Why choose Beacon Law Centre as your company’s registered and records office

As a business owner, your time and expertise are valuable assets that are best utilized in areas where you can generate the most value. However, the administrative burden of maintaining corporate records and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements can be overwhelming and detract from your core focus. That’s where Beacon Law comes in. Here’s why entrusting Beacon Law with your company’s Registered and Records Office responsibilities can benefit you:

• Streamline Your Business: Why choose Beacon Law to act as your company’s Registered and Records (R&R) office:

• Inspection readiness: Your corporate records must be available for inspection for at least two hours every business day to the public. If your company’s R&R office is your home, anyone wishing to view your shareholder list would have the right to enter your home.

• Personal Privacy: if your house is the R&R office, your home address is disclosed to the public on a company search.

• Expertise on Record Inspection: Beacon Law has the expertise on restricting and monitoring record access to third parties. Our team ensures that the appropriate information remains confidential and secure.

• Automated Filing of Annual Reports: Eliminate compliance worries by having Beacon Law file your annual reports. Save time and reduce administration burdens while staying compliant.

• Notification of Court Notices: Beacon Law provides a reliable address for receiving important legal correspondence.

• Hub for Notices: The R&R office is a place for directors to send their notices of resignation.

• Secured and Safe Record Keeping: Keeping your records at Beacon Law reduces the risk of accidentally losing or destroying your records.

• Ongoing Record organization: Benefit from Beacon Law’s commitment to keeping your records organized. Well-maintained records will enhance the attractiveness of your company to a potential buyer.

• Document Date Stamping: We date-stamp all notices which are delivered to the R&R office. This becomes important for limitation dates and limiting liabilities.

• Address Compliance: If you operate a BC corporation, the R&R office must be located in British Columbia. This may be important if you do not normally reside in BC.

Leave a gift to charity in your will?

Often the people we meet have a cause they are passionate about. They make the world a better place, through monthly donations or as volunteers. But what is the best way to make a difference when you are gone? If you are one of those people, the logical next step may be to leave a gift to charity in your will.

You may be surprised to learn how big a contribution to shaping the future is possible, with a gift in your will of only 1% of the estate. You are still leaving 99% to support your loved ones. In this way, you are doing more to help than you ever thought possible, simply by giving in a different way.

Here are a few tools you can use to get started with thinking about leaving a gift in your will: *

• Estimate your gift. Consider how much you want to give, using this Legacy Calculator tool.

• Get inspired. Consider what purpose you want to support, using your will to do good and make a lasting difference in the world. Need some ideas? Take a look at some donor stories.

• Keep the love going. Find out what specifically your gift could accomplish at your chosen charity. Perhaps you could help preserve a natural area, research a cure, start a scholarship, or create an arts endowment. This Charity Finder tool allows you to search by cause and location, and explore ideas.

*tools provided by Will Power, a Canadian public education campaign about charitable giving.

The combination of estate planning and philanthropy is also gaining popularity in Canada as more people discover that Canada has some of the best tax incentives in the world to support giving to charity.

If even a small percentage of us Canadians left 1% their estate to charity, the result could be as much as $40 billion per year to advance the causes that we care about.

Who would have thought that a gift of 1% in a will could be a powerful tool to make change in the world? But we know that if many people each do a little, it adds up fast. “Many hands make light work!”

If you are looking for someone to talk to about charitable giving, or estate planning generally, please contact us for a free initial consultation. We can help you support your loved ones and your passion, both.

Beacon Law Centre Funds Special Project for Community in the Congo

Beacon Law Centre’s staff have sponsored a child in the small village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through World Vision Canada for the past 13 years. The team is always delighted to receive photos and correspondence from our sponsor, Emely, and are proud to be able to make a difference in her future. This past year, we found out that one of the challenges for Emely’s family is their access to clean water. Our immediate reaction to hearing this news was, what can we do to help! After corresponding and planning with World Vision Canada, we are thrilled to announce that Beacon Law Centre has funded a special project to supply Emely’s family and community with a reliable water source. Over the next few months we will be receiving progress reports on the project from World Vision Canada.

Check out our article this month in Boulevard Magazine’s “The Influencers” feature