Vancouver, BC · CPA and CPHR

Accounting, Tax, HR and Advisory in Vancouver. One Firm.

Built for British Columbia businesses of 1 to 50 people, and for the people who own them.

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Accounting & Tax

Books kept, filings made, returns prepared.

  • Bookkeeping, GST and PST
  • Payroll and T4s
  • Year-end and corporate tax
  • Personal tax returns
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HR

An HR department for hire, without hiring one.

  • Contracts and offer letters
  • Hiring and departures
  • Handbook and policies
  • BC employment rules
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Advisory

Fix how the business runs, or get it ready to sell.

  • Off paper, into systems
  • Where the time and money go
  • Where AI actually helps
  • Preparing for an exit
  • Planning a sudden windfall
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Accounting + HR

The whole back office, one monthly price.

  • Everything in accounting
  • Everything in HR
  • Owners' personal tax included
  • One firm, one invoice
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Accounting & Tax

Bookkeeping, payroll and tax for Vancouver and BC businesses. Books reconciled every month, filings made on time, and a year-end that doesn't turn into a fight — prepared and reviewed by a Chartered Professional Accountant.

Bookkeeping

  • Everything in and out, reconciled monthly
  • QuickBooks or Xero, set up properly
  • GST and PST returns filed
  • A report by the 10th you can actually read

Payroll

  • Payroll run on your schedule
  • CRA source deductions, EHT and WorkSafeBC
  • T4s and the T4 summary
  • Records of Employment when someone leaves

Tax

  • Year-end financial statements
  • Corporate tax return (T2)
  • Personal returns for owners and families
  • First and final Canadian returns for people moving

Books

For businesses with no payroll, or payroll handled elsewhere.

$950 / month
  • Monthly bookkeeping, reconciled
  • GST and PST returns filed
  • Plain-English report by the 10th
  • Year-end statements and your T2 included
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$11,400 a year. No surprise bill in month twelve.

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Books + Payroll

For businesses with up to 20 people on payroll.

$1,650 / month
  • Everything in Books
  • Payroll run for you, every cycle
  • CRA, EHT and WorkSafeBC remittances
  • T4s and Records of Employment
  • Personal tax returns for up to two owners
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$19,800 a year — about 20% below buying the parts separately.

Tax Returns, Priced Per Return

You don't need a monthly plan. Every return gets a fixed quote before we start, and the prices below are starting prices.

New to Canada, or Leaving It

The year you arrive and the year you leave are not ordinary tax years. You're resident for only part of the year, some credits shrink to the days you lived here, and pensions, savings and investments from home are often taxed differently in Canada than you'd expect.

Plenty of people arriving from the UK and Europe have never filed a tax return in their lives, and Australians are used to a very different system. We prepare the Canadian return and work alongside your adviser at home.

Arrival Year Standard
Canadian employment income from the day you arrive
from $699
Arrival Year Complex
Foreign assets, income, pensions, super or foreign tax credits
from $1,500
Departure Standard
Final pay, RRSP or TFSA, nothing unusual to report
from $999
Departure Complex
Investments treated as sold when you leave, plus the departure forms
from $2,500
Simple Personal Return
Employment income, RRSP contributions and the usual credits.
from $299per return
Spouse or Partner Return
Prepared alongside yours, so shared credits land on the right return.
+$225add-on
Investments or Capital Gains
Dividends, interest and investment sales, with the cost base worked out properly.
from $499per return
Rental Property
Rental income and expenses, including depreciation where it makes sense to claim it.
+$499per property
Self-Employed
Business income and expenses, home office, vehicle, and GST where it applies.
from $950per return
Business Owner's Personal Return
Salary, dividends and how they tie to the company return. Included for up to two owners on Books + Payroll.
from $500per return
Year-End Package With Corporate Tax Return
Year-end financial statements and your T2. Included at no extra charge in the monthly plans above.
from $2,700per year
Corporate Tax Return Only
When your own bookkeeper prepares the year-end numbers. We check them and prepare the T2.
from $1,800per year
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Send Your Documents

Slips, last year's return and anything unusual, through a secure upload. Never by plain email.

2

Approve a Fixed Price

We review everything first and confirm the price. Nothing starts until you say yes.

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Sign, and We File

You sign electronically, we file with the CRA, and you get the return and the filing confirmation.

One-Off Accounting Work, No Plan Required
Bookkeeping Catch-Up
Months or years brought current and reconciled, so your year-end isn't a fight. Priced per year of catch-up.
from $4,600per year
New Company Setup
Chart of accounts, bookkeeping, GST and PST, payroll accounts, and a first-year calendar of what's due when.
$1,6002 weeks
CRA Payroll Review or PIER Notice
A letter from the CRA means they think your deductions don't add up. We work out what happened, fix it, and deal with them for you.
$3,0003–4 weeks
Employer Health Tax Registration
We register you and file the years you missed, before it finds you.
$1,1002 weeks
WorkSafeBC Classification Check
Businesses are often placed in the wrong classification unit and overpay for years. We check it and deal with WorkSafeBC to put it right.
$1,9002–3 weeks

HR

Outsourced HR for BC employers — an HR department for hire. Contracts, hiring, handbooks, difficult conversations and the BC employment rules — run by a Chartered Professional in Human Resources.

Paperwork That Holds Up

  • Employment contracts and offer letters
  • Staff handbook written and kept current
  • Job descriptions and pay bands
  • Policy sign-offs on file, not in a drawer

Hiring and Leaving

  • A full hiring pack for each new person
  • First-day onboarding and enrolment
  • Departures planned, documented and done properly
  • Final pay and Records of Employment

Staying Onside

  • BC Employment Standards and WorkSafeBC
  • Contractor-versus-employee reviews
  • Pay transparency reporting
  • Someone to phone before you act, not after

HR Essentials

For businesses of roughly 1 to 15 people who hire a few times a year.

$1,200 / month
  • Contracts and offer letters as you need them
  • Staff handbook written and kept current
  • Employment-standards questions answered any time
  • Hiring packs for up to 4 new staff a year
  • An annual review of where you stand
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$14,400 a year — less than a month of an HR manager's salary.

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HR Department

For businesses that keep hiring, and keep worrying about the rules.

$2,400 / month
  • Everything in HR Essentials
  • 5 hours a month with your own HR advisor
  • Hiring packs for up to 8 new staff a year
  • Help with up to 2 departures a year
  • Annual contractor-classification review
  • WorkSafeBC and pay-transparency support
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$28,800 a year. A full-time HR generalist in this market costs well over twice that.

HR plans stand on their own. You don't need to move your books to us to buy them, and we're happy to work alongside your accountant or payroll provider.
One-Off HR Work, No Plan Required
New Hire Pack
Offer letter, employment contract, payroll setup, WorkSafeBC, benefits enrolment, first-day pack and policy sign-offs — done properly, so it holds up later.
$550per hire
Departure Support
Final pay calculated correctly, Record of Employment filed, the conversation planned, everything documented. If it needs a lawyer we say so and introduce you to one.
$1,600per departure
Urgent Record of Employment
Final pay worked out and the ROE filed within two business days.
$95048 hours
Staff Handbook
Written for your business and for BC law: hours, breaks, overtime, sick days, holidays, conduct, privacy, phones and social media. Written so your staff will actually read it.
from $4,2003–4 weeks
Contractor Classification Review
If the CRA decides a contractor was an employee, you owe back source deductions, interest and penalties, often for years. We review the agreements and the real working relationship.
from $3,6002–3 weeks
First Employee Setup
Everything a first-time BC employer needs, set up once and set up right: payroll accounts, WorkSafeBC, Employer Health Tax, the contract and the minimum policies.
$2,2002–3 weeks
Employer Compliance Check
We check your business against twelve things the CRA, WorkSafeBC and BC Employment Standards expect of an employer, and hand you a ranked list of what to fix.
$2,5002 weeks
Job Descriptions and Pay Bands
Written descriptions and pay bands for your roles, so raises stop being a negotiation and start being a policy.
$3,000per 10 roles
Pay Transparency Report
BC employers with 50 or more employees must publish a pay transparency report by 1 November each year. We prepare yours and check the numbers.
$2,9003 weeks

Advisory

For businesses running on paper, spreadsheets and one person's memory — and for owners who want to sell one day and don't know what the business is worth without them.

Get Off Paper

  • Cloud systems chosen and set up
  • Receipts captured, bills approved without printing
  • Your team trained on it
  • Written procedures that survive someone leaving

Find Where the Money Goes

  • How work actually moves, not how the manual says
  • Where rework and waiting happen
  • Ranked fixes, each with a dollar value
  • What to do first, and what to leave alone

Plan the Way Out

  • What a buyer would pay, and why not more
  • What makes the business depend on you
  • A two-year list of fixes, in order
  • Quarterly reviews while you work through it
Sellability Report
What the business is worth today, why it isn't worth more, and what to fix first. The things buyers quietly take off the offer, priced.
$15,0004–6 weeks
Quarterly Exit Review
Half a day every three months while you do the work, so the plan doesn't die in a drawer.
$3,500per quarter
Back-Office Digitisation
Paper and spreadsheets to a cloud system that works: bookkeeping, receipt capture, bill approvals, document storage and written procedures. Free when you start on a monthly plan.
from $6,5003–4 weeks
Operations and Efficiency Review
We spend time in the business, map how work really moves, and quantify what the gaps cost. A ranked fix list with a dollar value and a payback period against each item.
from $11,0004–6 weeks
AI Opportunity Assessment
Five to ten specific uses ranked by payback, the tools and what they cost, and the privacy guardrails you need before any of it touches real data. Honest about where it won't help.
from $8,5003–4 weeks
Systems Selection and Rollout
Accounting, payroll, HR or job-costing software. We run the selection, negotiate, manage the implementation and make sure it gets used — the part that usually fails.
from $13,5006–10 weeks
Buying or Selling Part of a Business
The people and finance side of an acquisition, a merger or a wind-down: contract transitions, payroll and benefits migration, what transfers and what doesn't.
$18,0008–12 weeks
Interim Project Office
A part-time project office for a business already mid-change: milestones, budget tracking, status reporting and someone whose job is unblocking things. Capped hours.
$4,200per month
Not sure which of these you need? A five-minute call is all it takes. We'll ask what's going on, tell you which piece of work fits, and say so if the answer is none of them.

Sudden Wealth & Wealth Transition Planning

You've just received more money than you've ever had. Now what? Fixed-fee planning for inheritances, property sales, settlements and business exits.

We're paid one fixed fee, agreed before we start. We accept no commissions, no percentage of your assets, and no compensation from anyone we refer you to. When we recommend something, that's the only reason we're recommending it.

Who This Is For

An Inheritance or Estate

  • Usually a house, and often more than one sibling
  • An executor who didn't ask for the job
  • A tax return for the person who died, and one for the estate

A Property or Business Sale

  • Property held for decades, sold in one year
  • Proceeds from selling the business you built
  • The retirement question underneath it: can I stop now?

A Settlement, Severance or Split

  • Personal injury or insurance settlements
  • Severance, or a commuted pension value with a deadline
  • Family property division and a new single income
  • A lottery or gambling win, which arrives tax-free and unplanned

What You Get: The Wealth Transition Blueprint

The Tax Map

  • What's taxable and what isn't, in which year
  • The marginal rate that actually applies
  • Instalment obligations and filing deadlines the event creates

The Number and the Model

  • Real monthly spending, from twelve months of statements
  • Year-by-year projection to age 95
  • CPP and OAS timing, the clawback threshold, drawdown order
  • Three scenarios: base, a weak decade, and one you choose

The Structure and the Estate

  • Personal, holding company, trust, or a mix
  • Probate exposure quantified in dollars
  • Tax on death as it stands today, and where it can be reduced
  • What your will needs to say, handed to your lawyer as a spec

What We Don't Do

We don't sell products, we don't manage your money, and we never hold it. We won't tell you which fund to buy or name a withdrawal rate on a portfolio — that takes a licence we don't hold, and anyone who does it for free is being paid somewhere else. We'll tell you what the money has to do, then introduce you to fee-only portfolio managers and estate lawyers and take nothing for the introduction.

Triage Call

For someone who received the money last week and needs to not make a mistake this week.

$750 / 90 minutes
  • One call, with a written one-page summary
  • An immediate do-and-don't list
  • The deadlines you're already on the clock for
  • Fee credited in full against a Blueprint
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Wealth Transition Blueprint

The full picture: tax, spending, structure, estate and a dated plan.

from $4,500 / fixed fee
  • All six parts above
  • Two working sessions with you
  • A referral roster of lawyers and portfolio managers
  • A follow-up at 90 days
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Three to four weeks, priced before we start.

Estate Architecture

Business owners, blended families, a beneficiary with a disability, anything with a company in it.

from $9,500 / fixed fee
  • Everything in the Blueprint
  • Estate freeze and trust modelling
  • Post-mortem tax planning
  • Co-ordination with your lawyer
  • Family meeting facilitated
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Six to ten weeks, priced before we start.

Stewardship

For keeping the plan alive once the money is placed.

from $400 / month
  • Annual re-model against what actually happened
  • Personal and trust tax returns
  • Short questions answered without a meter running
  • Executor support on call
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Twelve-month term.

Structured Settlement Analysis
When a personal injury claim settles, you choose between a lump sum and periodic payments. Properly structured periodic payments are generally received tax-free, including the growth; a lump sum invested personally isn't. We put both side by side in after-tax dollars. Often paid by the law firm or from settlement funds.
from $1,5005–10 days
Executor Support Package
The final personal return, the estate return, the clearance certificate, the distribution schedule, and a plain-language walkthrough of what you're responsible for. Executors are personally liable and rarely told so.
from $2,500varies

Accounting + HR

The most expensive mistakes we see happen in the gap between the two: a contractor nobody classified, a termination priced wrong, a payroll change nobody told the bookkeeper about. One firm, and the gap closes.

Best Value

Complete Back Office

Books, payroll, tax and HR for a business with up to 20 on payroll.

$3,450 / month
  • Everything in Books + Payroll
  • Everything in HR Department
  • Year-end statements and your T2
  • Personal tax returns for up to two owners
  • One firm, one invoice, one person to call
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The same two plans bought separately come to $4,050 a month — this saves $7,200 a year.

Build Your Own

If the complete plan is more than you need.

Enquire for pricing
  • Any mix of bookkeeping, payroll, tax and HR
  • Priced on what you actually need
  • Works alongside the people you already use
  • Tax returns and one-off work priced per job
  • Advisory projects when you want them, not before
Enquire for Pricing

Tell us what you have in place already and we'll price only the gaps.

Clinics

Dental, medical, veterinary and physio. Associates on contract are the biggest classification risk we see.

Trades and Construction

WorkSafeBC classification, subcontractor status, and job costing that tells you which jobs made money.

Restaurants and Hospitality

High turnover means constant onboarding and ROEs. Tips, scheduling and statutory holiday pay done right.

Transport and Logistics

Owner-operators, driver classification and per-diem treatment — three things audited more than most.

Non-Profits and Societies

Board reporting, grant tracking and the year-end package your funders expect.

Professional Firms

Small law, engineering, design and consulting practices. Work in progress, partner draws, and now PST.

We'd Rather Tell You Now Than in Month Three

We're a Good Fit If…

  • You're a BC business of roughly 1 to 50 people.
  • You use contractors and aren't certain they'd survive a CRA look.
  • Your books and your staff paperwork live with different people — or with you, late at night.
  • You want one fixed monthly number instead of a bill that moves.
  • You'd rather hear about a problem early than meet it in an audit.

We're the Wrong People If…

  • You need an audit or a review engagement. We don't do those — we'll refer you.
  • You want tax planning, restructuring or an estate freeze. That's a specialist's job.
  • You need a US return or one in your home country. We prepare Canadian returns only.
  • You want legal advice on a dispute. We aren't lawyers and we'll say so.
  • You're shopping purely on price. There are $350-a-month bookkeepers in this province and they aren't lying about what they do.

Who We Are

A 100% Canadian owned and operated firm based in Vancouver, BC, led by a Chartered Professional Accountant and a Chartered Professional in Human Resources, drawing on a network of lawyers, portfolio managers and specialists when a file calls for one.

Amandeep Bamrah, CPA
Amandeep Bamrah, CPA
Accounting, tax and advisory

Runs the money side: bookkeeping, GST and PST, year-end financial statements, and corporate and personal tax. Trained in audit at Deloitte and Grant Thornton, then spent four years inside large organisations — project finance on multi-year defence contracts, financial systems and ERP transformation, and risk management on major transportation infrastructure. If the CRA writes to you, this is the person who writes back.

DeloitteGrant ThorntonERP and financial systemsProject financeRisk management
Prabjot (Prab) Bamrah, CPHR, PMP
Prabjot (Prab) Bamrah, CPHR, PMP
HR, people and advisory

Runs the people side: contracts, handbooks, hiring, departures and the BC employment rules. Leads HR programmes for a 2,800-person, 44-location automotive group across BC and Ontario, where she built the department's first project governance framework and ran the HR workstream on a merger covering roughly 500 employee contract transitions across two provinces, plus two divestitures and an operational wind-down. Began in assurance at BDO and EY.

BDOEYMerger integrationLabour relationsWorkplace investigations

Straight Answers

Can we buy HR without moving our accounting to you?

Yes, and plenty of clients do. The HR plans are complete on their own and we'll work alongside your accountant or payroll provider. The same is true in reverse — take the books and keep your HR wherever it sits today.

We're five people. Aren't we too small for an HR plan?

Small businesses are where employment mistakes cost the most, because nobody in the building has catching them as their job. HR Essentials exists for exactly this size. If a monthly plan is more than you need, buy the one-off work instead — a contract, a handbook, a departure handled properly.

Can't software do all this now?

Software does the typing, and we use good software — it's why these prices work. It doesn't decide whether your contractor is really an employee, notice that your WorkSafeBC classification is wrong, or sit with you when you have to let someone go. You're paying for the judgement.

Why pay you when tax software is free?

For a genuinely simple return, free software does the job, and we'll tell you if that's you. You're paying for the returns software can't think through: the year you moved to Canada or left it, a rental, a business, or income from more than one country.

I've just moved to Canada. Do I need to file?

In most cases, yes. If you became resident partway through the year you report your income from the day you arrived. Filing is also how benefits such as the GST/HST credit start, and how your RRSP room begins to build. We'll confirm what applies to you on the first call.

Can you do my UK, Australian or US return too?

No. We prepare the Canadian return only. We'll give your adviser at home what they need from our side, and point you to one if you don't have one.

Do you replace our accountant?

Usually yes on Books or above — your year-end statements and corporate tax return are included. If you'd rather keep your accountant, we hand them a clean year-end package and take that portion out of your monthly price.

What happens if you get something wrong?

We carry professional liability insurance, and we tell you the moment we find a mistake, including our own. If a filing is late because of us, we pay the penalty and the interest and we don't invoice for the fix.

Is our information safe?

Your files stay in Canada. Two-factor sign-in on every system, no personal information sent by plain email, and a confidentiality agreement signed before we see anything.

All It Takes Is a 5-Minute Call

Tell us a little about what you need and we'll arrange a quick five-minute call. No cost, no obligation.

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WhereVancouver, BC

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