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Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
The HST will apply to goods and services purchased on or after July 1, 2010. For more information on the rules and general guidelines related to the HST, click here. Detailed information on how the HST will benefit business can be found here.
Parking Tax
Effective July 1, 2010, the responsibility for parking tax
payable at commercial parking lots within Metro Vancouver is
being transferred from the Social Service Tax Act to the South Coast British
Columbia Transportation Authority Act and administration of the tax is
being transferred to TransLink. For more information visit www.translink.ca/parkingtax
Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA)
Effective April 27, 2009, BC Registry Services implemented changes to Name Requests Online and Corporate Online to support streamlining extraprovincial registrations of corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and cooperative associations from British Columbia to Alberta as outlined in the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement.
For more details regarding this initiative, go to our Important News page. There you will find links to important information regarding TILMA and a list of frequently asked questions.
Now Available - Business
Name Requests Online!
For the past several years the number one comment the OneStop
Business Registry and BC Registry Services has received is “make
the reservation of a business name available online".
BC Registry Services has introduced a web-based Name Requests
Online system that will, for the first time, provide an online
business name reservation service for credit card and over-the-counter
customers. To submit a business name reservation through
Name Requests Online, go to www.bcregistryservices.gov.bc.ca/nro/.
BC Registry Services will continue to examine
names submitted through Name Requests Online, and the online
service will have built-in edits and validations that will
help:
- reduce the number of name rejections;
- reduce the number of telephone calls;
- reduce turnaround times;
- reduce user frustration;
- allow online submission of name approval requests for credit
card customers;
- simplify the process;
- remove the bottleneck; and
- facilitate the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement
(TILMA).
Customers may continue to reserve a name through our other multi-channel
service venues: phone, in person and mail. Clients can
visit any of the OneStop service delivery
sites or contact a
registry agent to submit their name requests. BC Registry Services
staff will continue to advise clients over-the-telephone and
on our web sites of the different options available to reserve
a name.
If you require further information, please contact 1 877-370-1033.
BC Liquor
Control and Licensing Branch Services
Now Available Through
OneStop!
In July 2006, the BC Liquor Control and Licensing Branch partnered
with the OneStop Business Registry to save owners of licensed
establishments time and effort by enabling them to renew and
view the status of their liquor licence online using the OneStop
e-service.
Today, we are pleased to announce two additional online services
as a result of this partnership!
Restaurant owners can now apply online for their food-primary
liquor licence. A food-primary licence for a restaurant
is where the service of food, as opposed to liquor, is the primary
focus of the business. Whether opening a new restaurant
or buying an existing one, application for the food-primary liquor
licence in both situations can be done online through OneStop.
Existing food-primary liquor licensees who are planning to sell
their business can also use OneStop to complete the agreement
to transfer their establishment to the new owner.
The Liquor Control and Licensing Branch plans further ground-breaking
initiatives in partnership with OneStop over the next several
years.
For more information about applying for a food-primary (restaurant)
licence, click
here, and for more information on the transfer of an establishment
to a new owner, please click
here.
If you have any questions about these new services, call:
- In Greater Victoria, 250 387-1254
- Elsewhere in B.C., 1 866 209-2111
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