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How to sell a business in Ontario: the rules that are Ontario’s own
The stages of a sale are the same across Canada, and Ontario adds its own tax rules on the gain and on an asset sale. Two of its employment rules also reach the seller who stays on.
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How to sell a business that depends on you
A management team that already runs the business adds 0.4 to the multiple in our valuation. How buyers test how much rests on you, and a two year plan to hand it over.
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How to sell a dental practice in Canada, and what it is worth
Dental practices sell for 4.0 to 7.0 times adjusted earnings in Canada. The province decides who may own one, and your own chair time decides how much a buyer pays.
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How much you will get from selling your business: net proceeds, step by step
One illustration walked from adjusted earnings to the cash in an owner’s account, one deduction at a time, with the date each part of the money arrives.
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Purifying a company for the QSBC capital gains exemption
Surplus cash and investments inside a company can cost its owner the QSBC exemption. This is how the asset tests read a balance sheet, and how owners clear it in time for a sale.
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What the new US tariffs mean for selling your business
Trade talks broke down in August and new tariffs now apply on both sides of the border. What was announced, and how a buyer prices tariff exposure into an offer for your business.
