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Smythe LLP
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CPA Firm · Real Estate & Construction, Smythe LLP
The CPA firm BC developers have used for over 40 years.
Smythe has advised BC construction companies and real-estate developers since 1980. Client work has included Aquilini Development, Concert Properties, and Devonshire Properties.
1980
Year founded
2
BC offices (Vancouver, Langley)
40+ yrs
Advising BC developers
Meet Smythe LLP
Smythe LLP is a CPA firm founded in 1980, with offices at 475 Howe Street in downtown Vancouver and in Langley. The firm handles accounting, tax, and advisory work for both private and public companies.
Smythe has run a real estate and construction practice since the firm started. Its clients in that group have ranged from construction companies and high-rise developers to corporate landlords and investment funds. Named clients include Aquilini Development, Concert Properties, Devonshire Properties, and Cristall Group. The firm describes a relationship with the Aquilini Group going back more than four decades.
For a development project, the firm works on business structuring across corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures; pro-formas, budgets, and cash-flow analysis on real-estate portfolios; acquisition and sale advisory; and financial reporting under ASPE and IFRS. It also handles intergenerational transfer planning for property held in corporations and represents clients with the CRA and provincial tax authorities.
Smythe is a member of Allinial Global, an international association of independent accounting firms, which extends its reach for cross-border tax and larger engagements.
Credentials
Why work with Smythe
01
Set up the ownership structure before you build
Smythe structures development entities across corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures. For a multiplex, the holding structure you pick at the start affects GST, capital gains, and how partners split returns, so it pays to decide before construction.
02
Pro-formas and cash flow they do every day
The real estate group builds pro-formas, budgets, and cash-flow analyses on real-estate portfolios as core work. That is the same modelling a multiplex project needs to size financing and check whether the numbers hold.
03
Tax authority representation
Smythe represents clients with the CRA and provincial tax authorities. On a build, GST/HST treatment and the sale-vs-rent decision both create tax exposure where having the firm respond on your behalf matters.
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