Do I have to file at home while living in Bangladesh?
It depends on residence, not on address — except for US citizens and green-card holders, for whom the answer is yes regardless of where they live. We settle the residence question first, because every other answer follows from it.
Is there a treaty between my country and Bangladesh?
Possibly, and the version in force for your year is the one that matters — protocols and multilateral-instrument positions change what a treaty does without changing its name. We check it against the authority rather than a summary. Where no treaty applies, domestic relief takes over.
I own property in Bangladesh. Where is the rent taxed?
Rent from immovable property is almost always taxable where the property is situated, frequently by withholding on the gross amount, with your home country taxing the same income and giving credit. A net-basis election, where one exists, is usually the difference between tax on profit and tax on turnover.
Do I still pay Canadian tax on rent from my flat in Dhaka?
If you remain resident in Canada, the rent is taxable there on the worldwide basis, reported in Canadian dollars, with the Bangladeshi tax you actually bore claimed as a credit rather than netted off the rent. The complication in this corridor is not the arithmetic. Rent is commonly collected net, with tax taken at source by the tenant or the managing agent, and the credit depends on being able to evidence that deduction. Ask for the deduction certificate at the time the rent is paid; reconstructing it a year later is much harder than obtaining it as you go.
How do I prove Bangladeshi tax was deducted at source?
With the certificate the deductor issues, not with a bank statement showing a net amount. A home-country credit is given for foreign tax paid, and a net receipt on its own does not establish who paid what to whom. In this corridor the certificates are generally available but are not sent out automatically, so the practical step is to ask the tenant, the agent or the bank for them each year and keep them with the lease or deposit paperwork. Where an earlier year has already been filed without evidence, the certificate can usually still be obtained and that year adjusted.
I inherited family property in Bangladesh, do I have to report it?
Inheriting it is not, by itself, income at home. What changes is your holding. Foreign property above the reporting threshold has to be disclosed on the home country's foreign-asset information return, and any rent it produces from the date you acquire it is taxable where you are resident. If the property sits empty there may be nothing to include in income and still something to report. Establish the value at the date you acquired it now: that figure decides the gain when the property is eventually sold, and it is far harder to evidence years later.
Why does the Bangladeshi tax year not match my Canadian return?
Because the two systems close their years on different dates. That is a timing problem rather than a legal one, but it shapes the credit claim, because foreign tax has to be allocated to the home tax year in which the underlying income arose, not simply claimed in the year the foreign assessment happened to be issued. Where rent runs continuously the allocation is usually straightforward once the local statements are read month by month. Where a bonus or a one-off payment straddles the two year ends, set the working out in the file, because that is the point a reviewer asks about.
I work on a regional assignment out of Dhaka, where am I resident?
Residence is decided on facts, not on the address in your contract. Your home country looks at where your home, your family and your settled routine remain; Bangladesh applies its own test to your presence there. Both can answer yes, which is what the treaty tie-break exists to resolve, and it is resolved in an order: permanent home, then centre of vital interests, then habitual abode. Assignment patterns that rotate through several countries in a year often fail to break cleanly at the first step, so keep a day record and keep the housing and family documents from the outset.
Can I claim a credit for tax withheld on my Bangladeshi deposits?
Usually yes, if you were resident at home when the interest arose and you can show the deduction. Deposit interest in this corridor is typically paid net, so the amount that reaches the account is not the amount to report: the gross figure goes into income and the tax taken becomes the credit. The credit is capped by the home-country tax on that same income, so where the local rate is the higher one, part of it may not be recoverable. The bank will issue a certificate for the deduction if asked, but it does not arrive with the statement.
Am I a US tax resident if I live overseas?
If you are a US citizen or a green card holder, yes — the United States taxes on status, not location, and living abroad changes the reliefs available rather than the obligation to file. If you are neither, residence turns on the substantial presence test, a weighted day count over three years, with exceptions for certain visa categories and a closer-connection claim available in some circumstances. The two paths lead to completely different returns. See filing US taxes from abroad.
How do I qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion?
The exclusion means exactly what it says — foreign earned income left out of the US tax base — and to qualify you need a tax home in a foreign country and then one of two tests. The bona fide residence test asks whether you were genuinely settled there for an uninterrupted period including a full tax year — a facts-and-circumstances judgment. The physical presence test is arithmetic: a set number of full days in foreign countries within any twelve consecutive months, which you may choose to maximise the exclusion. They are alternatives, and a housing amount sits alongside. See the foreign earned income exclusion.
