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.
Indirect tax, crypto and advisory
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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Sales tax, GST/HST and VAT 15
- GST/HST registration for foreign businesses
- Simplified vs normal GST/HST registration
- Digital services & the marketplace rules
- US sales tax nexus for foreign sellers
- Economic nexus thresholds by state
- Marketplace facilitator rules
- Importing into Canada — GST & duty
- Importing into the US — duty & MPF
- EU VAT for Canadian sellers
- UK VAT registration
- Indian GST for foreign suppliers
- OIDAR services in India
- Customs valuation vs transfer price
- Drop-shipping tax exposure
- Recovering foreign VAT
Structures, funding and holding companies 13
- Entity selection across borders
- Hybrid entities & mismatches
- Debt vs equity funding
- Surplus & FAPI computations
- Foreign affiliate reorganisations
- Repatriation planning
- Exit strategy for founders
- IP holding & substance
- Substance requirements in practice
- Economic substance in the Gulf
- GIFT City & IFSC structures
- Second opinion on an existing structure
- Board & governance for foreign entities
Crypto and digital assets 12
- Crypto held on foreign exchanges
- Reporting crypto on T1135
- Crypto and the FBAR question
- Crypto trading vs investing
- Staking & yield income
- NFTs across borders
- Mining income & PE risk
- Crypto on emigration from Canada
- Crypto tax in India
- Moving crypto to a low-tax country
- Lost or stolen crypto claims
- Crypto for corporations
Arriving, leaving and giving up status 11
- Pre-immigration tax planning
- Trusts before becoming a resident
- Step-up in cost base on arrival
- Tax on permanent residency
- Tax when citizenship is granted
- Investor & start-up visa tax
- Study permit holders
- Work permit holders
- Expatriation tax (US s.877A)
- Covered expatriate testing
- Giving up a green card
Planning, calendars and risk reviews 5
Other advisory topics 4
- 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
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.
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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Payments abroad carry deduction at source and a certification filed before the money moves. Whether the treaty reduces the rate depends on what is being bought, and the classification is the decision the whole filing rests on.
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Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.
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- Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
- Marketplace withholding reviews
- Inventory nexus & PE analysis
- Multi-currency books reconciled
- Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
- IP structuring with real substance
- Equity for cross-border teams
- U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
- Reg 105 / 102 waivers
- Permanent establishment risk
- Partner mobility planning
- Cross-border withholding recovery
- Section 216 rental returns
- FIRPTA withholding recovery
- Section 116 clearance
- Treaty credit optimization
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
- Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
- Multi-state & country calendars
- Touring income allocation
- Royalty & image-rights withholding
- Residency analysis before moving
- Employer payroll exposure
- Totalization & social security
- Foreign tax credits
- Treaty access & PPT reviews
- FAPI & surplus computations
- Withholding-efficient routing
- Governance & substance



