Accountant for Burnaby businesses
EverStone CPA is a British Columbia accounting firm serving Burnaby businesses entirely online — corporate tax, bookkeeping, payroll and plain advice from a Chartered Professional Accountant, at a fixed fee agreed before any work begins. Owners in Metrotown, Brentwood, Lougheed, Edmonds and the Big Bend are served the same way.
Who we help here: tech startups, manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and construction contractors who need someone fluent in BC’s two-tax GST and PST system.
Quick answer: Burnaby owners rarely need an accountant down the street — they need one who replies. EverStone works with Burnaby businesses entirely online from Abbotsford: corporate tax, bookkeeping, payroll, GST and PST, and salary-versus-dividend planning, all at a fixed fee agreed before any work starts. Published fees start at $100 for a personal return and $300 a month for bookkeeping.
Accounting fees for Burnaby businesses are the same published fees EverStone charges everywhere. Personal tax starts from $100, and monthly bookkeeping from $300 a month with GST and PST filing included. A fractional controller is from $1,500 a month and a fractional CFO from $2,500 a month. A single question can go to a 45-minute Advice Call for a flat $200 + GST. See the published fees.
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A BC-based CPA who works entirely online
EverStone is a British Columbia firm, so PST, the BC small business rate and the Employer Health Tax are rules we apply every filing period rather than look up. What differs from a traditional accounting relationship is that none of it needs a meeting room. A file for a studio near Brentwood runs exactly like one for a fabricator in the Big Bend.
Every client works with one Chartered Professional Accountant who knows their numbers year-round. Questions go by email first, with a video call when it helps. Documents come in through a secure upload link, returns are signed electronically, and the fee is fixed before any work starts.
BC’s two sales taxes in a Burnaby business
BC charges 5% GST and 7% PST as separate taxes with separate registrations. GST goes to the CRA on the GST34; PST goes to the BC Ministry of Finance on its own return. A Burnaby business can be fully compliant on one and quietly under-registered on the other. GST registration becomes mandatory once taxable sales pass $30,000 in four consecutive calendar quarters, and the filing period depends on revenue.
PST reaches further than most owners expect. It applies to goods, to some services and software, and to materials a contractor installs into real property. A tech company buying software licences and a renovation company buying fixtures can both owe PST they never planned for. The BC PST guide covers the basics, and current rates sit on the BC tax facts page.
Services for Burnaby businesses
- Corporate tax (T2) in Burnaby: the T2, year-end statements, the small business deduction and owner pay.
- Personal tax (T1) in Burnaby: owners, landlords and the self-employed, including T2125 and T776 schedules.
- Bookkeeping in Burnaby: monthly reconciliations with GST and PST kept apart.
- Payroll in Burnaby: CPP, EI premiums, remittances, T4s and WorkSafeBC.
- Business advisory and fractional CFO support for forecasting and lender conversations.
Burnaby’s main industries
Burnaby sits between Vancouver and the Tri-Cities, with Burrard Inlet to the north and the Fraser River to the south. Its economy runs from tech and game studios around Brentwood and Lougheed to light-industrial parks in the Big Bend, and from the shopping centres of Metrotown to the restaurant strips along Kingsway and Hastings. Each sector brings its own accounting questions, and each one has a page of its own covering the filings, records and taxes it deals with.
Tech startups need SR&ED claims on Form T661 and CCPC status protected through funding rounds. Manufacturers need inventory valued properly and equipment on the right CCA classes. Retailers need point-of-sale tax codes and stock counts they can trust. Restaurants need liquor PST, card tips and the nightly close straight. Contractors on Burnaby’s tower and renovation sites need T5018 slips, holdbacks and WorkSafeBC clearance letters handled.
What a Burnaby client’s year looks like
Most incorporated clients have a December year-end. The balance of corporate tax is due two or three months later, and the T2 six months after year-end. T4 and T5 slips are due by the last day of February, and personal returns by April 30, or June 15 for the self-employed. GST and PST filings land on their own schedules in between.
The work is spread deliberately: books kept current through the year, a planning conversation before year-end while decisions can still change the outcome, then the returns as confirmation rather than a scramble. Free deadline reminders keep the dates in front of you.
Getting set up, without a trip into town
Send an enquiry
Email what the business does and what is outstanding. You get a fixed, written quote before anything begins.
Send your records securely
Authorize EverStone through My Business Account and send records by secure upload link. We bring the books current.
Stay compliant all year
Filings go in on schedule, questions get answered by email, and planning happens before year-end.
Prepared and reviewed by a Chartered Professional Accountant at EverStone CPA, an Abbotsford CPA firm working remotely with small businesses and incorporated owners across British Columbia. Updated . About the firm · Send an enquiry
Which return applies to you
| If you are | You file |
|---|---|
| A sole proprietor | A T1 personal return with form T2125 for the business |
| An incorporated business | A T2 corporate return, with financial statement schedules |
| A partnership | A T5013 partnership return where required, plus each partner’s own return |
| Employed with a side business | A T1 that reports both the T4 income and the T2125 business |
| Sales tax where you operate | 5% GST plus 7% BC PST: two registrations, two returns |
Source: Should you incorporate?. General information, not advice.
Common questions from Burnaby owners
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Related services and local guides
Nearby cities, the rest of what we do for Burnaby businesses, and the reference pages behind this one.
Fees are fixed and agreed in writing before the work starts; the published fee page shows the starting points.
Ready to get your GST and PST filings sorted?
Get GST, BC PST and the year-end handled by a CPA who works with Burnaby businesses. Email enquiry, fixed quote, no trip into town.
Remote accounting from Abbotsford
EverStone works with Burnaby businesses virtually, from a base in Abbotsford. There are no Burnaby premises, and nobody on the ground there. Questions go by email first, with a video call when it helps, and paperwork moves by secure upload link and e-signature. The person who answers your question in March is the one who prepared the return in June. For the province-wide picture, see accounting in British Columbia.
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