Experience
At Johnston, Johnston & Associates Ltd., we provide a wide range of accounting and tax services to our business and personal clients.
We are experienced in a broad range of industries and with a wide variety of clients from small to large businesses, not-for-profits, strata corporations, real estate, commercial fishing, automotive, professionals, retail, construction, and land development. We provide a variety of accounting, assurance and tax services in all areas, including (but not limited to) accounting and financial statement preparation, preparation of corporate taxes, GST, PST and government filings, payroll, tax planning, estate and succession planning, family trusts, corporate reorganizations and non-resident filings.
We are experienced with all levels of engagements including Notice to Reader, Review and Audit Engagements.
Corporate
At Johnston, Johnston & Associates Ltd. we provide business owners with help through all stages of your business. From start-up to incorporation, reorganization, estate and succession planning to selling and wind-up. Along the way, we can provide management advisory services to help your company grow and succeed. Where necessary, we will work with other professionals of your choice, or with professionals that we regularly work closely with, to ensure that you are getting the best information and service possible. We have developed great relationships with lawyers that specialize in tax and real estate and with bankers that can help provide financing where needed.
Corporate services include (but are not limited to):
- Incorporation
- Corporate reorganization
- Financial statement preparation (Notice to Reader, Review and Audit engagements)
- Trust, Legal and Property Management Audits
- Other assurance services or reporting requirements
- Forensic reviews
- Corporate tax planning
- Response to government audits or requests for information
- Management advisory services
- Finance negotiations
- Assistance with acquisitions, mergers and sales.
- Estate and financial planning
- Succession planning
- Controllership
- Full cycle bookkeeping
- Government reporting for GST, PST, Corporate tax and payroll
Personal
At Johnston, Johnston & Associates Ltd., we are able to provide services to all tax payers for Canadian tax filings. Our focus is on complex personal tax returns, non-resident Canadian tax filings and personal tax returns prepared for our corporate clients. If you have concerns that you are not receiving all of the deductions and tax credits that you are entitled to, please come and see us for a consultation.
Personal services include (but are not limited to):
- Personal tax planning
- General personal tax returns
- Self-employment income and government reporting (GST, PST, payroll)
- Statement of rental activities
- Investments
- Pension splitting
- Application for additional tax credits
- Incorporation considerations
- Estate returns
- Applications for clearance certificates
- Response to government audits or requests for information
- T2062 filings for Non-Residents selling Canadian Property.
- Divorce settlements
- Estate and financial planning
- Wills review