Hey Travis, in this case the tax either needs to be paid either personally or thru your corp. it sounds like your brokerage accountant is being difficult which means a less than ideal situation (personal rather than corp). Your accountant is right, once CRA gets that T4A with your name on it they won't eve let it go (without an amended one, which you can't seem to get). Talk to whoever does the books for your corp - if the income wasn't in the the corp it shouldn't be recorded in there. That's a simple acct fix (ie acct entry). In this case if you received the cheques then out them into the corp it would be a shareholder loan, so eliminate the income and the other side is the shareholder loan.
You won't be double taxed, or triple taxed, but CRA will want their tax $ from you personally.
In the future, and I'm sure you know this already, I'd run all professional income (and expenses) thru your corp. I haven't seen the numbers but likely a lower rate and then you can tax plan within the corp via either dividends or salary. Or a mix of both. Your accountant should know about this. If you receive any cheques in your name and not your corp I wouldn't cash them as that's the issue here
Good luck!
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