Director · US Tax Practice · Legal Quotient Consultants
The US return, and everything a foreign life adds to it
CPA (USA), CA (India)
Aditi Koolwal looks after the US tax practice at Legal Quotient Consultants. She is qualified in the United States and in India, which is the combination a US return with a foreign life attached to it needs.
The US taxes its citizens and green-card holders wherever they live, so her files are rarely just a Form 1040. They are a 1040 with foreign income, foreign accounts and foreign tax already paid, prepared so the relief is claimed and nothing that has to be reported is missed.
- US tax practice
- US and India qualified
Areas of expertise
US individual tax
Form 1040 for citizens and green-card holders abroad, and for non-residents with US income.
Foreign income and credits
Foreign tax credits and the foreign earned income exclusion.
US and India
Qualified in both countries, for Americans with an Indian side to their finances and Indians with US income.
Qualifications
United States accounting designation
Passed the uniform accountancy examination used across the United States and certified by a US state board of accountancy.
Chartered Accountant (India)
Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the statutory body that regulates the chartered accountancy profession in India. Membership follows the Institute's examinations and a period of practical training.
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com)
Undergraduate degree in commerce.
What Aditi handles
US individual returns
Form 1040 for citizens and green-card holders living outside the United States, and for non-residents with US income.
Foreign account reporting
FBAR and Form 8938, and which of them a given account or holding triggers.
Foreign tax credits and exclusions
the credit, or the foreign earned income exclusion, that keeps income taxed abroad from being taxed again.
Catch-up filing
years that were missed, brought current through the appropriate programme.
Who Aditi works with
US citizens abroad
Americans living in Canada, India or the UAE who still file a US return every year.
Green-card holders
Permanent residents with income, accounts or property outside the United States.
Non-residents with US income
People and businesses abroad earning rent, dividends or business income in the United States.
Disclosures
Professional status. The designations on this page are Aditi Koolwal's own, held personally. Legal Quotient Consultants is not a licensed public accounting firm in Ontario, and nothing here says otherwise.
Scope. This practice prepares and files tax returns and supporting documentation, and represents clients with the revenue authorities. It does not perform audit or assurance engagements.
General information. Nothing on this page is advice for a particular situation. Book a consultation and the position is worked out on the facts of your file, with the fee agreed in writing before any work starts. Call +1 (416) 619-0068.
Profile last reviewed September 2026.
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A Retirement Plan That Grows Tax-Deferred in Only One Country
Cross-border retirement accounts are recognised by treaty, but the deferral usually has to be elected rather than assumed. The engagement checks whether the election was made, makes it where it was missed, and reports the account on whichever side requires it.
Read how this one runsA US LLC Owned From Canada
The two countries classify the vehicle differently, so relief that ought to apply frequently does not and the same profit can be taxed in both hands. The engagement examines whether the structure can be changed and what the change itself costs.
Read how this one runsA Second Opinion on a Return Already Filed
A cross-border return prepared on one side only is usually right in isolation and wrong in combination. The review checks residence, source and relief in that order, and says plainly whether an amendment is worth making.
Read how this one runsA TFSA That Costs More Than It Saves
Canadian tax-free accounts are not tax-free to a US person, and some of them carry a reporting form of their own. The file is a review of what is held, what each account triggers on the US side, and whether the account is worth keeping once the reporting is priced in.
Read how this one runsAccounts Reported Late When the Income Already Was
Where the income was on the return and only the account report was missed, a narrow route allows late filing with a reason attached. It is open only while no income is unreported and no examination has begun, which is why it is checked first.
Read how this one runsA Clean History Used to Remove a First Penalty
An administrative waiver can remove a first failure where the filing and payment record supports it, and it is spent once used. Whether to claim it now or keep it for a heavier year is a judgement made with the whole file in view.
Read how this one runsCatching Up From Inside the United States
The domestic route suits a filer who was resident in the US through the missed years, and it differs from the offshore one in what it asks for and what it costs. Choosing between them before anything is filed is the whole engagement.
Read how this one runsPaid for Work Done in Canada While Living Elsewhere
Employment carried out in Canada is taxable here even where the employer and the bank account are not. The engagement establishes how many of the days were worked in Canada, applies the treaty employment article, and deals with the withholding the payer has already taken.
Read how this one runsAll case studies — every published engagement in one place.
Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services
Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.
Industries & Client Types We Serve Worldwide
- Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
- Marketplace withholding reviews
- Inventory nexus & PE analysis
- Multi-currency books reconciled
- Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
- IP structuring with real substance
- Equity for cross-border teams
- U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
- Reg 105 / 102 waivers
- Permanent establishment risk
- Partner mobility planning
- Cross-border withholding recovery
- Section 216 rental returns
- FIRPTA withholding recovery
- Section 116 clearance
- Treaty credit optimization
- Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
- Customs value vs transfer price
- Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
- Country-by-country reporting
- Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
- Multi-state & country calendars
- Touring income allocation
- Royalty & image-rights withholding
Working from anywhere doesn't mean taxed nowhere: residency defaults, employer payroll exposure and treaty relief decide where income actually lands.
Working from another country does not by itself end tax residence in the one you left, and it can start one where you are sitting. Day counts, ties, the employer's own exposure and the treaty tie-breaker all point at the same question, and the year you move is the year it has to be answered on paper.
- Residency analysis before moving
- Employer payroll exposure
- Totalization & social security
- Foreign tax credits
- Treaty access & PPT reviews
- FAPI & surplus computations
- Withholding-efficient routing
- Governance & substance
