Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma is a CPA with a focus on the practical tax challenges facing Canadian small and mid-sized businesses, from first incorporation to eventual sale. After completing her CGA designation and spending five years at a regional firm specializing in owner-managed businesses, Priya founded Sharma Business Advisory to serve entrepreneurs across the Greater Toronto Area. Her SR&ED practice is one of the busiest in Peel Region: she has prepared or reviewed over 200 SR&ED claims covering software development, manufacturing processes, and life sciences, helping clients recover more than $40 million in federal and provincial tax credits. Priya is the go-to expert in her network for payroll compliance questions — remittance schedules, T4 reporting, employer health tax, and the increasingly complex rules around worker classification. She also advises startups on the optimal corporate structure for receiving SRED, government grants, and angel investment, including the interaction between the Small Business Deduction and passive income rules. She holds regular free workshops for entrepreneurs at the Mississauga Business Enterprise Centre and is a volunteer mentor for the Futurpreneur Canada program. Priya writes for Tax Simplified on the topics she gets asked about most often: keeping CRA happy, claiming every dollar you're entitled to, and avoiding the payroll and corporate tax mistakes that cost small business owners the most.