Indirect tax, crypto and advisory

Sales tax, VAT, digital supplies, crypto, immigration planning and structure reviews.

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60 pages in this section. Sales tax, VAT, digital supplies, crypto, immigration planning and structure reviews.

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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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  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.
  • Nothing is filed until you have read it.
  • A named reviewer signs off every statutory filing.

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

Common questions about this section

What does the Indirect tax, crypto and advisory section cover?

60 pages. Sales tax, VAT, digital supplies, crypto, immigration planning and structure reviews. 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.

How are fees set for indirect tax, crypto and advisory?

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.

Who checks the work before it 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.

How do I get a quote for indirect tax, crypto and advisory?

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.

Why are crypto and sales tax grouped in the same advisory section?

Both are areas where the underlying rules are still catching up with how the transactions actually happen, so they need the same kind of case-by-case advisory review rather than a standard form-filing process — that shared character is what groups them here rather than a shared subject matter.

Is this advisory section only for businesses, or also for individuals?

Both — an individual holding crypto on a foreign exchange and a business registering for sales tax in several states raise different questions but sit in the same advisory category, since neither is a routine annual filing.

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We scope it on a call, quote it in writing, and you see the result before anything is filed.

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Why choose Legal Quotient for indirect tax, crypto and advisory

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.

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.

We say early if it is not our work

If a file needs something this practice does not do, you hear that at the start rather than after a bill.

18,000+ clients served

Individuals, expats and corporations across India, the USA, Canada and the UAE have filed with us — 15+ years of cross-border work.

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

How the work runs — quote first, then the work

  • Step 1: Send what you already have – Slips, statements, prior returns — in any order. We list what is still needed after reading them.
  • Step 2: A fee agreed in writing – Quoted from those documents, before the work starts, and it does not move once you accept it.
  • Step 3: Each side drafted against the other – The returns are built together rather than in sequence, so relief is claimed once and in the right country.
  • Step 4: You approve before it is filed – The finished return comes to you first. Nothing is submitted on your behalf unseen.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Files that look like this one

Case study 1

A digital seller who discovered registration was already overdue

The client sold subscriptions to consumers in several countries and had registered nowhere, on the understanding that having no premises abroad settled the question. It did not. The work was a supply-by-supply review: what was being sold, whether each customer was a business or a consumer, and what evidence existed of where they were. Two jurisdictions turned out to require registration and the rest did not. The engagement produced backdated registrations where they were needed, a corrected invoicing template, and a filing calendar the client now runs from, with the remaining jurisdictions documented as reviewed rather than simply ignored.

Case study 2

Crypto records rebuilt from exchange exports and wallet history

The client had traded across several exchanges and two wallets, and had reported only the transactions that ended in cash. Swaps into other assets had not been treated as disposals at all. The work was reconstruction before it was tax: matching transfers between the client's own accounts so they were not counted as sales, pricing each disposal at the time it occurred, and carrying acquisition cost through a chain of swaps. The engagement produced a disposal schedule that ties back to the underlying records, amended years where the position changed, and a method the client can repeat unaided.

Case study 3

A structure reviewed before a move rather than after

The client planned to emigrate within the year and held an operating company and a portfolio. The question put to us was which entity to move assets into; answering it required looking first at what moving anything would trigger on the way out, and what holding it would trigger annually once they were resident elsewhere. Two of the three options created a reporting obligation in the destination country that nobody had mentioned. The engagement produced a written comparison of the routes with the filings each one creates, and a decision recorded together with its reasons.

Case study 4

A departure file built around one valuation date

The client had already left when they called, and the file turned on establishing exactly when. Employment records, the date the lease ended and where the family went settled it. From there the work was an inventory of everything held on that day, valued as at it, split between property caught by the deemed disposition and property taxed only on an eventual sale. The engagement produced a departure return with a schedule of values that will be needed again years from now, and a note of which elections were made and the reasoning behind each.

Case study 5

A sales tax risk review across a group of companies

A group had grown by acquisition and each company filed its indirect tax returns on whatever basis it had inherited. Nobody had looked across them. The review compared how the same transaction types were treated in each company, which is where the exposure sat: intercompany charges handled three different ways, and one entity claiming credits on costs that belonged to another. The engagement produced a written risk register ranked by exposure, corrections filed where they were needed, and one agreed treatment adopted across the group for the transactions that had been inconsistent.

Case study 6

A filing calendar built for a family with obligations abroad

The family held interests in three countries and had been missing deadlines, not through avoidance but because nobody held a list. The work was unglamorous: establishing every return, election and information report each person and entity owed, in which country, with the lead time the records behind it need. Where an obligation had already been missed it was dealt with before being added to the calendar. The engagement produced a single dated schedule covering the whole family, with the documents each item depends on listed beside it, reviewed once a year.

Case study 7

Fifteen Per Cent Held Back From a Fee for Services in Canada

A payer must withhold from fees paid to a non-resident for services rendered in Canada, whether or not any tax is ultimately owed. A waiver applied for before the work is invoiced avoids the withholding; after it, the money comes back through a return.

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Case study 8

An Indian Company Paying a Foreign Supplier

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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
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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
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Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

Related-party purchasing, customs value versus transfer price, and foreign-affiliate structures put trading businesses inside the s.247 documentation rules.

Goods crossing a border move the tax question from income to indirect: registration thresholds, place of supply, the customs value and the transfer price between related entities all have to agree with each other. When they do not, the adjustment arrives from two authorities at once and each one uses the other's number.

  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
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Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
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Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
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Investment Funds & Holding Companies
  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
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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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