Frequently asked questions

The $106 annual fee stays due and the Registraire adds a 50% penalty, $53. One missed year therefore comes to $159.

At 2 missing declarations, the Registraire may strike the corporation off.

109,909 corporations sit on the register in default.

Two. The Registraire may strike off a corporation that has not filed its annual updating declarations for two consecutive years.

68,587 corporations carry at least two in the register data as of August 1, 2026.

The striking-off does not land the day the threshold is reached: it becomes possible, and your report shows from which date.

Yes. Revocation of the striking-off is requested from the Registraire together with the missing declarations. The fee for the request is $134.

696,897 corporations sit on the register as struck off.

That is the work covered by the Catch-up service, from $499.

For most corporations the annual updating declaration is filed together with the Quebec income tax return: it goes in with form CO-17 to Revenu Québec, which passes it on to the Registraire.

A corporation that files no CO-17 files its declaration directly with the Registraire.

The deadline recorded on your file is shown on your report. That is the one that counts.

If it is registered in Quebec, yes. It files the Quebec declaration on top of its federal annual return to Corporations Canada, which makes two filings a year, one with each register.

303,907 federal-regime corporations are registered on the Quebec register.

The report flags this double obligation on federal-regime files.

A corporation constituted elsewhere that begins activity in Quebec files its initial declaration within 60 days of starting that activity.

After that deadline the file sits in default on the register and the fees run.

Yes. Any name the corporation does business under in Quebec, other than its registered legal name, is declared on the register as an assumed name.

A name that is not declared is attached to you nowhere on the register: another business can declare it before you do.

Since March 31, 2023, most registered corporations declare their ultimate beneficiaries, meaning the people who hold or control the corporation.

That information is not part of the open dataset we copy. The report therefore marks this check “to be confirmed” instead of guessing.

The penalty is 50% of the annual fee due, $53 for each year filed late. The total grows because another year is added at each cycle: two missed years cost $159 each.

The report itemises up to three years, most recent first, and adds up only the lines it shows.

From the open data published by the Registraire des entreprises du Québec. Our copy holds 1,498,539 records, current to August 1, 2026, and is rebuilt twice a month.

The report therefore describes the register as of that date. A filing made yesterday may not show yet.

The check is free. Ongoing compliance costs $99 a month or $990 a year for one corporation. Bringing a late file back in good standing starts at $499.

Registraire fees come on top and are paid to the Registraire: $106 a year for a corporation.

No online payment for now: every file starts with a call.

No. MonNEQ is a private corporate compliance service, not affiliated with the Registraire des entreprises du Québec or with the Government of Quebec.

We file declarations for our clients under a representation mandate, the way an accounting firm would. MonNEQ does not provide legal advice.