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Small chartered professional accounting practice in a No. 3 Road tower near Richmond Centre. Handles corporate year-ends, personal and business tax returns, bookkeeping and CRA correspondence for local small businesses and self-employed clients.
Corporate year-ends and personal returns are the bulk of the work here, along with bookkeeping and the CRA correspondence nobody enjoys. HAP CPA is a small chartered professional accounting practice in a No. 3 Road tower near Richmond Centre, serving local small businesses and the self-employed.
Richmond runs on small business to an unusual degree. The restaurant strips, the import and logistics operations around the airport, the trades, the one-person consultancies working out of City Centre condos: a very large share of the working population here is incorporated, self-employed, or both. That creates steady demand for exactly this kind of practice. It also creates a familiar April pattern, in which an owner discovers in the spring what should have been sorted out the previous September.
The lesson most owners eventually take from that is to find someone who handles the bookkeeping year-round rather than someone you meet once a year with a shoebox. If you are shopping for an accountant, ask about turnaround during busy season, ask who will actually be handling your file rather than signing it, and ask whether GST and payroll filings are covered as well as the year-end. The location helps in a way professional services in Richmond often do not, sitting close enough to Brighouse station that an in-person meeting need not consume an afternoon. Firms of this size fill their calendars from February onwards, so start the conversation early.
In the Brighouse neighbourhood of Richmond.
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