Your fee estimate: what will EverStone cost you?

How this fee estimate is built

There is no secret formula here, and nothing is averaged from other firms. The estimate starts at our published floor of $300 a month for monthly bookkeeping and adds for the things that genuinely take more time: transaction volume, payroll runs, and sales-tax filings. The typical incorporated client — monthly books, payroll, year-end T2 with financial statements and T5018s — lands at $450 to $650 a month, all in, and that published figure is what the ranges here are anchored to.

Personal tax is priced separately and starts at $100 for a T1 return. A self-employed return with business or rental schedules is commonly $250 to $450. Fractional controller work starts at $1,500 a month and fractional CFO work at $2,500 a month, both scoped to the deliverables you need.

Corporate tax on its own, a T2 without monthly bookkeeping — is quoted after a free consultation rather than estimated here, because the fee depends almost entirely on the state of the records we start from. That is an honest limit of a calculator, not a sales tactic.

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What is always included

• A fixed fee agreed in writing before any work begins, so the invoice matches the quote.
• One named CPA on your file. You are not handed to junior staff between filings.
• Year-round questions answered, not billed by the six-minute unit.
• Everything handled remotely: video or phone meetings, secure document exchange, e-signature. There is no office visit at any stage.