RN Canada publishes guides on Canadian corporate tax, payroll, sales tax and accounting because business owners in Alberta and British Columbia deserve answers they can rely on. This page explains how those guides are researched, verified, reviewed and maintained — so you can judge the quality of the information for yourself before you act on it.
Primary-source verification
Tax content is only useful if the numbers are right. Every rate, threshold, filing deadline and credit figure we publish is verified against a primary government source before it goes live:
- Federal figures — the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and canada.ca.
- Alberta figures — Alberta.ca and Tax and Revenue Administration (TRA), including the AT1 corporate return rules.
- British Columbia figures — gov.bc.ca, covering provincial corporate tax, PST and the Employer Health Tax.
We do not restate numbers from secondary blogs, content aggregators or unattributed sources. When a figure could be read more than one way, we trace it back to the legislation or the government bulletin that sets it, rather than paraphrasing someone else's summary.
Year-stamping every figure
Tax rates and thresholds change, and a number that was correct last year can quietly become wrong. To protect against that, every tax figure we publish is stamped to the tax year it applies to. When you read that a Canadian-controlled private corporation pays roughly 11% combined on small-business income, the surrounding text makes clear which tax year that rate reflects. Year-stamping means a reader is never left guessing whether a figure is current, and it makes our quarterly review faster because outdated numbers are easy to spot.
Expert review
Accuracy is not only about sourcing — it is about interpretation. Our guides are reviewed by Ozgur Duymaz, who holds the CPA (Canada), ACCA (UK) and CMA (US) designations and is the founder and principal advisor at RN Canada. The reviewer's name, credentials and the article's last-updated date appear directly on each guide, so the review is transparent rather than a claim you have to take on trust. Where a topic touches on a specialist area, the review focuses on whether the guidance is not just technically correct but practically useful to a business owner.
Quarterly evergreen-refresh cadence
Our guides are designed to be evergreen — durable references rather than dated news. To keep them that way, we run a quarterly refresh cycle: each guide is re-checked against its primary sources at least once a quarter. On top of that scheduled cadence, we make out-of-cycle updates whenever a federal or provincial budget, a rate change or a legislative amendment affects a figure we have published. When a guide is refreshed, its visible last-updated date and the dateModified in its structured data are advanced together, so both readers and search engines see a consistent signal of freshness.
Correction policy
We aim to get things right the first time, but no editorial process is perfect. If we identify a material error — or a reader reports one — we correct it promptly and advance the article's last-updated date to reflect the change. We treat correction reports as a priority because a wrong tax figure can cost a business real money. If you believe something we have published is inaccurate or out of date, please tell us through our contact page; we would rather hear about it and fix it than leave it standing.
Important disclaimer
The content on RN Canada is general information about Canadian tax and accounting. It is not tax, legal or financial advice for your specific situation, and reading it does not create an advisor-client relationship. Tax outcomes depend on the full facts of a business — its structure, residency, associated companies, income mix and timing — and the right answer for one company can be the wrong answer for another. Before you act on anything you read here, please get advice tailored to your circumstances. You can reach our team through the contact page to discuss your situation directly.
Frequently asked questions
Every rate, threshold and deadline we publish is verified against a primary government source: the Canada Revenue Agency and canada.ca for federal figures, Alberta.ca and Tax and Revenue Administration for Alberta, and gov.bc.ca for British Columbia. We do not restate numbers from secondary blogs or aggregators. Each figure is stamped to the tax year it applies to so readers can see exactly which year a number reflects.
Articles are reviewed by Ozgur Duymaz, who holds the CPA (Canada), ACCA (UK) and CMA (US) designations and is the founder and principal advisor at RN Canada. The reviewer name and the last-updated date appear on each guide so the review is transparent and verifiable.
We run a quarterly evergreen-refresh cycle and an out-of-cycle update whenever a budget, rate change or legislative amendment affects a published figure. When a guide is refreshed, its last-updated date and the dateModified in its structured data are advanced together.
No. Our guides are general information about Canadian tax and accounting and do not constitute tax, legal or financial advice for your specific situation. For advice tailored to your circumstances, contact RN Canada directly through our contact page.
If we identify a material error, we correct it promptly and advance the article's last-updated date. Readers who spot an inaccuracy can reach us through the contact page, and we treat correction reports as a priority.