Fiscal year-end
Your fiscal year is the tax year or financial year of your business. You will usually use a calendar year (January 1st to December 31st) if you are in one of these groups:
- individuals and certain trusts;
- professional corporations that are members of a partnership (accountants, lawyers, or doctors); or
- partnerships where at least one member is an individual.
However, some people use non-calendar taxation years:
- if you are an individual or a trust that uses a non-calendar tax year, you may want to use that same year for your GST/HST fiscal year; or
- if you are a member of a partnership, you may want to use the same fiscal year for GST/HST as your partnership's tax year.
A corporation has two options. You can use a calendar year for your GST/HST account or you can use the same year-end as your corporation income tax account.
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