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PlainName:
Yes, I might agree with you. But it is what it is, and the chance of changing that is not very high
drussell:
Sometimes the CEO isn't even a director of the corporation, though often they are.

It is the DIRECTORS that are legally responsible for the corporation, and they're supposed to know what is going on.  While corporations are a separate legal entity, they still have actual humans that are supposed to be responsible for actions taken or not taken.  The problem is that they're rarely actually held responsible for the actions of the corporation when something goes "wrong".

PlainName:

--- Quote ---It is the DIRECTORS that are legally responsible for the corporation,
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Might be different in Canada, but here in Blighty directors are only responsible for the process of running a company. With a few exceptions they aren't personally responsible for what the company does, unless it amounts to fraud. One exception is for manslaughter through gross negligence, and some H&SE stuff counts, I think. Mind, manslaughter is usually down to some H&SE negligence.

One reason for the lack of personal responsibility may be that a director doesn't decide much. What the company does is down to a vote of all directors, so the company might do something naughty despite a director voting not to do it. You can't hang him for that, so it's impractical to make one person responsible for everyone elses choices.
Red Squirrel:
I was looking into it and here in Canada there is no such thing as a LLC.   You either do a sole proprietoryship, or a full blown incorporation or corporation (I'm honestly not sure what the difference is between the two).  From my understanding both inc and corp require you to have a board of directors, issue shares, etc...  so it's a pretty huge deal to manage and you basically need a team of people to fill all those roles.   There's also lot of paperwork involved and the government site does not really explain in much details so you almost need an accountant or lawyer or something to figure it all out for you.  Like you need to "file" once a year, and you need to have special meetings with minutes, so I imagine that has a certain format that is required too.  It's quite involved.   I looked into it as I was thinking it would be cool to start a corporation in case I decide to monetize a hobby, and it would also act as a way to write off living expenses.  Like if I make my house owned by the corporation and charge myself rent, I could write off all the utility bills etc.    But yeah it's quite involved and I don't even know if that would be legal.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---You either do a sole proprietoryship, or a full blown incorporation or corporation
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Sound pretty much the same as here, except we have partnerships as well (which is essentially removing liability as with a company, but not having to file accounts).

A company can be anything from a one-man band to multinational megacorp - they are all pretty much the same, just a matter of scale. You say your corporations have to file accounts once a year, have shares, special meetings with minutes, accountants, etc. That applies to the one employee company here too, and yet many many people run one-man limited companies.

Might be different for you, although I doubt it, but here you can't really pull a fast one and have the company pay for your living expenses - TPTB already thought of that one! The company can pay for stuff that's used solely for the company (for instance, a phone line used just for work calls), but if there is any personal use then the user pays tax on that. 'Benefit in kind' it is called. Get a company car and if you use it for anything not completely company related you pay tax on the perceived benefit you get from it.
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