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Your Canadian offer as monthly take-home pay, compared with your situation in France.
Updated October 13, 2026Free tool · For businesses
Market-entry checklist
A roadmap adapted to your business model, with progress tracking.
Your roadmap
Sell from France to Canadian distributors or customers.
1. Validate the market
2. Choose a structure
3. Sales tax and income tax
4. Banking, customs and logistics
6. Ongoing compliance
Method, assumptions and limits
The checklist brings together 24 tasks in 6 phases, from validating the market to ongoing compliance. Choose your entry model (export, sell online, sell services or open a local entity): only the relevant tasks are shown.
It is built from obligations published by the Canada Revenue Agency, Revenu Québec, Corporations Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency and IRCC. It does not replace an accountant, tax adviser or lawyer, especially for the legal structure and the France–Canada tax treaty.
Your data
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To go further, see For businesses.
Official sources
- Corporations Canada (Government of Canada)
- GST/HST for businesses (Canada Revenue Agency)
- Revenu Québec – Businesses (Government of Quebec)
- Importing commercial goods (Canada Border Services Agency)
- Canada–EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) (Global Affairs Canada)