How to surrender a corporation charter — and autofill 07070 with my-id.ca
Apply to terminate corporate existence without retyping director details
Directors of Ontario corporations under the Corporations Act surrendering their charter repeat corporation legal name, registered office address, director names, and contact information on every Form 9 application. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:
- Service page: Ontario Business Registry — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): Application for Surrender of Charter/Termination of Corporate Existence, Form 9, Corporations Act — 07070
What this form is about
Form 07070 is Form 9 — Application for Surrender of Charter or Termination of Corporate Existence under the Corporations Act — confirm filing requirements on ontario.ca.
Before you start: what to gather
- Corporation legal name and Ontario corporation number.
- Registered office address and director names and addresses.
- Surrender resolutions and certificate of dissolution if applicable.
- Filing fee — confirm on ontario.ca.
Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Save it once. Store your corporation name, address, and director contact details in your my-id.ca profile.
- Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to my-id.ca Files so you are not searching at form time.
- Autofill the form. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Review and submit yourself through the official channel.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in my-id.ca — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.
Frequently asked questions
- When should a corporation surrender its charter?
- When the corporation is winding up and no longer carrying on business — confirm on ontario.ca.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It autofills corporation name, address, and director contact details.
- How does 07070 relate to articles of dissolution under the BCA?
- BCA corporations file articles of dissolution instead — confirm which statute governs your entity.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.