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US Federal Income Tax – Gains on Sale of your Canadian Home Part 2

01/01/1970
When an individual ceases to be a resident of Canada, he is deemed to have sold his worldwide assets (with some exceptions) and is subject to Canadian tax on any accrued gains in the year he emigrates from Canada. While Canadian real properties are not ...
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While you were away

01/01/1970
The weather this summer in the Lower Mainland was one of the best in memory. So while you (and us) were busy on the water or on the golf course, both countries were busy changing and tweaking tax laws as they apply to individuals in ...
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IRS Streamlined Procedures – Update on Non-Residency Requirements

01/01/1970
On June 18th, the IRS released revisions to the Streamlined Procedures. Our June 19th blog entry summarized these changes and raised concerns over the non-residency requirement. In particular, the requirement that a person spend more than 330 days outside the U.S. in each of the ...
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Internal Revenue Service announces changes to Streamlined Programs

01/01/1970
On June 18th, the Internal Revenue Service announced changes to the Offshore Programs to help ease the tax reporting compliance burden on delinquent taxpayers and assist more taxpayers to come forward to get their U.S. tax return filing obligations up to date. Now referred to ...
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Revised CRA Form T1135 – CRA Provides Filing Deadline Extension for 2013 Filers

01/01/1970
For the 2013 tax year the Canada Revenue Agency released a revised Form T1135 to report specified foreign property where the cost amount exceeded Cdn$100,000 at any time in the year. This revised form requires detailed reporting of each foreign property as opposed to the ...
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Consulting in the U.S. – Planning in advance well worth it

01/01/1970
Independent consultants in Canada will often incorporate their practice in order to offer some liability protection not otherwise achieved through a sole-proprietorship structure. From a Canadian income tax perspective, the incorporated consultant will often make the choice between compensating himself by way of salary or ...
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Death and Taxes – U.S. Citizens Living in Canada

01/01/1970
U.S. citizens who die while resident in Canada face taxation issues from two countries: Canadian income tax on unrealized gains and certain tax deferred assets and U.S. federal estate tax on the fair market value of all assets. This blog briefly summarizes the tax issues ...
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Mexican Land Trusts are Not Trusts for US Federal Income Tax Purposes

01/01/1970
In a recent Revenue Ruling, the IRS concluded that a fideicomiso or Mexican Land Trust (“MLT”) arrangement is not a trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. This was welcome news to many U.S. citizens that own land located in Mexico through an MLT. As ...
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Canada U.S. Tax Treaty – US Nonresident Alien Using “Married Filing Joint” Tax Rates

01/01/1970
Two recent client situations remind us that certain provisions in the Canada US Income Tax Convention (“Treaty”) can lower a client’s overall tax liability even where the answer isn’t so obvious when entering information in tax software. The first example is the subject of today’s ...
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