Legal and financial,
coordinated under one roof.
Bookkeeping, tax, payroll, and CRA filings — coordinated with your legal matter so the corporate, real estate, or governance work is tax-aligned from the start.
Legal and accounting, delivered together.
Accounting and tax services for VanWest Law clients are delivered through our exclusive partner, VertAcc Solutions Inc. VertAcc is a modern accounting and advisory firm built around an AI-native platform, with deep expertise in bookkeeping, corporate and personal tax, payroll, and CRA-compliant filings. The two firms work in lockstep so each client receives one coordinated answer, not two parallel ones.
Payroll · CRA Filings
The practice, in brief.
Many legal matters have a financial dimension. Incorporations create new tax obligations. Real-estate closings change ownership structures. Reorganizations have to be tax-aligned to actually work. Estate and succession matters often have tax planning at their core.
VanWest Law's accounting and tax work is delivered through our exclusive partner, VertAcc Solutions Inc. When a file involves financial as well as legal matters, we instruct VertAcc to handle the financial side in step with our legal work. Where a client already has an established accountant, we are equally happy to coordinate directly with that professional.
The work, in detail.
Bookkeeping
Categorized transactions, monthly close, bank reconciliations, and financial statements prepared in a form that supports legal and corporate diligence.
Corporate tax
T2 corporate returns, schedules, deductions, GIFI mapping, and year-end tax planning — aligned with the corporate structure we set up on the legal side.
Personal tax
T1 returns for owners, partners, and individual clients, including capital gains, rental income, and the schedules that apply when income is more than a single T4.
Payroll
Source deductions, ROEs, T4s, T4As, and the routine CRA filings that keep employers in good standing.
GST/HST & sales tax
Registration, periodic returns, ITC tracking, and audit response — particularly relevant for real-estate transactions and cross-jurisdictional sales.
CRA representation
Authorized representation for CRA inquiries, audits, and appeals on the financial side, with legal counsel coordinated where required.
The right fit.
The firm accepts engagements where it can deliver the highest standard of work. Matters outside this scope are referred or supported through trusted external counsel.
- Clients with a corporate matter that has meaningful tax or bookkeeping implications.
- Owner-operators who prefer to keep legal and accounting coordinated rather than fragmented.
- Real-estate clients with rental properties, holdco structures, or capital-gains considerations.
- Estate and succession clients where tax planning is a significant part of the matter.
- Clients seeking a single point of coordination across legal and financial counsel.
From first call to final invoice.
Joint intake
Where a matter has accounting implications, the file opens jointly. A single intake captures both the legal and financial scope.
Coordinated plan
VanWest Law sets the legal strategy. Our accounting counsel models the tax and bookkeeping impact. The result is one integrated plan, in writing.
Parallel execution
Legal documents and financial setup proceed in parallel — corporate structures, payroll, tax registration, CRA filings — so neither side waits on the other.
Ongoing coordination
Year-end, quarter-end, and ad-hoc matters are handled jointly. Clients are not asked to brief both sides separately.
What pairs well with this work.
Matters rarely sit in a single category. Files that cross practice areas are either handled directly by the firm or coordinated with trusted external counsel so nothing is missed.
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