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United States in 60 words

The United States taxes its citizens and permanent residents on worldwide income wherever they live, which makes the filing obligation independent of residence. Expats in United States do not share a single tax position. This page separates them by residence first, because every other answer follows from that one.

Who we act for here

Canadians working on US visas, US citizens resident in Canada, and Indian founders whose first foreign entity is a US one.

Regional filing pattern

A calendar year with in-year instalments and withholding at source on non-resident payments describes most of the region. The instalment rhythm is what surprises new arrivals.

The question that decides it

The United States taxes its citizens and permanent residents on worldwide income wherever they live, which makes the filing obligation independent of residence — and state rules apply their own residency and sourcing tests that a federal treaty does not bind.

Buying or selling property in United States

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

A property transaction in United States usually involves a withholding or clearance step before the money moves, and that step is applied for before closing or not at all. Afterwards it becomes a refund claim with its own time limit.

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Fixed fees for buying or selling property in United States, agreed up front

Buying or selling property in United States turns on whether a withholding certificate has to be obtained from the tax authority before closing, and on whether the purchase records and improvement receipts still exist or have to be reconstructed. A single sale with clean records is a short engagement; a certificate application and a rebuilt cost base is the larger piece of work.

Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for the year you leave, the year you arrive, and the years you earn rental or pension income from a country you no longer live in.
See the fee schedule

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

One engagement for a personal return that touches more than one country: the income, the assets held abroad and the relief claimed against them.
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Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The information returns that carry the heaviest penalties — foreign accounts, foreign property, foreign affiliates — prepared from one asset list.
See the fee schedule

Estate & trust filing

From $799

fixed, quoted before work starts

The returns an estate or trust owes on each side, prepared together so relief for tax paid abroad is actually claimed.
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Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Bringing an unfiled history current: which years are still open, which programme applies, and what the exposure is before you commit.
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Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Corporate returns with foreign income, related-party reporting and cross-border structures, for companies of any size.
See the fee schedule

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The employer side of mobility — where to register, what to withhold, and what to report once someone works across a border.
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

All published fees on one page — the whole fee schedule in one place, with no from-to bands to decode.

Do you still file at home?

The honest answer is that moving to United States changes nothing automatically. Canada stops taxing worldwide income only when the ties actually end; the United States never stops while the citizenship or the card is held; India tests days rather than intentions. Each of those is established on evidence rather than assertion.

The United States taxes its citizens and permanent residents on worldwide income wherever they live, which makes the filing obligation independent of residence — and state rules apply their own residency and sourcing tests that a federal treaty does not bind.

Residency and the tie-breaker

Where United States and your home country disagree, the treaty picks one — provided a treaty is in force. The evidence that decides it is contemporaneous and specific, which means it is gathered at the time or reconstructed expensively later.

Treaty status is verified, not presumed. Whether an agreement with United States is in force for your year, and what the relevant article says after any protocol or multilateral modification, is confirmed at source before the position goes on a return.

Income by type: who taxes what

Income typeGeneral treatment
Employment incomeGenerally taxable where the work is physically performed, with a treaty exemption for short assignments where the presence, employer and cost tests are all met.
Crypto disposals while resident thereUsually taxed where you are resident at the moment of disposal, which makes the date you became resident the whole question.
Employment equity (options, units)Sourced across the period between grant and vest, so two countries can tax slices of one gain.
Insurance and annuity payoutsOften outside both the pension article and the other-income article, which is precisely why the treatment has to be checked rather than assumed.
Scholarships, grants and trainee paymentsOften exempted for a limited period from arrival under the students-and-trainees article, claimed by filing rather than automatically.
Royalties on software or know-howDepends on how the payment is characterised; treaty definitions of royalty differ, and some exclude particular categories entirely.
Fees for professional servicesTaxed where the services are performed, subject to any independent-services or business-profits article and to local withholding on gross fees.

The local nuance

The United States taxes its citizens and permanent residents on worldwide income wherever they live, which makes the filing obligation independent of residence — and state rules apply their own residency and sourcing tests that a federal treaty does not bind. That is the part a general expatriate guide will not tell you, and it is usually the part that decides the number at the bottom of the return.

If your position runs mostly in one direction, the Canada ↔ United States 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 United States — states, provinces and major centres — at our United States 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.

What this looks like with numbers

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

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$129,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 18% on it and the home country would charge 42% on the same amount.

ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$129,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 18%)C$23,220
Home tax on the same income (assumed 42%)C$54,180
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$23,220
Home tax still payableC$30,960

The credit absorbs C$23,220 and leaves C$30,960 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. The interesting question is where your own figures fall relative to that, which is a computation rather than an opinion.

Example figures throughout, selected to make the rule visible, with rates and thresholds assumed for the demonstration. Your actual filing uses figures confirmed with the issuing authority for your tax year.

Three mistakes we see most

  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. Leaving a company or account abroad dormant and unreported on the basis that it does nothing, when the reporting obligation attaches to ownership rather than to activity.
  3. Letting the payer apply the default withholding rate because the residency documentation was not in place before the payment. Recovering it afterwards costs several times what documenting it would have.
  • Every statutory figure in your file is verified for your own year at source.
  • Consultations scheduled to your working day rather than ours.
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If a letter prompted this, bring the letter — it usually contains the answer to half the questions.

Reviewed for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. General information, not advice for your circumstances — call our 24-hour helpline to discuss your own position.

Where expats in United States comes into this file

Most readers of this page are looking for expats in United States. What follows sets out how it works for buying or selling property in United States: who is caught by it, what has to be filed, and what the work costs, agreed before it begins.

People also search for: state tax for expats · how to avoid capital gains tax on foreign property · foreign property tax · are you a resident alien · us australia tax.

Canadians working on US visas, US citizens resident in Canada, and Indian founders whose first foreign entity is a US one.

The four phases of the work

  1. Send the documents as they are

    No tidying required — forward what you have and we tell you what is missing.

  2. Get a fixed quote in writing

    Priced from your actual documents before any work begins, not estimated after.

  3. Both countries prepared together

    One team builds the filings against each other so the relief lands exactly once.

  4. Review, then file

    You approve the finished work before we file it.

What you are actually buying with buying or selling property in United States

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

Key terms behind this page, defined

Resident alien
A non-citizen taxed by the United States as a resident, on worldwide income, because they hold a green card or meet the substantial presence test.
Exit charge
A payment for value transferred when functions, assets or risks are moved out of a jurisdiction in a restructuring.
Dual citizenship
Holding two nationalities. It changes nothing for a residence-based system and everything for a citizenship-based one, which is why one passport can create a lifelong filing obligation.
Protective return
A return filed to preserve deductions and treaty positions where the filer's conclusion is that no tax is owed. Filed late, the deductions can be lost entirely.

Fixed fees around buying or selling property in United States

Property in the United States is rarely a federal question alone: the state where it sits applies its own sourcing rules, and a rental period before the sale brings earlier years into scope. The number of properties, and whether any were let, decides how much of the work below applies to your file.

Individual tax filing

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Personal returns for individuals, expats and non-residents — foreign income, foreign property and treaty relief handled in one engagement.

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Non-resident & departure filings

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The filings that follow a move: the departure year, the arrival year, and the income that keeps arriving from the country behind you.

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Foreign asset & information reporting

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The information returns that carry the heaviest penalties — foreign accounts, foreign property, foreign affiliates — prepared from one asset list.

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Why clients bring buying or selling property in United States to us

Cross-border is the whole practice

International and cross-border tax is all we do — not a sideline next to domestic work. The edge cases on this page are our ordinary Tuesday.

You deal with the person who did the work

The practitioner who prepared and reviewed your file is the one who answers the question about it.

The reporting penalties get named early

The heaviest exposure on a cross-border file is usually a disclosure form, not the tax. We identify which ones apply before a deadline turns into a penalty.

Both sides prepared together

Two returns built against each other by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once and nothing falls between the two systems.

The team at work in the open-plan office

From first call to filed return

Step 1

Establishing the facts

A first call to map the obligations across every country involved

Step 2

Agreeing the fee

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

Step 3

Drafting and review

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

Step 4

Filing and follow-up

You approve the finished work, and we file it

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From first document to filed return

  • Step 1: Hand over the paperwork in any state – Sorting it is our job. Send what exists and we identify what is missing from it.
  • Step 2: Priced before a single form is opened – The fee comes from the documents, agreed in writing, and stays where it was agreed.
  • Step 3: One position across every return – The same facts, filed consistently on each side, so nothing contradicts anything else.
  • Step 4: Filed after you have read it – The completed work reaches you before it reaches an authority.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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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

What these engagements turn on

Case study 1

Inheriting Property in India While Living Abroad

India does not tax the inheritance itself, but the later sale and the money leaving the country both have positions of their own. The file establishes the cost base to use on that sale and what the remittance will require.

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Case study 2

One Employee in a State Nobody Had Registered In

A single person working from home can create payroll registration, withholding and sometimes an income tax filing for the company in that state. The review measures activity against each state's own threshold.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

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 4

One Salesperson Abroad, and a Corporate Filing Obligation

A single employee with authority to conclude contracts can create a taxable presence for the whole company. The review tests what the person actually does against the treaty article, and where a presence exists, works out what profit is attributable to it.

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Case study 5

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.

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Case study 6

Selling Into the US Without an Entity, and Filing in Several States

State obligations are set by each state, and a treaty does not reach them. The review measures activity against each state's own thresholds and separates the states where registration is required from the ones where it is not.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

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 8

One Employee Working From Another Country

A single remote employee can create payroll registration, withholding and social security obligations in their country, and sometimes a corporate presence too. The review sets out each obligation and the order they have to be registered in.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

How and where the work is delivered

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

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

Cross-border tax for sellers shipping worldwide: marketplace withholding, foreign registrations and inventory nexus handled before they become audits.

Marketplaces withhold, remit and report in their own right, so the tax position of a single sale is decided by where the stock sat, where the buyer was and which platform collected — not by where the company is registered. We reconcile the platform's own filings against the returns before either is submitted.

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

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

United States — questions we are asked

Do I have to file at home while living in United States?

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 United States?

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 United States. 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 United States offers one, is normally the first thing to check. Your home country taxes the same rent and credits what was paid.

Do I pay tax when I inherit property abroad?

The inheritance itself is often not income to you, but three other things can create tax: the estate may owe tax where the deceased or the property was situated, some countries tax the recipient directly, and the gain from the date you inherit to the date you sell is yours. Reporting obligations can also attach to holding the asset. See inheriting property abroad.

How do families with assets in two countries handle inheritance?

With paperwork built for both systems rather than one. In practice that means wills that work where each asset actually sits, an executor with authority a foreign bank or land registry will accept, clearance certificates before the estate distributes so the executor is not left personally exposed, and an estate tax exposure calculation done while the person is alive and can still act on it. Doing it afterwards costs more and forecloses most of the options. See cross-border wills and trusts.

Can I avoid capital gains tax on a foreign property?

Not by virtue of it being foreign — there is no exemption for that, and the "keep it offshore" advice you may have read is how people acquire penalties rather than savings. What genuinely reduces the gain is ordinary and legitimate: principal residence relief where the property qualifies and the designation is made correctly, a properly built cost base including acquisition costs and capital improvements, the timing of the disposition, the treaty rules for real property, and credit for the foreign tax paid. See principal residence and foreign property.

Tax terms explained

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More on United States and this corridor

Nearby pages

All country guidesRetiring in UAE — pensions & withholdingMoving back from France — re-establishing residencyRetiring in Italy — pensions & withholdingRetiring in India — pensions & withholdingBuying or selling property in Hong KongMoving back from United States — re-establishing residency

Adjacent services

Canada–Philippines tax corridorNon-resident receiving a Canadian pensionCayman Islands tax for expats — country guideCanada–United Kingdom tax corridorGermany tax for expats — country guideAlgeria tax for expats — country guide

Fee schedule

US return from abroad (1040 + 2555/1116) — fixed-fee priceNewcomer first return — fixed-fee priceForm 3CEB certification (India) — fixed-fee price1040-NR non-resident return — fixed-fee price
No hourly billing, ever

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Describe what happened and which countries are involved; the fee comes back in writing before anything begins.

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