Canada LP

The path from first call to live partnership, in order:

1. Initial consultation and engagement — 2. Settlement of the invoice — 3. For remote setups, notarisation of the power of attorney on your side — 4. We prepare the registration documents — 5. Signing before the notary — 6. The LP is valid on the register immediately.

5–10 working days for the registration; run fully remotely, plan on about two weeks end to end — courier time for the original power of attorney included.

Fully remote on a notarised power of attorney: we draft it for your chosen services, you certify it, we verify the scan, and you courier us the physical original. Good news the competition hasn't caught up with: Canada joined the Hague Apostille Convention in January 2024 — so a single apostille stamp now does what used to demand full consular legalisation.

Three things get the file moving: three name options for the LP plus a contact email; the names, addresses and emails of all partners; and a short description of the activity. That's the whole intake form.

Passport scans of all partners, plus the beneficial owner where applicable; the power of attorney for remote registration; and certified corporate documents where a partner is itself a foreign company.

A Canadian LP is a flow-through structure: the partnership itself owes no corporate tax. Tax lands on the partners instead — and only where Canada has a claim: if a partner is a Canadian resident, or the profit was generated on Canadian soil. Foreign partners earning foreign profits sit outside both conditions, so that income is simply not taxed in Canada. G7 paper, offshore arithmetic.

Canada maintains bilateral double-taxation conventions with over 90 countries — the USA, UK, Germany, France, Romania, China, Japan, Australia, the UAE and most of the developed world — plus tax information exchange agreements with a dozen offshore centres including the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman and St Kitts. One of the deepest treaty networks any structure on this site can stand behind.

Because the LP is not a distinct legal entity, it files no returns of any kind to the administrations. Keep your internal books in order for the partners' own purposes — and that's the entire compliance calendar.

No residency requirements, 100% foreign ownership allowed. No physical office needed — just a registered address (PO boxes don't qualify), which we provide along with local specialists on the ground. And nominee partners are permitted, structured properly through a mandate.