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Register a Business Under Your Corporation
(Master Business Licence)

Registration a Business Under Your Corporation (Master Business Licence)

A small business in Ontario may also register under their corporation as a trade name. This is specific to a business being carried out under an existing Ontario corporation. An example would be (ABC Inc. cob as Lulu's Restaurant).

The information required in registering a trade name registration is as follows:

  • The business name
  • Business address
  • Principal place of business in Ontario
  • Activity carried on by the business
  • Corporation name
  • Ontario corporation number
  • Jurisdiction in which the corporation was incorporated
  • Office address of corporation
  • Name of person authorizing the registration

Completion of Registration

The next step to complete the Trade Name Registration (form 2). To begin the registration of your new business under your corporation you will be prompted to provide the following information:

  • Do you require an Ontario Business Name Search?
  • Do you require a Nuans Search?
  • Is this a 'New registration, Renewal, Amendment or Cancellation?
  • Provide business name/s in order of perference. Business address
  • Address of principal place of business in Ontario or same as above
  • Activity of business
  • Corporation name
  • Ontario corporation number
  • Jurisdiction in which the corporation was incorporated
  • Address of head office or registered office of corporation
  • Name of person authorizing registration

NUANS (new updated automated name search)
This databank contains records throughout most of Canada. It displays corporations and business registrations with the same or similar name to the one proposed. This search is much more effective in determining name availability. A preliminary search is done initially to check for availability before the expense of ordering the actually search printout.

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