Which currency are your fees in?
US dollars (USD), for every service and every country. The amount is fixed in the quote in US dollars rather than converted later at whatever rate applies on the invoice date.
Which payment methods do you accept?
The methods available to you are confirmed on the call before you engage and are listed on the invoice. Because clients pay from a dozen countries, the practical route varies with where the money is coming from, and it is worth settling that at the start rather than at the end.
Do you charge extra for an international payment?
No. Nothing is added to the fee for the payment method or for the country the money comes from. What your own bank charges for the transfer is between you and your bank, and it is worth checking before you choose how to send it.
Does paying in a foreign currency change the fixed fee that was quoted?
No — the fee is set in the currency it was quoted in, and how that amount is actually transferred does not change the figure itself; any conversion happens on the client's side of the transaction, between the client and their own bank or payment provider.
Which payment methods are available for clients paying from outside Canada?
Card payment, wire transfer and a local transfer service are all available, and which one suits a given client usually comes down to what their own bank supports and what fees their bank charges for each option, rather than any restriction on this end.
Who bears the cost of a currency conversion or an intermediary bank's fee?
That is a matter between the client and their own bank or payment provider, since it is their institution doing the converting or the intermediary handling — the quoted fee itself is unaffected by whatever the client's bank charges to move the funds.
Does the payment method affect how quickly a return can be prepared once a quote is agreed?
Not directly — the work proceeds once the engagement is set up, and the choice of payment method is a separate, practical question resolved alongside it rather than something that changes the scope or the fee itself.
Do I have to declare my dual citizenship?
A tax return does not generally ask you to declare which passports you hold; it asks about residence, and in the US case it applies to citizens by definition. What does ask is your bank. Account-opening self-certification under FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard asks which countries you are a tax resident or citizen of, and the answer is reported onward to the tax authority. So the practical answer is that the information arrives either way. See FATCA reporting.
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.
