Bookkeeping for businesses in Montreal
Montreal is home to one of North America's largest aerospace clusters, a video-game and visual-effects industry that draws studios from around the world, and a fast-growing artificial-intelligence research scene tied to the city's universities. A bilingual workforce and lower operating costs than Toronto or Vancouver keep drawing technology and creative companies to the city. An aerospace supplier here reconciles parts invoices priced in US dollars, a games studio tracks contractor and freelancer payments against project milestones, and a marketing agency bills retainers in French for local clients and in English for international ones. Montreal businesses need bookkeeping that handles bilingual invoicing alongside Quebec's distinct GST and QST filing.
Eastern Time (ET). Our team works 8am to 8pm ET, which lines up hour for hour with Montreal's business day.
Montreal tax and compliance notes
GST plus QST at 9.975 percent
Montreal businesses charge the 5 percent federal GST alongside the 9.975 percent Quebec Sales Tax, and Revenu Quebec administers both for most QST-registered businesses rather than splitting the filing between two agencies. Export sales to the rest of Canada or abroad follow their own separate zero-rating rules.
Bilingual invoicing under Bill 96
Bill 96 requires customer-facing documents, including invoices, to be available in French for Quebec customers, which matters for a city with both francophone and international clients. Bookkeeping software can usually run bilingual invoice templates without changing the underlying ledger.
Payroll, the Releve 1 and the CNESST
Montreal employers issue both a federal T4 and a provincial Releve 1 for each employee, due by the last day of February, alongside CRA payroll remittances set by the employer's remitter type. Most employers also register with the CNESST for workplace safety coverage; we prepare these workpapers, and your CPA or an EFILE-registered preparer files the returns.
General notes, not advice. Filing is done by you, your CPA, accountant or registered agent; we prepare the workings.
Industries we serve in Montreal
- ManufacturingMontreal's aerospace cluster needs parts invoices and supplier costs reconciled in both Canadian and US dollars.
- SaaSA fast-growing artificial-intelligence and software scene needs subscription and project revenue matched cleanly against billing platforms.
- AgenciesBilingual marketing and creative agencies need retainers tracked separately for French-speaking and international clients.
- RestaurantsMontreal's dense restaurant scene needs daily till reconciliation across a busy tourist and festival calendar.
- RetailA bilingual retail sector needs point-of-sale reconciliation alongside French-language invoicing and combined GST-QST tracking.
Software Montreal businesses use
Services for Montreal businesses
Frequently asked questions
Do you have an office in Montreal?
No, LedgerBPO does not have a local office in Montreal. We are the accounting and billing division of SS Support Network LLC, registered in Vancouver, Washington, with a second office in Pakistan that covers Montreal business hours. Your dedicated accountant works remotely inside your own software, so there is no branch in the city to visit.
How do you handle GST and QST for a Montreal business?
We reconcile sales and purchases inside your software each period and build the combined GST and QST workings, tying input tax credits back to supplier invoices. From there, your CPA or another CRA-registered EFILE transmitter takes those workings and files with Revenu Quebec, since we do not hold that registration ourselves. Keeping preparation separate from filing avoids any confusion about who is responsible for what.
Can you invoice our Montreal clients in French?
We can set up bilingual invoice templates inside your software so French-language invoices go to Quebec clients and English ones go elsewhere, working from wording you or your accountant approve. The bookkeeping ledger behind those invoices stays consistent regardless of the invoice language.
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