Starting a Business

The following is designed to help you locate more information for starting your own business in the Trenval Region.

The Start-up Checklist is followed by other internet sites that will be beneficial to your research in developing your business plan. Don’t forget to browse the Canada Business Ontario and our Resource Library.

Be sure to also check out the Business Plan outline.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call our office and our staff will be pleased to assist you in your research.

For your convenience, listed below are telephone numbers for area municipal offices:

• City of Quinte West  613-392-2841

• City of Belleville  613-968-6481

• Township of Tyendinaga  613-396-1944

• Municipality of Stirling – Rawdon  613-395-3380

• Town of Deseronto  613-396-2440

Business Start-Up Checklist

You may find it useful to print the following pages.

Call or visit your Municipal, or Township office to find out the following:

• Zoning – Present zoning and future zoning? If it must be re-zoned, what time span is involved and at what cost?

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• Building – Outside and inside appearance? Layout, lighting, heating, floors, acoustics, comfort, waste disposal, parking, landscape, snow removal?

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• Parking – Are there any restrictions?

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• Signage – Can you have a sign? What Size? Where?

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• Permits – Do you need a permit,license or a registration?

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• Taxes – Present and future assessment for property taxes and business taxes?

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• Home Based Business – Is it permitted? What are the by-laws?

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Ministry of Government Services – Companies Branch 393 University Ave., Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M2 1-800-361-3223 416-314-8880
Web Site: http://www.mgs.gov.on.ca/

• Service Ontario:
Century Place Mall, 199 Front St. 1st Floor, Suite 109 
Belleville, ON 
613-968-3769

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• Vendor’s Permit:
Retail Sales Tax Office
Register by Phone – Whitby 1-800-668-5810, 
Ministry of Finance
Toll Free 1-800-668-5810,
590 Roslin Rd. E. 2nd Floor
Facsimile 905-435-4315 
Whitby, Ontario L1N 9H5

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• Incorporate a Business:
Companies Branch 
Ministry of Consumer and 
Commercial Relations
416-314-0096 or
1-800-361-3223

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• Employee Deductions – C.P.P., U.I.C., Tax
Register with Revenue Canada
11 Station Street, 
Belleville, Ontario 
K8N 2S3   
1-800-959-8281

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• Worker’s Safety and Insurance Board
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See if your business requires registration?
 Kingston, ON  
1-800-267-9461
  Fax 613-544-1510

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• G.S.T. (if applicable) register with Revenue Canada, General Inquiries 1-800-959-5525

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• Ontario Employer Health Tax Office:  
1-800-461-4909

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• Have you complied with any/all legal requirements affecting your particular type of business? see below

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• Health Regulations: 
(Department of Health) 
Local Health Unit 613-394-4831

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• Licensing Requirements: 
Contact your local municipal office.

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• Packaging and Labelling: 
1-800-348-5358

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• Transportation Regulations:  
1-800-268-4686

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• Labour Laws:  
1-800-531-5551

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• Liquor Licenses:  
416-326-0450

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• Obtain a copy of 
”A Guide to the Employment Standards Act”  
1-800-668-9938

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• Franchises – for more information contact:
Consumer Information Centre 
 1-800-268-1142
Canadian Franchise Association
  905-625-2896

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• Contact an insurance agent about required coverage for your business.

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• Have a lawyer review all lease and purchase agreements before you sign them.

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• Develop a good relationship with your banker and your lawyer.

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• Obtain the services of a qualified accountant to develop workable systems of records management for all areas of the business. Accounting, Payroll, Taxation, Credit, Payables.

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• Do you require any protection against your unique invention? Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Design, and Copyrights, Canadian Patent Office 1-900-565-2476
Canadian Industrial Innovation Centre 1-800-265-4559