TAX & INCENTIVES·Part of the fractional CFO scope

Tax coordination and incentives

Tax is something that happens after the year ends, which means every planning opportunity has already expired by the time anyone looks. The accountant is handed a trial balance in month four and asked to do their best.

How we run it
01 / 05

In the order we do it.

Incentives that the business qualified for — R&D credits, SR&ED, grants — are missed because nobody was tracking the qualifying activity while it was happening, and reconstructing it afterwards is expensive and unconvincing.

01TAX AT THE FRONT OF THE YEARAt the start

Tax moves to the front of the year rather than the end of it. Position understood quarterly, provision modeled with the assumptions written down, and the effective rate explained before it appears in the accounts.

02CAPTURING INCENTIVESWeekly

On incentives, the qualifying work is captured as it happens — project records, time, technical narrative — so the claim file is built through the year and hands to your preparer complete. That is the difference between a claim that is filed and one that is defended.

03STRUCTUREMonthly

Structure is reviewed whenever entities, states or provinces change, because the cost of getting that wrong compounds quietly.

What changes
02 / 05

What you can do afterwards that you cannot do now.

01

Know your tax position before the year ends, while something can still be done about it.

02

Claim what you are entitled to, with the evidence already assembled.

Who holds the seat
03 / 05

Your CFO does not do this alone.

WHO YOUR CFO DRAWS ON
Tax specialists working alongside your own preparer
Brought in for this, at no change to the fee.

With a named controller alongside them, a named backup on every seat, and the specialist bench behind both — all inside one fixed monthly fee.

Who arrives with this
04 / 05

The situations that route here.

“We operate on both sides of the border and nobody owns the tax position”
“We think we are leaving credits and incentives on the table”
What happens next

Tell us what your month looks like. We will tell you whether this is the first thing to fix.

One hour on your business, with the CFO who would hold the seat rather than a salesperson. Nothing to prepare and nothing to sign. A written note back within two working days saying what we heard and what we would look at first.

THE HOURWhat the business does, how the cash moves through it, and what would have to be different in a year.
THE NOTEWhat we heard and what we would look at first, in writing, within two working days.
THE PODThe CFO and controller who would hold your seats, each with a named backup behind them.
THE STANDARDClose by the seventh working day, pack on the eighth, and a published response standard in between.
ONE HOUR · NO CHARGE · A WRITTEN NOTE BACK WITHIN TWO WORKING DAYS