Togra for Canadian producers
A walkthrough of how Togra runs a Canadian production company: certification and tax credits, funder applications and rounds, recoupment, company admin and co-production with Ireland.
What a Canadian company gets
A company that chooses Canada as its home, with its province, works in Canadian terms from the start: CAD, the CRA and Corporations Canada, GST/HST, provincial employment standards and child-performer rules, PIPEDA (Law 25 in Québec), and its province's time zone. Irish and UK statutory pages stay out of its menus unless a project touches those countries.
- Federal CPTC and PSTC, and the credits of all thirteen provinces and territories.
- Telefilm, the Canada Media Fund, SODEC, the private funds and the provincial agencies.
- ACTRA, DGC and WGC residual terms, SOCAN for music.
- French for Québec productions: crew onboarding and the CAVCO screens in French, and the SODEC bundles in French.
The producer's journey
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A Canadian company
The company profile asks for what a Canadian company has: a corporation number, a CRA business number with the RT program account for GST/HST, a Canadian bank, and the home province, which sets the provincial rules and time zone throughout.
Company profile. Scroll inside the frame. -
The Canadian application stack
Funder applications open on a Canada tab: the CAVCO tracker and Part A bundle, Telefilm's Production Program and its preliminary and final co-production recommendation bundles, the Canada Media Fund's production and development bundles, and SODEC's DPF and certificat bundles in French. Each bundle follows the funder's own published list of required documents and is assembled from the project as a Word document.
Funder applications, Canada tab. -
CAVCO certification and the credits
The CAVCO tracker scores the 10-point schedule from the cast and crew's nationality, checks the corporation conditions, the two essential conditions and the two 75% services tests, and tracks Part A, Part B and the claims. It then works out the federal credit and stacks the provincial one on top. For the demo, with C$2.4M of qualified Ontario labour:
- 9 / 10
- Creative points, against the 6 required.
- C$600,000
- CPTC: 25% of qualified labour, refundable.
- C$840,000
- Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit: 35% of qualified Ontario labour.
- C$1,440,000
- Combined, after treating the provincial credit as assistance to the federal claim, with an option to model an advance of 80% against it.
CAVCO tracker: eligibility and the creative points, filled from the cast and crew records. 
The federal and provincial credit estimate, ready to push to the finance plan. -
The funder calendar
One click loads the Canadian funder rounds, Telefilm, the CMF, the NFB, the private funds and the provincial agencies, each with its window and eligibility. Where a funder's future is uncertain, the round says so; the CMF rounds carry the note on the CRTC streaming contributions now being reset.
Funder rounds after loading the Canadian set. -
Company admin
Cúram, the company admin tracker, starts from a Canadian starter pack for the home province: CRA source-deduction remittances, GST/HST returns, the T2 return and balance due dated from the fiscal year-end, T4 and T4A slips, the Corporations Canada and Ontario annual returns, insurance renewals and the PIPEDA review, each with reminders.
Cúram after applying the Ontario starter pack. -
Recoupment to the funders' rules
An empty waterfall can start from Telefilm's recoupment rules or the CMF's standard model. Telefilm's set depends on its participation: at C$500,000 or less, 10% of the producer's share for seven years; above that, pari passu with the other contributions, with the 5% corridor when it is above C$1.5M and an international MG exceeds C$250,000. Amounts come from the active finance plan; the demo has none, so they read zero here.
The demo's waterfall after loading Telefilm's recoupment rules. -
Co-production with Ireland
The co-production structurer applies the Canada–Ireland Audiovisual Co-production Treaty: at least 15% each (10% in a multipartite work), seven of the eight key positions held by nationals of the parties, and non-party technical services capped at 25% of the budget. For a 60 / 40 split it reads the eight positions from the demo's cast and crew.
A Canada 60 / Ireland 40 scenario under the treaty. -
Compliance at a glance
The compliance view keeps the domains that apply in Canada and drops the Irish and UK statutory ones.
Compliance overview.
Also in the module, not shown here
- Payroll oversight: T4, T4A and NR4 figures from paid timesheets to reconcile against your payroll provider, non-resident withholding waivers, workers' compensation and union admin fees, and the Record of Employment.
- The GST/HST return (GST34) and, for Québec, the combined GST and QST return (FPZ-500), drafted from the ledger.
- Service work under the PSTC, with provincial service credits and the studio credit statement.
- Child performers under Ontario's Protecting Child Performers Act and BC's regulation, and working-time audits against provincial employment standards.
- Québec's Law 25 privacy pack and French onboarding for crew.