Ceasing operations? Close your file at the register properly.
A sole proprietorship, a partnership or an out-of-province enterprise that stops carrying on business in Québec must apply to the enterprise registrar to cancel its registration.
We check the state of your file, prepare the cancellation declaration and file it with the registrar. As an accredited intermediary, we can reach your file without a clicSÉQUR code.
Please note: to wind up a Québec business corporation, what you need is dissolution instead. See our dissolution service.
Your registered sole proprietorship is no longer being operated.
The general partnership or undeclared partnership is coming to an end.
Your out-of-province enterprise is ceasing to operate here.
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You send us the information your file requires, simply and online.
The lawyer responsible for your file prepares the declaration and makes the required filing.
The official confirmation of cancellation is sent to you by email as soon as processing is complete.
The service is $299 plus taxes, for a total of $343.78. It covers the voluntary cancellation of the registration of a sole proprietorship or a partnership with the registrar.
When you permanently stop operating your sole proprietorship or your partnership in Québec. Cancellation ends your obligations to update and to pay fees to the register.
Cancellation applies to the registration of a sole proprietorship or a partnership. Dissolution, by contrast, ends the existence of a business corporation. If you are winding up a business corporation, see our dissolution service.
It is prudent to close your tax accounts, file your final tax returns and settle your obligations to creditors. The lawyer will set out the steps that apply to your situation.
Voluntary cancellation ends the registration. If you start up again later, a new registration will be necessary. Keep your business records for the periods the law requires.
Your file stays active with the registrar: the filing obligations and the fees keep accumulating, with penalties if you default. Voluntary cancellation spares you those pointless costs.
We normally prepare and file within 24 to 48 business hours, depending on how busy the period is. The issuance of official documents by the authorities, such as the Québec enterprise registrar or Corporations Canada, depends on those authorities’ own processing times.
You add the service to your cart and pay securely online. You then send us the necessary information, and the lawyer responsible for your file carries out the mandate. You receive your documents by email.
No. The AI assistant exists only to help you choose among our services; it has no legal effect. All legal work is performed by the lawyer responsible for your file, a member of the Barreau du Québec.
If you withdraw before the work begins, we refund you, less processing and billing administration fees of $100. No refund is possible once the work has begun. If we are not in a position to serve you, you are refunded in full.
Our article on cancellation of registration lists what does not close by itself: leases, permits, employer accounts.
In a general partnership, cancellation releases no one: see our article on the general partnership.
For a business corporation, it is dissolution is what to look at.
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