, at $350 an hour against a written estimate
From quote to filed
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The fees above are the figures in your written estimate. You don’t need a call to find out what we charge.
Book a call
Thirty minutes with Karim Eshqoor about what the business does, who owns it and what’s coming next.
We file, then invoice
Your documents are drafted and filed, and the invoice follows once the work is delivered.
Pick a time
A 30-minute call with Karim Eshqoor. If you book from your estimate, its details are added to the booking, so the call starts where you left off.
Prefer to call? (647) 290-3565, or email karim@barbarianlaw.ca.
Questions about the quote
Is the Ontario filing fee included?
Yes. Both incorporation prices include the $300 Ontario filing fee, with no HST on that $300, and the named-company price includes the NUANS search. A $125 Dye & Durham filing fee, also without HST, is added to every incorporation, so a numbered company comes to $1,216.00 all in and a named company to $1,498.50. Registering a business name has its own $60 Ontario fee. Ontario charges nothing to file an annual return or a notice of change.
What’s the difference between a numbered and a named company?
A numbered company uses its Ontario corporation number as its name and is $1,000. A named company is $1,250, including the NUANS search that checks your proposed name against existing names. Both prices include the $300 Ontario filing fee, and both carry HST on the balance plus the $125 Dye & Durham filing fee. A numbered company can still trade under a registered business name, for $87.50 + HST plus the $60 Ontario fee.
What does annual maintenance include?
The annual resolutions, the annual return and minute book storage, for $425 + HST a year per corporation. It renews each year only with your written consent. If you only need the annual return filed, that’s $87.50 + HST.
How is a shareholder agreement priced?
$2,000 + HST covers up to three shareholders and one round of revisions, and each additional shareholder is $250 + HST. Complex shareholder terms are billed at $350 an hour against a written estimate, and you see the estimate before the work starts.
What does buying or selling a business cost?
For a deal under $1 million, a review of the agreement is $1,500 + HST, and the full purchase or sale, asset or share, with the agreement, the due diligence review and the closing, is from $5,000 + HST. A deal over $1 million, or one with real estate or financing, is billed at $350 an hour against a written estimate. Searches and other disbursements are extra, at cost.
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Karim Eshqoor, Barrister & Solicitor and Notary Public (LSO #83032R). Barbarian Law®, 14981 Yonge Street, Aurora, Ontario. Legal fees match barbarianlaw.ca/fees and are confirmed in a written estimate before work begins. Ontario government fees as listed by the Ontario Business Registry on September 29, 2026. This page is general information, not legal advice.