Competitively priced Moving back from UAE — re-establishing residency

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UAE in 60 words

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on. Whether you still file at home is decided by residence rather than by address, and for expats in UAE that single question governs everything below.

Who we act for here

Canadian, American and NRI professionals on Gulf packages, and founders using UAE entities as a regional hub.

Regional filing pattern

With no personal income tax on salary there is nothing to file locally and nothing to credit at home. That removes the usual relief mechanism and puts the entire weight on the residence question.

The question that decides it

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on — so relief depends entirely on whether residence genuinely moved, which makes the ties evidence, not the rate, the whole file.

Moving back from UAE — re-establishing residency

This page takes the UAE corridor and narrows it to one situation. The general position is on the UAE country guide; what follows is what changes for this specific case.

Coming back resets the cost base on everything you still hold — this time on assets that may have grown for years abroad — and the reset is only worth what the arrival-day evidence can prove.

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Fixed fees for moving back from UAE, agreed up front

Moving back from the UAE is priced on the year of return. The part-year in which residence is re-established has to be separated from the Gulf years behind it, and whether accounts, property or a company came back with you decides how much reporting attaches to that first resident return.

Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Arrival and departure years priced as one engagement, with the part-year residence position and the assets deemed disposed of on exit.
See the fee schedule

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for people whose tax position did not stay in one country, including the years residence itself is in question.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The reporting obligations that attach to owning something abroad, worked out from your holdings rather than from the tax return alone.
See the fee schedule

Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

For a filing history that stopped — the penalty position assessed first, then the years filed in the order that protects it.
See the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The corporate return and its cross-border schedules as one engagement, so the group files a consistent position everywhere.
See the fee schedule

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

What an employer owes when an employee works in another country: the registrations, the withholding and the reporting that follow.
See the fee schedule

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Local file, master file and benchmarking for groups trading across borders, documented to the standard the authority expects.
See the fee schedule

Estate & trust filing

From $799

fixed, quoted before work starts

Trust and estate filings that reach across a border, including the reporting a foreign beneficiary or a foreign asset creates.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — the complete list of what each engagement costs, stated as figures rather than ranges.

Do you still file at home?

For a Canadian, the answer turns on residence: Canada taxes residents on worldwide income and non-residents only on Canadian-source income, and residence is decided on ties rather than on where the post is delivered. For a US citizen or green-card holder the answer is yes regardless — the United States taxes its citizens and permanent residents wherever they live. For an Indian resident, the day-count tests decide it, and the transitional status available to some returning residents can change the scope of what India taxes for a period.

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on — so relief depends entirely on whether residence genuinely moved, which makes the ties evidence, not the rate, the whole file.

Residency and the tie-breaker

A dual claim on the same period is settled by whichever treaty test resolves first. In practice that is normally the permanent home or the centre of vital interests, which is why leases, school records and family location matter more than any later explanation.

One check comes before every treaty position: is there a treaty in force for this year, and does the article still read the way it did? Protocols and the multilateral instrument have rewritten parts of the network, so we verify rather than assume.

Income by type: who taxes what

Income typeGeneral treatment
Income from a locally registered company you controlMay be attributed to you before distribution under your home country's controlled-company rules, whatever the local treatment.
Trust distributions received thereDepends on the trust's own residence and on whether the distribution carries income or capital, and the two systems frequently characterise it differently.
Pensions and retirement incomeDecided by the specific pension article, which is the least uniform provision in the treaty network.
Dividends, interest and royaltiesTaxed at source by withholding, at a rate a treaty may reduce — but only if the payer holds valid documentation before payment.
Local partnership or LLP shareTaxable where the business is carried on, but whether your home country sees the entity as transparent decides in which year it taxes you.
Government service incomeUsually reserved to the paying state under a dedicated treaty article, regardless of where the person lives.
Interest on local depositsGenerally taxed where it arises by withholding, with the home country taxing the same interest and allowing credit for what was withheld.

The local nuance

Where a jurisdiction levies no personal income tax on employment income, the credit article has nothing to operate on — so relief depends entirely on whether residence genuinely moved, which makes the ties evidence, not the rate, the whole file. General guides stop before this, which is exactly why it is worth establishing early rather than discovering at filing.

If your position runs mostly in one direction, the Canada ↔ UAE cross-border tax page carries both filing calendars side by side, the treaty article by article, and the withholding table.

We also publish regional pages for UAE — states, provinces and major centres — at our UAE regional index, which is the better starting point if your question is about a specific state or province rather than the country as a whole.

The arithmetic, worked through

Here is the rule doing its work on an actual set of amounts.

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$142,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 24% on it and the home country would charge 40% on the same amount.

ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$142,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 24%)C$34,080
Home tax on the same income (assumed 40%)C$56,800
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$34,080
Home tax still payableC$22,720

The credit absorbs C$34,080 and leaves C$22,720 payable at home, because the home rate on this income is the higher of the two. The balance is real cash and it is due on the home timetable, which is why instalments get raised in the first meeting. Change any one of those inputs and the answer moves, which is why we run it on your own figures rather than on an illustration.

These amounts illustrate the mechanism only. The rates and thresholds are assumptions of the example, not your numbers: each is checked against the issuing authority for your specific tax year before any return is filed.

What we fix most often

  1. Assuming the move ended the home-country obligation. Residence ends when the ties end, and a home kept available or a family left behind usually keeps it alive.
  2. Waiting for the foreign assessment before paying anything at home, and collecting interest on a liability that later disappears.
  3. Reporting the foreign account and not the foreign asset, or the reverse, on the assumption that one satisfies the other.
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.
  • Documents move through an access-controlled portal rather than email.
  • Nothing is filed until you have read it.

One call now is worth more than a filing season of guessing.

Read and approved for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. General guidance only. Your own facts decide the answer, so bring them to a call before relying on this.

Expat tax UAE — what this page covers

People reach this page searching for expat tax UAE. It is covered here as it applies to moving back from UAE — who it applies to, what has to be filed, and what it costs, at a fixed fee agreed before the work starts.

Canadian, American and NRI professionals on Gulf packages, and founders using UAE entities as a regional hub.

From first contact to filed return

  1. Documents first, questions second

    We read the file before asking anything, so the questions we do ask are the ones that matter.

  2. A quote you can hold us to

    Fixed in writing against a defined scope. No hourly meter, and no revision after the fact.

  3. The order of filing decided deliberately

    Which return goes first can decide whether relief is available at all. That is planned, not discovered.

  4. Nothing filed without your sign-off

    You see the completed work, ask what you need to, and approve it before submission.

What you are actually buying with moving back from UAE

Factor Legal Quotient Hourly billing model
Pricing A fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts Hourly, billed as incurred
Experience 15+ years of cross-border work, 18,000+ clients Varies by file
Both sides of the border Prepared together by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once One country at a time, reconciled later
Who reviews it A named practitioner, published on the page Whoever the queue reaches
Where the work happens Our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE Whichever single office you can travel to

Four terms worth pinning down

Equalisation levy
An Indian charge on specified digital transactions that sits outside the income tax act, so treaty relief and foreign credit arguments do not work on it in the usual way.
Master file
A transfer-pricing document describing the group as a whole — structure, intangibles, financing — filed locally in several countries at once.
NRO account
A rupee account for a non-resident's Indian-source income, whose interest is generally taxable in India with deduction at source.
Marital deduction
The unlimited transfer between spouses assumed in US estate and gift tax — assumed, because it depends on the recipient spouse being a US citizen.

Fixed fees around moving back from UAE

Some files also carry years left unfiled during the UAE posting, on the assumption that departure had ended the obligation at home. Bringing those years current before the year of return is separate work, and the fee follows how many are open and whether the records for them still exist.

Individual tax filing

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Individual returns where salary, investments or property sit outside the country of residence, prepared so relief is claimed once and in the right place.

See this fee page

Non-resident & departure filings

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Non-resident filings and the two part-year returns a move produces, sequenced so neither country taxes the same income twice.

See this fee page

Foreign asset & information reporting

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The reporting obligations that attach to owning something abroad, worked out from your holdings rather than from the tax return alone.

See this fee page

What working with us on moving back from UAE looks like

Filed with the authority, not just prepared

The engagement runs to submission and to the correspondence that follows it, including the queries that arrive months later.

The order of filing is planned, not improvised

Which return goes first decides whether relief can be claimed at all. That sequence is worked out before anything is submitted.

Late and missed years are ordinary work

An unfiled history is not a reason to wait longer. We assess what is still open and what relief the delay attracts before the first return goes in.

A named reviewer on every file

Every page on this site and every file we deliver says which practitioner reviewed it — a person, not a team inbox.

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Moving back from UAE — the four phases

Step 1

First conversation

A first call to map the obligations across every country involved

Step 2

Written quote

A single fixed fee covering the whole set, agreed before we begin

Step 3

Preparation and sign-off

Preparation in the order that makes the relief usable, with a reviewer's sign-off

Step 4

Submission

You approve the finished work, and we file it

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The engagement, start to finish

  • Step 1: Start with a conversation about the facts – Dates, residence, where the income arose. Fifteen minutes is usually enough to know what applies.
  • Step 2: Scope and price, both written down – You get the scope and the fixed fee together, so there is no question later about what was included.
  • Step 3: Prepared by one team, reviewed by a named practitioner – The same people see both sides of the file, and the reviewer signs their name to it.
  • Step 4: Filed, then followed through – Submission is not the end of the engagement — the queries that arrive afterwards are part of it.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Where to go next

Every link below is a full page of its own — the same depth as this one, for its own subject.

Core services for this situation

Repatriating money out of India Repatriating money out of India — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Treaty shopping & beneficial ownership The full guide to treaty shopping beneficial ownership, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
US sales tax nexus for foreign sellers Its own page: US sales tax nexus for foreign sellers — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Indian mutual fund TDS for NRIs Everything on Indian mutual fund TDS for NRIs, at the same depth as this page.
US s.482 documentation US s.482 documentation — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Repatriation planning The full guide to repatriation planning, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Social security totalization agreements — Canada and the US Its own page: social security totalization agreement Canada US — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
India ↔ Australia — DTAA Everything on India ↔ Australia — DTAA, at the same depth as this page.
Foreign income subject to self-employment tax Is foreign income subject to self employment tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Who we help

Software developers — relief you're probably missing Software developers relief you're probably missing — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Education & ed-tech cross-border tax The full guide to education & ed-tech cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Amazon FBA sellers — your filing calendar Its own page: amazon fba sellers your filing calendar — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Dev & design agencies cross-border tax Everything on dev & design agencies cross border tax, at the same depth as this page.
Investment funds cross-border tax Investment funds cross border tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Tax for architects The full guide to architects tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for physicians & surgeons Its own page: physicians & surgeons tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Construction & contracting — what you owe in each country Everything on construction & contracting what you owe in each country, at the same depth as this page.
Professors & lecturers — what we charge Professors & lecturers what we charge — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

The corridors we work every week

Canada–Germany tax corridor Canada Germany tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Moving back from New Zealand — re-establishing residency The full guide to moving back from New Zealand, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Buying or selling property in New Zealand Its own page: buying or selling property in New Zealand — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
US–UAE tax corridor Everything on US UAE tax, at the same depth as this page.
Buying or selling property in Spain Buying or selling property in Spain — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Buying or selling property in Qatar The full guide to buying or selling property in Qatar, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Retiring in Qatar — pensions & withholding Its own page: retiring in Qatar — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Retiring in United States — pensions & withholding Everything on retiring in United States, at the same depth as this page.
Moving back from Mexico — re-establishing residency Moving back from Mexico — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

The people on your file

Five named practitioners, each with the part of a cross-border file they carry. Every page on this site says who reviewed it, and the reviewer is one of these people rather than an unnamed team.

Udit Gupta

Udit Gupta

Cross-Border Tax Expert

CA (ICAI), In-Depth Tax Trained

Reviews and signs off the practice's cross-border positions, and carries final responsibility for the treaty analysis on every file that leaves the office.

Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta

Canada Tax / International Tax

Canada Tax, International Tax, Cross-Border Tax, Transfer Pricing

Canadian returns with foreign income, non-resident filings, and the transfer-pricing documentation that runs alongside intercompany work.

Raghav Gupta

Raghav Gupta

International Tax

International Tax, Transfer Pricing Specialist

Benchmarking, method selection and the local-file and master-file sets that support a group's pricing policy under examination.

Anmol Mittal

Anmol Mittal

Canada and US tax

CPA Canada, CPA USA, CA (ICAI)

Files that have to be right on both sides of the border at once — dual filings, streamlined catch-ups, and the foreign tax credit reconciliation between them.

Vinayak Indolia

Vinayak Indolia

CFO advisory

CPA, CA. Fractional CFO and Senior Advisory Specialist

Groups that need the tax position and the finance function to agree: structure reviews, intercompany policy, and the reporting a board can act on.

Meet the whole team

Files that look like this one

Case study 1

Residency Changed Mid-Year and Both Returns Assumed a Full One

A move part-way through a year produces two part-year positions, not two full ones. The engagement establishes the date residence actually changed, allocates income either side of it, and amends whichever return was filed on the wrong footing.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

A Residency Determination Review After Leaving the Country

Residence is decided on ties, not on a form, and the review asks for evidence of every one of them. The file assembles the ties that were severed and the ones that remained, and answers the questionnaire against the treaty rather than around it.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

Trips That Added Up to a Filing Obligation

Short visits are tracked against a treaty threshold that is measured over a moving window rather than a calendar year. Where the threshold is passed, the obligation reaches back over the whole period.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

The Year of Leaving India

The departure year carries a transition status with its own treatment of foreign income, and the position for the following years follows from how it is set. Getting the first year right saves arguing about the rest.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

Treaty Relief Claimed on a Cross-Border Estate

The estate article can extend a proportionate credit where the two systems would otherwise both tax the same asset. Claiming it requires a valuation and a disclosure the estate may not expect to make.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

Social Security Contributions Owed in Two Countries at Once

A totalization agreement assigns contributions to one system and exempts the other, but only against a certificate obtained in advance. Without it both sets come out of the same salary and neither is straightforward to recover.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

The Same Income Taxed Twice on Paper

Relief usually exists and is lost to sequence: one country taxes at source and the other credits it, and preparing them in the wrong order claims a credit against a figure nobody has computed.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

A US Filer Married to Someone Outside the System

Electing to treat a non-resident spouse as a US filer buys joint rates and brings that spouse's worldwide income and foreign accounts into the return. The election is easy to make and hard to revoke, so both positions are modelled first.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Delivery, coverage and how we work

Browse sideways: the pages below answer the neighbouring questions.

Where the work is delivered

More coverage detail

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.

Treaty residency & tie-breaker
FATCA reporting (Form 8938)
Foreign tax credit (Form 1116)
Multi-country filing calendar
Real estate holding structures
International tax planning
Pre-immigration tax planning
Family office structures
One coordinating team: filings on every side of the border are sequenced so treaty relief and foreign tax credits are claimed once — and in the right country.

U.S. & Cross-Border Tax Returns

Form 1040 from abroad
US state non-resident returns
FBAR (FinCEN 114) filing
Form 5472 — foreign-owned US corp
FIRPTA withholding (Form 8288)
US estate tax exposure
IRS streamlined foreign offshore
PFIC reporting (Form 8621)
Dual filers: U.S. citizens in Canada and Canadians with U.S. income run two parallel systems — we prepare both, in the right order, every year.

Expat & Emigration Tax

Departure tax leaving Canada
T1161 properties on emigration
Residency planning
Step-up in cost base on arrival
Split-year residency
Employment income under a treaty
Social security totalization
Returning to Canada after years abroad
The move year is its own project: the elections and valuations filed that year decide the next decade of both countries’ returns.

Non-Resident Canadian Tax

Section 216 rental return
NR4 & NR6 withholding
Section 217 pension return
Section 116 clearance certificate
Regulation 105 waiver
Non-resident employment income
Taxable Canadian property
Part XIII withholding review
Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

s.247 contemporaneous documentation
Functional & risk analysis
Benchmarking study
Intercompany agreements
Country-by-country report
BEPS & Pillar Two
Permanent establishment risk
TP audit defence file
Documentation prepared with the return is the cheapest insurance in international tax; reconstructing it during an audit is the most expensive.

Cross-Border Estates & Trusts

Cross-border wills
US estate tax for non-resident aliens
Terminal return & clearance certificate
Non-resident trusts (s.94)
T1141 & T1142 trust reporting
Inheriting property abroad
Graduated rate estates
Post-mortem planning & pipeline
Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

Entity selection across borders
Business profits & PE
Intercompany loans & thin cap
Paying dividends to a foreign parent
Global mobility & day tracking
Debt vs equity funding
Branch or subsidiary
Cross-border M&A due diligence
Expansion raises the same four questions every time — entity, PE, repatriation, payroll. We answer them before the tax authorities do.

India Tax for NRIs & Returning Residents

NRI residency day tests
NRE, NRO & FCNR accounts
TDS on property (s.195)
Lower or nil TDS certificate
Repatriating sale proceeds
Capital gains on Indian shares
India–Canada DTAA
ITR-2 for NRIs
The deduction is taken on the sale price, not the gain — which is why an NRI property sale strands cash unless the certificate is applied for before closing.

Canadian Tax with a Foreign Element

T1135 foreign property
T1134 foreign affiliates
Departure tax
Newcomer's first return
Returning to Canada
Split-year residency
US citizens in Canada
Canada–US corridor
Residency is decided on facts, not on a form — and the year you arrive or leave is the one where the largest amounts turn on the smallest details.

UAE Tax for Expats & Their Home Country

Expat tax in the UAE
Moving to the UAE
Moving back from the UAE
UAE property purchases
Retiring in the UAE
Canada–UAE corridor
India–UAE DTAA
US–UAE corridor
A zero-tax country is only half the answer — the question that decides the bill is whether the country you came from still treats you as resident.

Industries & Client Types We Serve Worldwide

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces
Technology & SaaS
Professional Services Firms
Cross-Border Real Estate
Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers
Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
Investment Funds & Holding Companies

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces

  • Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
  • Marketplace withholding reviews
  • Inventory nexus & PE analysis
  • Multi-currency books reconciled
Explore E-commerce & Marketplaces

Technology & SaaS

  • Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
  • IP structuring with real substance
  • Equity for cross-border teams
  • U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
Explore Technology & SaaS

Cross-Border Real Estate

Foreign property income and sales are taxed in both countries by default; Section 216, FIRPTA and treaty credits are the standing toolkit.

Property is taxed where it sits, which is the one rule no treaty overrides. What the treaty does decide is the credit, the rate on the rent and what happens on the sale — and the clearance certificate on a disposition is applied for before closing, not after the buyer has already held the money back.

  • Section 216 rental returns
  • FIRPTA withholding recovery
  • Section 116 clearance
  • Treaty credit optimization
Explore Real Estate

Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
Explore Trade & Manufacturing

Athletes, Artists & Entertainers

  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
Explore Athletes & Entertainers

Remote Workers & Digital Nomads

  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
Explore Remote Workers

Investment Funds & Holding Companies

  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

UAE — questions we are asked

Do I have to file at home while living in UAE?

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 UAE?

Treaty networks change with each protocol and each multilateral-instrument position, so we confirm the treaty in force for your specific year with the issuing authority rather than relying on a published summary. Where there is none, unilateral relief and domestic law do the work instead.

I own property in UAE. Where is the rent taxed?

Where the property is. That is close to universal, and it usually arrives as withholding on the gross rent rather than as a return on the profit — which is why the election onto a net basis, where UAE offers one, is normally the first thing to check. Your home country taxes the same rent and credits what was paid.

I work remotely from another country for a company back home — who taxes me?

Usually the country you are physically in, because employment income is generally sourced where the work is done, with your residence country taxing it as well if you are resident there and giving credit. Three things follow: your employer may acquire withholding and social security obligations where you sit, a treaty tie-breaker may be needed if both countries call you resident, and a short trip that becomes a long stay can cross a residence threshold nobody was watching. See remote workers and digital nomads.

What happens if two countries both say I am resident?

The treaty tie-breaker resolves it to one residence, applied in order: where your permanent home is, then your centre of vital interests, then your habitual abode, then nationality, with a competent-authority referral if all of those fail. It is an evidence exercise rather than an election — you document the home and the life around it. Getting a single residence settled is what makes every other position in both returns consistent. See the residency tie-breaker.

Do dual citizens pay taxes in both countries?

Both countries can have a claim, but paying double taxes on the same dollar is the exception rather than the rule. The United States taxes its citizens wherever they live; Canada, India and most others tax on residence. So a dual citizen living in one of them often files in both — a resident return in one, a citizen return in the other — while the credit and exclusion rules mean the total is usually close to the higher of the two, not the sum. Filing twice is not paying twice. See two returns as a dual citizen.

Tax terms explained

Section 116 clearanceArrival valuationT1134Reverse hybridStreamlined domestic offshoreTreaty shoppingForeign affiliateEstate tax treaty reliefCertificate of residencyFEMAGST/HSTAngel taxReassessment periodAdjusted cost base Browse the full A–Z glossary

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