Competitively priced Data security & privacy

Client data is held under access controls with retention limits, and the same standards apply whether the client is in Toronto or Dubai. Ask us about competitively priced data security & privacy: call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068, or request a written fixed quote today.

  • 15+Years of cross-border experience
  • 18,000+Clients served
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  • 4Global offices — India, USA, Canada & UAE

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Begin with the papers you already have. The engagement is priced from them, in writing, before the work.

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  • Offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE
  • Fixed fee agreed before work starts
  • 15+ years of cross-border experience
In short

Client data is held under access controls with retention limits, and the same standards apply whether the client is in Toronto or Dubai. The practice has offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE — fixed fee agreed in writing before work starts, and nothing filed until you have approved it.

Where we are

Legal Quotient Consultants
381 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3R8, CA
+1-416-619-0068 · contact@lqconsultants.com

There is one office and one review standard behind every file, and the client's location has no bearing on either. Most of our clients have never been to it.

Two of the firm’s advisers and the team in the open-plan office

Data security & privacy — priced before we start

Handling your papers under access controls and retention limits is not a line on the quote; it is how every file is run. What does affect the fee on a data security and privacy question is how many parties and how many jurisdictions the file touches, since each authority has its own rules about what may be shared and kept.

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

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 the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for companies with foreign subsidiaries, foreign income or foreign shareholders, and the schedules each of those triggers.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Accounts, property and company interests held outside the country of residence, reported on the schedules that carry penalties whether or not tax is owed.
See the fee schedule

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

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.
See the fee schedule

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Employer registration and withholding for staff on assignment, arranged before the first pay run rather than corrected after it.
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

Cross-border estates and trusts, from the reporting on the assets to the returns the beneficiaries then have to file.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — every engagement, one list, no ranges hiding surprises.

Why this region has its own page

Client data is held under access controls with retention limits, and the same standards apply whether the client is in Toronto or Dubai.

It matters because it changes what the first conversation is about. Not "what do you earn" but "when did you move, what did you keep, and who has already deducted tax from it".

The reason this is written down is that most of what goes wrong in cross-border work is procedural rather than technical. A missed authorisation, a document sent the wrong way or a scope nobody agreed accounts for more lost value than any misapplied rule.

What Data security & privacy clients ask about most is not the fee but the authorisations: what they are signing, what it lets us see, and how to revoke it. All three are answered before anything is signed.

How we handle it

  1. 1We start with the chronology: dates, countries, and what has already been filed
  2. 2You get the scope and the fee in writing before we touch anything
  3. 3The work is prepared and reviewed by a named person, not a queue
  4. 4Nothing is filed until you have read it

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$166,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 21% on it and the home country would charge 39% on the same amount.

Credit relief on one stream of income
ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$166,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 21%)C$34,860
Home tax on the same income (assumed 39%)C$64,740
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$34,860
Home tax still payableC$29,880

The credit absorbs C$34,860 and leaves C$29,880 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. We run this on your actual numbers before advising anything, because the conclusion can invert with a modest change in inputs.

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 you can hold us to

  • We will tell you when you do not need us, and that call is free.
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.
  • Every statutory figure in your file is verified for your own year at source.

Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file; we take the cross-border piece, with the boundary in writing. Offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE

How to get this moving

If you already have an adviser, we will tell you what they should be asking rather than replacing them.

Reviewed for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. Published as general information. For a position on your own file, call the 24-hour helpline.

Where international tax accountant comes into this file

People reach this page searching for international tax accountant. It is covered here as it applies to data security & privacy — who it applies to, what has to be filed, and what it costs, at a fixed fee agreed before the work starts.

Client data is held under access controls with retention limits, and the same standards apply whether the client is in Toronto or Dubai.

How the engagement runs, phase by phase

  1. Upload the file as it stands

    A secure link arrives after the first call. Incomplete is fine; that is what the review is for.

  2. The number is settled up front

    Priced from your own documents and confirmed in writing before any preparation begins.

  3. Both returns on one desk

    One engagement covers every country the file touches, reconciled line against line.

  4. Your approval, then the filing

    The return is yours to check first. We file once you say so.

What you are actually buying with data security & privacy

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

Tested party
The entity whose margin is measured in a transfer-pricing analysis, normally the less complex of the two parties to the transaction.
Customs valuation
The rules determining the value on which duty is assessed, related to but distinct from transfer-pricing rules on the same price.
Factual resident
Someone resident in Canada because their ties are here in fact: a home available for their use, a spouse or dependants in Canada, and the economic and social connections that go with living somewhere.
Lower deduction certificate
An Indian certificate authorising deduction at a reduced rate, applied for before the payment and the practical answer to a deduction computed on gross consideration.
data security & privacy: Our analysis

Client data is held under access controls with retention limits, and the same standards apply whether the client is in Toronto or Dubai.

Whichever way the facts cut, you keep the same footing: a fee agreed in writing beforehand, a named practitioner reviewing the file, and nothing filed until the work is delivered and approved.

Data security & privacy — what the published fees look like

Where privacy does show up in the price is the fetching. Records you already hold are simply read; records that must be requested from a bank, an employer or a foreign authority need an authorisation for each one, and that collection is scoped and quoted before it starts rather than billed as it goes.

Corporate cross-border filing

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: Corporate compliance for a group that trades or holds assets in more than one country, prepared on both sides together.

See this fee page

Foreign asset & information reporting

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Accounts, property and company interests held outside the country of residence, reported on the schedules that carry penalties whether or not tax is owed.

See this fee page

Why clients bring data security & privacy to us

Every figure on a page is traceable

Where a rate or a threshold appears in our writing it names the tax year it belongs to. Where it could not be confirmed, the page describes the mechanism and quotes no number.

4 global offices

Meet us in person in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE, or send everything through the secure portal — the same process either way.

The fee is fixed before we start

Quoted from your documents and agreed in writing. The number you accept is the number you pay.

Residence is tested, not assumed

Where you are resident for treaty purposes is a question with a method. We work through it and write down the answer, with the facts it rests on.

Two of the firm’s advisers at a desk in the Delhi office

From first call to filed return

Step 1

Initial call

We start with the chronology: dates, countries, and what has already been filed

Step 2

Scope and fee

You get the scope and the fee in writing before we touch anything

Step 3

Preparation and review

The work is prepared and reviewed by a named person, not a queue

Step 4

Filing and payment

Nothing is filed until you have read it

Two of the firm’s advisers at the glass desk in the Delhi office

A fixed quote first, in writing

  • Step 1: Documents first, questions second – We read the file before asking anything, so the questions we do ask are the ones that matter.
  • Step 2: A quote you can hold us to – Fixed in writing against a defined scope. No hourly meter, and no revision after the fact.
  • Step 3: The order of filing decided deliberately – Which return goes first can decide whether relief is available at all. That is planned, not discovered.
  • Step 4: Nothing filed without your sign-off – You see the completed work, ask what you need to, and approve it before submission.

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

Payroll for a foreign employee in Canada Its own page: payroll for a foreign employee in Canada — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Am I an NRI? — the 182 / 60+365 day tests Everything on am I an NRI? — the 182 / 60+365 day tests, at the same depth as this page.
Form 8288-A — FIRPTA statement Form 8288-a FIRPTA statement — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Registering for a US EIN & state nexus The full guide to registering for a US EIN state nexus, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Form 706-NA — non-resident estate return Its own page: form 706-na non resident estate return — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
FC-GPR & FC-TRS — inbound investment (India) Everything on fc-gpr & fc-trs India, at the same depth as this page.
Hiring a contractor abroad — global payroll tax compliance Global payroll tax compliance — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Payroll for a Canadian employee abroad The full guide to payroll for a Canadian employee abroad, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Form T5013 — partnership information return Its own page: t5013 partnership information return — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

Who we help

Media & production companies cross-border tax Its own page: media & production companies cross border tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Tax for architects Everything on architects tax, at the same depth as this page.
Airline pilots — what we charge Airline pilots what we charge — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Influencers & content creators — your filing calendar The full guide to influencers & content creators your filing calendar, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for cabin crew Its own page: cabin crew tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Team-sport athletes — relief you're probably missing Everything on team-sport athletes relief you're probably missing, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for day traders Day traders tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Non-resident landlords — relief you're probably missing The full guide to non-resident landlords relief you're probably missing, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Crypto traders — what you owe in each country Its own page: crypto traders what you owe in each country — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

The corridors we work every week

Buying or selling property in Saudi Arabia Its own page: buying or selling property in Saudi Arabia — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Retiring in Australia — pensions & withholding Everything on retiring in Australia, at the same depth as this page.
Buying or selling property in Portugal Buying or selling property in Portugal — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
US–United Kingdom tax corridor The full guide to US United Kingdom tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Buying or selling property in Switzerland Its own page: buying or selling property in Switzerland — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Buying or selling property in India Everything on buying or selling property in India, at the same depth as this page.
Working remotely from Spain Working remotely from Spain — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Working remotely from India The full guide to working remotely from India, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Moving to Italy — the tax year you leave Its own page: moving to Italy — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

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

Cross-border situations we are engaged for

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

Coming Back to Canada After Years Abroad

Returning restarts Canadian residence and re-values what you own on the day you arrive. Foreign pensions, employer plans and accounts opened abroad each land differently, and the reporting thresholds are tested against the whole portfolio rather than each account.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

An IRS Notice for a Year the Client Believed Was Settled

Most notices are proposals rather than assessments, and they carry a response window that is shorter than it looks. The engagement reads what is actually being proposed, gathers the support, and replies inside the window with the position rather than a request for time.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

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 5

Never Filed a US Return — and Only Just Found Out

Born in the United States, left as an infant, and told by a bank that the returns were owed all along. The work is sequencing: establish which years are actually open, choose the catch-up route on the facts rather than filing quietly, and claim the exclusions and credits that were never taken.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

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 7

First Canadian Return After Arriving Mid-Year

The arrival date splits the year and sets the cost base of what you brought with you. Getting that date and those values right is what determines whether a later sale is taxed on the whole gain or only on the part that accrued after landing.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

Catching 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 runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

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

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

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

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

Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

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

Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

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

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

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

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

Data security & privacy — how we work — questions we are asked

Do I need to come to your office?

No, though you are welcome to: we have offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE. Documents move through a secure portal, and meetings can be in person or by video, arranged around your time zone. Clients in the Gulf, India, Europe and across North America all work with us the same way.

Does it matter which of your offices handles my file?

No. The same named reviewer signs off, the same authorisation is filed with the tax authorities, and the same fixed fee is agreed in writing before any work starts.

Which country do I pay tax to first?

Generally the source country — where the income arises — taxes first, often by withholding before you receive it. Your country of residence then taxes the same income and credits what the source country took. That order is why timing matters: a residence-country return filed before the source-country tax is settled has nothing to credit yet. Getting the sequence right is most of the work. See international tax planning.

Do American citizens living abroad have to pay taxes?

American expats and green card holders need to file US returns for life, and many of them pay little or no US tax once the relief is applied — but the filing is what unlocks the relief, so the two questions have different answers. The exclusion for foreign earned income, the credit for foreign tax already paid and the treaty between the two countries between them usually leave the total at roughly the higher of the two countries' tax rather than the sum. Skip the return and none of it applies. See Americans abroad.

Do you handle the other country too?

For Canada, the United States and India, yes — that is the whole point of a corridor desk. For a fourth country we coordinate with a local adviser and keep ownership of the interaction between the two systems.

Is there a minimum engagement?

No, but there is a minimum that makes sense: below a certain scope the honest answer is often that you can handle it yourself, and we will say so.

15+ years of cross-border experience

Ready to deal with your cross-border filing?

One short call, one fixed quote in writing, and your approval before anything is filed.

  • Re-quoted, never silently invoiced
  • 18,000+ clients served
  • 24-hour helpline, +1 (416) 619-0068

Our practitioners are alumni of leading accounting and tax institutions

Where our partners studied — CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), AICPA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

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