The Ottawa Business Journal’s second Business Survival Guide provided a series of articles with insights from experts on a range of topics, from maintaining employee morale during a period of layoffs, to understanding when to outsource, handling commercial leases, managing the books and getting the most out of a marketing budget.
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OBJ Business Survival Guide, Part I
by Survive and Thrive - Monday, July 13th, 2009The Ottawa Business Journal’s first Business Survival Guide provided a series of articles with insights from experts on a range of topics, from handling economic downdrafts as a technology company, to mitigating the impact of volatile commodity prices on your cash flow, managing facilities costs and financing options for startups.
Export Tutorial from Entrepreneurship Centre
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009This 30 minute online tutorial is designed to help you understand the issues that you need to consider in order to prepare yourself for international trade. Developed in conjunction with Export Development Canada, this tutorial will highlight the key questions that you need answered before you make the decision to export. The session is facilitated [...]
Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit (AJCTC)
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009The Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit (AJCTC) is a non-refundable federal tax credit equal to 10 per cent of the eligible salaries and wages payable to eligible apprentices in respect of employment after May 1, 2006. The maximum credit is $2,000 per year for each eligible apprentice.
Any business that hires an “eligible apprentice,” can qualify for the credit. [...]
NRC IRAP Program
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009The NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) provides a range of both technical and business oriented advisory services, along with potential financial support, to growth-oriented Canadian small and medium enterprises.
CRA Guidelines on Tax Instalments
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009A business or self-employed individual must pay income taxes by quarterly or monthly instalments. Many taxpayers elect to pay instalments that are based on the level of income their business earned in the previous tax year. But if you are having a weak year, this means you are paying more tax than you will owe [...]
CRA Guidelines on Loss Carrybacks
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009If a business incurred a non-capital loss in its current fiscal year, or did have a loss last year, it can carry this loss back and apply it against a profit it made in any one of its previous three tax years. Applying this loss against a profitable year will provide a refund of some portion of the taxes that were paid [...]
CRA Voluntary Disclosures Program
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009The Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP) allows taxpayers to come forward and correct inaccurate or incomplete information or to disclose information they have not reported during previous dealings with the CRA, without penalty or prosecution.
A disclosure may be made for Income Tax and Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax (GST/HST) purposes, as well as for charges under [...]
Select Government Programs for Business at ‘Invest in Ontario’
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Invest in Ontario is a program of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade that includes on its website a directory of government programs and incentives that may be of interest to international and domestic firms.
Google Analytics
by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Google Analytics is Google’s enterprise-class web analytics solution that provides insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
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