Do you have a great business idea but aren’t sure where to start? Check out these useful links.

Canada Business– Canadian government website with guides and links for business registration and planning assistance.

Service Canada – Services for Starting a Business – Canadian government website with guides and links for business registration and planning assistance.

City of Saskatoon Business Start-Up Guide is provided by the City of Saskatoon Community Services Department. The guide includes an informative Start-Up Checklist and a Business Contact Directory. The Start-Up Checklist is a convenient resource to help guide your business through the licensing and start-up process. The Business Contact Directory also provides a list of other agencies that can help you achieve your business goals.

BizPaL is an online service that simplifies the business permit, license and other compliance regulation process for entrepreneurs, governments, and third party business service providers. Easy and convenient, BizPaL provides Canadian businesses with one-stop access to permit and license information for all levels of government.

Information Services Corporation is the place to register your business in Saskatchewan.  The Corporate Registry Branch coordinates, promotes, develops, implements and enforces policies and programs that relate to the registration and regulation of business corporations, non-profit corporations, co-operatives and other businesses in Saskatchewan.

Need business planning and financing information?  Click here for further details

Business- Business Expansion

Looking to expand your current business?  SREDA can help.

SREDA provides services to assist existing businesses in the Saskatoon Region to remain viable, grow and expand.  It does this through actively developing and/or engaging in development initiatives, facilitating expansions by negotiating and administering tax incentives, assisting businesses to overcome business development challenges & promoting of the Saskatoon Region’s existing business base.

Business Expansion Services

While SREDA provides personalized business expansion services to its clients, common expansion services include:

• Provision of economic and business development information
• Connecting groups for site selection
• Facilitating business connections
• Negotiating tax incentives
• Working with entrepreneurs and governments to provide a competitive environment for existing business

Business Expansion Development Incentives

As part of its commitment to business attraction and business expansion, SREDA administers the City of Saskatoon’s Business Development Incentives Policy.  These tax abatement incentives were created to encourage attraction and expansion of businesses and facilitate long-term job creation.  Corporations meeting the eligibility requirements for a property tax incentive may qualify for a tax abatement of up to 100% of new or incremental taxes in year one, 80% in year two, 70% in year three, 60% in year four, and 50% in year five.

Other municipalities throughout the Saskatoon Region offer business development incentives to existing businesses that are continuing to invest in the Saskatoon Region.  Please click here for complete incentives information