Every job we price: fixed-fee cross-border tax pricing, agreed in writing before work starts.
44 pages in this section. Every job we price: fixed-fee cross-border tax pricing, agreed in writing before work starts.
Every page in this section is written to the same standard: it opens with the block that exists nowhere else on the site — a threshold, a treaty article, a rule that applies to one group and not the one beside it — and it carries one worked example, worked through in full rather than a set of generalities.
Where a page needs a statutory threshold, a rate or a day-count, that figure is verified against the issuing authority before it ships. Where it cannot be verified for the year in question, the page states the mechanism and quotes no number, because a wrong threshold on a page like this is worse than no page at all. Every statutory page also carries the name of the person who reviewed it and the date they did.
Fees are fixed and agreed in writing before any work begins, and you review the finished work before it is filed. Documents move through a secure portal and you can meet us at any of our offices, so where you are makes no difference to how it works.
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Reviewed for accuracy 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.
This is the page to read on how much is income tax in US. It takes all fixed-fee cross-border tax pricing in order — the test that decides who is affected, the returns and forms that follow from it, and a fee quoted in writing before anything starts.
44 pages. Every job we price: fixed-fee cross-border tax pricing, agreed in writing before work starts. Each one opens with the part that applies to that situation and nowhere else — a threshold, a treaty article, a filing that one group owes and the group beside it does not — and works one example through in full.
The fee is fixed and agreed in writing before any work begins, priced from the documents you send rather than estimated afterwards, and it does not move once accepted. You see the finished work and approve it before anything is filed.
A named adviser reviews every return and every information filing before it goes out, and the statutory pages on this site carry the name of the person who reviewed them and the date they did it. You approve the finished work yourself as the last step.
Send what you have — a return, a notice, a set of statements, in whatever state it is in — through the secure portal after the first call, and you get a written fixed fee back. Or call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068 and we will tell you what is needed.
You are not the go-between for two sets of advisers with two sets of assumptions. One engagement covers each country the file touches.
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.
The practitioner who prepared and reviewed your file is the one who answers the question about it.
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.
Quoted up front, in writing.
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Each of these carries its own guide, pricing pointers and FAQ.
A client arrived holding an estimate with a range in it and a list of assumptions, none of which he could test himself. Reading the same file, we found the uncertainty sat in one place: whether two earlier years had been filed at all. We priced that check as a small piece of work on its own, established the answer, and then quoted the rest as a fixed figure with nothing conditional left in it. The engagement produced a fee he could approve rather than a range he had to hope about.
Part way through a personal filing engagement it became clear the client held an interest in a company incorporated elsewhere, which brought a reporting obligation nobody had mentioned at the outset. We stopped, set out what the additional filing involved, and priced it separately before touching it. The client took the original engagement as quoted and deferred the second piece until he had gathered the documents it needed. What the file produced was an accurate written scope at the moment the facts changed, rather than a surprise arriving with the invoice.
A family held rental property, a small company and several personal filings between them, and had been buying each piece from a different adviser. Quoting the work together let us do the underlying reconciliation once and carry it into every return that depended on it. The fee was written as a single engagement with the deliverables listed underneath, so each member could see which part belonged to them. The outcome was one set of figures that all the returns agreed with, approved by the family before any of it started.
A prospective client believed she had years of unfiled obligations behind her and wanted a fee for putting all of them right. We declined to quote the repair before establishing the damage, and priced a review instead. The review found that most of those years had in fact been filed correctly by a previous adviser, and that only one carried an omission. She paid for the review and a single corrected filing rather than the multi-year package she had arrived expecting to buy.
A company's directors could not approve an engagement expressed as one total, because they needed to see which part belonged to which entity in the group. We rewrote the quote as named deliverables with an owner and a due point against each, leaving the total unchanged. The board approved it at the next meeting, and the same breakdown became the progress record for the year. Pricing structure, in that case, was the only thing standing between the work and the authority to do it.
We had priced a reconstruction on the assumption that several years of records were missing, which is the usual position when a client says they have nothing left. The client then produced a complete set of statements from an old account. Because the fee had been written against a described scope, the disappearance of that scope meant a new written figure rather than a windfall for us. The engagement went ahead at the lower quote, and the correspondence on file records exactly why it changed.
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 runsThe 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 runsAll case studies — every published engagement in one place.
Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.
Performance income is taxed where earned — Regulation 105 in Canada, withholding agreements in the U.S. — with special treaty articles overriding the usual rules.
Performance income is taxed where the performance happens, and the deduction is usually taken at source on the gross fee before expenses. Recovering the difference is a filing exercise in the other country, and it only works if the tour, the residency and the withholding certificates were documented while the work was being done.
Where our partners studied — CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), AICPA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
