Affordable Crypto on emigration from Canada

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Crypto is inside the departure-day deemed disposition, and unlike a listed share it has no unambiguous closing price — so valuation evidence is the whole exposure. Affordable crypto on emigration from Canada with a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts. Call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068, or request a written quote today.

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The short answer

Crypto is inside the departure-day deemed disposition, and unlike a listed share it has no unambiguous closing price — so valuation evidence is the whole exposure. The deemed disposition applies to capital property held on departure, and the reporting of properties owned on that day includes it.

Do you need this?

  • A departure or arrival happened with positions open
  • You hold crypto with a platform outside your country
  • You have moved country while holding crypto
  • Activity has grown from occasional to frequent
  • You have staking, yield or NFT income you have not characterised

If more than one of those is true, this is your page. If none of them is, tell us on a call and we will point you at the right one — that happens often enough that we would rather you asked.

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Transparent, fixed pricing for crypto on emigration from Canada

What sets the fee for crypto on emigration from Canada is the valuation work: how many exchanges and wallets held a balance on the departure day, and whether the price evidence can be exported cleanly or has to be rebuilt from trade history. Both are quoted as a fixed fee in writing first.

Departure (emigration) return — fixed-fee price

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The departure-year return with the deemed disposition computed, the property listing filed, and any election to defer payment against security prepared alongside.
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T1135 foreign property filing — fixed-fee price

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The Canadian foreign property statement built on cost amount, in Canadian dollars, across everything the test reaches — including holdings people assume are excluded.
See the full fee page

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

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

One engagement for a personal return that touches more than one country: the income, the assets held abroad and the relief claimed against them.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Disclosure of assets and interests held abroad, built once from a single asset list and filed on every side that asks for it.
See the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Corporate compliance for a group that trades or holds assets in more than one country, prepared on both sides together.
See the fee schedule

Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

For a filing history that stopped — the penalty position assessed first, then the years filed in the order that protects it.
See the fee schedule

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Benchmarking and documentation for related-party dealings, prepared to the standard the reviewing authority applies.
See the fee schedule

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

Why the answer comes out the way it does

Crypto is inside the departure-day deemed disposition, and unlike a listed share it has no unambiguous closing price — so valuation evidence is the whole exposure.

The deemed disposition applies to capital property held on departure, and the reporting of properties owned on that day includes it. Documenting the source, exchange and time of the valuation used is what makes the figure defensible later.

Put the other way round: the return is the last step, not the work. What decides crypto on emigration from Canada is the set of facts in place when the year closes, and those facts are the part a client can still influence when they come to us early enough.

The standard here is simple: no figure without a source for your year. Anything that cannot meet it is written as a mechanism, so you can see exactly what the rule does even where the number has to be confirmed before filing. See also safe harbour rules (India) and cost-sharing between group companies.

What we actually file

  • A reconstructed and reconciled transaction history
  • Income computations for staking, yield and airdrop receipts
  • Loss claims supported by contemporaneous evidence of the event
  • Corporate holdings reconciled to the accounting basis adopted
  • Foreign property and foreign account reporting that reaches platform holdings

A worked example

The same point, with figures rather than adjectives.

A deemed disposition on the day residency ends

A portfolio bought for C$125,000 is worth C$263,750 on the departure day. Nothing is sold. Assume half the gain enters income and assume a 44% marginal rate on it.

ItemAmount
Cost of the propertyC$125,000
Value on the departure dayC$263,750
Accrued gain treated as realisedC$138,750
Amount assumed to enter incomeC$69,375
Tax at an assumed 44%C$30,525

C$30,525 becomes payable in a year with no sale and no cash. That is what makes the departure date a planning variable: losses realised before it, an election to defer payment against security, and defensible valuations for anything private all change this number. That is an illustration of the mechanism, not a prediction about your file — the same computation on your figures is the first thing we do.

An illustration, not a client file. The sums are chosen for legibility and the thresholds are stated for the example alone — nothing reaches a filing until it has been confirmed at source for your own year.

How the engagement runs

  1. 1A call to our 24-hour helpline to establish the facts and the dates that matter
  2. 2A written scope and a fixed fee before any work starts
  3. 3Preparation, then a named reviewer's sign-off before anything is filed
  4. 4Filing, then payment — after you have seen and approved the result

What you pay, and when

The commercial part is deliberately boring. One fixed fee for a written scope, agreed up front in writing — which is what lets us tell you honestly when crypto on emigration from Canada is smaller than you feared. Comparable engagements and their fixed fees are set out on the pricing pages.

  • We will tell you when you do not need us, and that call is free.
  • Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file; we take the cross-border piece, with the boundary in writing.
  • Documents move through an access-controlled portal rather than email.

Your next step

Ask before the move rather than after it, because most of the useful options expire on the date. Send whatever you have — even an incomplete set. Most of the first hour of a crypto on emigration from Canada engagement is working out which documents actually matter, and that is quicker with a partial pack than with none.

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.

Business tax advisory — what this page covers

If you came here for business tax advisory, this is where it is dealt with. The subject is crypto on emigration from Canada, and the page covers who it reaches, what then has to be filed, and what we charge to do the work.

Crypto is inside the departure-day deemed disposition, and unlike a listed share it has no unambiguous closing price — so valuation evidence is the whole exposure.

The four phases of the work

  1. Tell us the dates and we will tell you the position

    Arrival, departure, the years in between — the residence question turns on those before anything else.

  2. Fixed fee, defined scope, in writing

    Both agreed before work starts, so the engagement cannot grow into a larger bill.

  3. Prepared together, not passed between firms

    You are not the go-between for two sets of advisers working from two sets of assumptions.

  4. Reviewed, approved, filed

    A named practitioner checks it, you approve it, and then it goes.

How crypto on emigration from Canada is handled here

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

Place of effective management
The place where key management and commercial decisions are in substance made, which can make a foreign-incorporated company resident in another country.
Chapter 3 withholding
The US regime for withholding on US-source payments to foreign persons, operated through foreign-status certificates and recipient statements.
Specified foreign property
The class of property reportable on Canada's foreign property statement. Property held inside Canadian registered plans and some other holdings are treated differently.
Source income
Income treated as arising in a particular country by that country's sourcing rules. Sourcing decides who taxes first and therefore who gives credit.
crypto on emigration from Canada: How we read this one

The deemed disposition applies to capital property held on departure, and the reporting of properties owned on that day includes it.

None of what follows shifts the terms. Scope and fee are settled in writing before anything is prepared, the result carries a named reviewer, and nothing is filed unseen.

Fixed fees around crypto on emigration from Canada

The second thing that moves it is scope beyond the coins. A departure-day position sitting alongside other property that must be scheduled, or a year already filed on a different basis and needing correction, is a wider engagement than a single valuation memo. Ring +1 (416) 619-0068 and describe the holdings.

Departure (emigration) return

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The departure-year return with the deemed disposition computed, the property listing filed, and any election to defer payment against security prepared alongside.

What makes it bigger: Private holdings. A listed portfolio values itself; private company shares, foreign real estate and crypto need defensible valuations as at the departure day.

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T1135 foreign property filing

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The Canadian foreign property statement built on cost amount, in Canadian dollars, across everything the test reaches — including holdings people assume are excluded.

What makes it bigger: Missing acquisition records. The statement is tested on cost, so a holding bought fifteen years ago in another currency has to be reconstructed before it can be reported.

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Section 116 clearance certificate

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The clearance application on a disposition of taxable Canadian property, with the cost-base evidence assembled, and the notification filed inside its own clock from closing.

What makes it bigger: Depreciable property. A rental building brings recapture into the computation and usually a different application route from a plain capital property.

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Why choose Legal Quotient for crypto on emigration from Canada

The order of filing is planned, not improvised

Which return goes first decides whether relief can be claimed at all. That sequence is worked out before anything is submitted.

The fee is fixed before we start

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

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.

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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Crypto on emigration from Canada — the four phases

Step 1

The opening call

A first call to map the obligations across every country involved

Step 2

Scope in writing

A single fixed fee covering the whole set, agreed before we begin

Step 3

Prepared and checked

Preparation in the order that makes the relief usable, with a reviewer's sign-off

Step 4

Filed, then supported

You approve the finished work, and we file it

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From first document to filed return

  • Step 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.
  • Step 2: The number is settled up front – Priced from your own documents and confirmed in writing before any preparation begins.
  • Step 3: Both returns on one desk – One engagement covers every country the file touches, reconciled line against line.
  • Step 4: Your approval, then the filing – The return is yours to check first. We file once you say so.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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More of the same work, from other angles

Browse sideways: the pages below answer the neighbouring questions.

Services these clients use most

Form 1118 — foreign tax credit (corporate) Its own page: form 1118 corporate foreign tax credit — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Form 3CEAB — master file intimation (India) Everything on form 3ceab India, at the same depth as this page.
State returns — for a nonresident alien Nonresident alien state tax return — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form T1145 / T1146 — transfer pricing agreements The full guide to t1145 t1146 transfer pricing agreements, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Startup tax exemptions and angel tax Its own page: startup tax exemptions and angel tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Treaty residency tie-breaker (Article IV) Everything on treaty residency tie-breaker article iv, at the same depth as this page.
Form 2553 — S-corporation election Form 2553 s corporation election — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form 26Q — TDS on resident payments (India) The full guide to form 26q India, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Pre-immigration tax planning Its own page: pre-immigration tax planning — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

Who we help

Tax for non-resident landlords Its own page: non-resident landlords tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Non-resident landlords — your filing calendar Everything on non-resident landlords your filing calendar, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for lawyers & in-house counsel Lawyers & in-house counsel tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Influencers & content creators — what you owe in each country The full guide to influencers & content creators what you owe in each country, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Touring musicians — what we charge Its own page: touring musicians what we charge — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Day traders — what we charge Everything on day traders what we charge, at the same depth as this page.
Non-resident landlords — relief you're probably missing Non-resident landlords relief you're probably missing — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Investment funds cross-border tax The full guide to investment funds cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Technology & SaaS — relief you're probably missing Its own page: technology & saas relief you're probably missing — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

Where our clients live and work

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Belgium tax for expats — country guide Belgium tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
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Saudi Arabia tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Saudi Arabia tax for expats — 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

What these engagements turn on

Case study 1

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.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

Putting a Foreign Hire on a Canadian Payroll

The obligation sits on the payer, and the payer is liable for what it failed to withhold. Registration, the residence question and any treaty exemption are settled before the first pay run rather than after.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

A Secondment Whose Paperwork Decided the Tax

Who employs, who directs and who bears the cost are the facts a treaty article turns on, and an assignment letter is where they are recorded. Drafting it with the tax position in view prevents an argument later.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

A TFSA That Costs More Than It Saves

Canadian tax-free accounts are not tax-free to a US person, and some of them carry a reporting form of their own. The file is a review of what is held, what each account triggers on the US side, and whether the account is worth keeping once the reporting is priced in.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

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 6

Selling Into the US Without an Entity, and Filing in Several States

State obligations are set by each state, and a treaty does not reach them. The review measures activity against each state's own thresholds and separates the states where registration is required from the ones where it is not.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

A US Filer Married to Someone Outside the System

Electing to treat a non-resident spouse as a US filer buys joint rates and brings that spouse's worldwide income and foreign accounts into the return. The election is easy to make and hard to revoke, so both positions are modelled first.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

A Foreign Subsidiary That Nobody Had Been Reporting

Owning a company abroad triggers an information return separate from the corporate return, with its own penalty. The work is the surplus and income computations behind it, which also determine how a future dividend is taxed on the way home.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

How and where the work is delivered

Every link below is a full page of its own — the same depth as this one, for its own subject.

Where the work is delivered

More coverage detail

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

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

Treaty residency & tie-breaker
FATCA reporting (Form 8938)
Foreign tax credit (Form 1116)
Multi-country filing calendar
Real estate holding structures
International tax planning
Pre-immigration tax planning
Family office structures
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

Form 1040 from abroad
US state non-resident returns
FBAR (FinCEN 114) filing
Form 5472 — foreign-owned US corp
FIRPTA withholding (Form 8288)
US estate tax exposure
IRS streamlined foreign offshore
PFIC reporting (Form 8621)
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

Departure tax leaving Canada
T1161 properties on emigration
Residency planning
Step-up in cost base on arrival
Split-year residency
Employment income under a treaty
Social security totalization
Returning to Canada after years abroad
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

Section 216 rental return
NR4 & NR6 withholding
Section 217 pension return
Section 116 clearance certificate
Regulation 105 waiver
Non-resident employment income
Taxable Canadian property
Part XIII withholding review
Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

s.247 contemporaneous documentation
Functional & risk analysis
Benchmarking study
Intercompany agreements
Country-by-country report
BEPS & Pillar Two
Permanent establishment risk
TP audit defence file
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

Cross-border wills
US estate tax for non-resident aliens
Terminal return & clearance certificate
Non-resident trusts (s.94)
T1141 & T1142 trust reporting
Inheriting property abroad
Graduated rate estates
Post-mortem planning & pipeline
Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

Entity selection across borders
Business profits & PE
Intercompany loans & thin cap
Paying dividends to a foreign parent
Global mobility & day tracking
Debt vs equity funding
Branch or subsidiary
Cross-border M&A due diligence
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

NRI residency day tests
NRE, NRO & FCNR accounts
TDS on property (s.195)
Lower or nil TDS certificate
Repatriating sale proceeds
Capital gains on Indian shares
India–Canada DTAA
ITR-2 for NRIs
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

T1135 foreign property
T1134 foreign affiliates
Departure tax
Newcomer's first return
Returning to Canada
Split-year residency
US citizens in Canada
Canada–US corridor
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

Expat tax in the UAE
Moving to the UAE
Moving back from the UAE
UAE property purchases
Retiring in the UAE
Canada–UAE corridor
India–UAE DTAA
US–UAE corridor
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

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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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Professional Services Firms

Firms and partners working across borders meet Regulation 105 withholding, PE risk on long engagements and per-country payroll for travelling staff.

A partnership is taxed in the hands of its partners, so one engagement abroad can reach every partner's personal return. The order matters: the waiver is applied for before the invoice, the presence is tracked before it becomes an establishment, and the payroll is registered before the first day worked in the other country.

  • Reg 105 / 102 waivers
  • Permanent establishment risk
  • Partner mobility planning
  • Cross-border withholding recovery
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Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

  • 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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Crypto on emigration from Canada — questions we are asked

Crypto on emigration from Canada — do I need an adviser, or can I do it alone?

Some of it, yes — and we will say so on the call if that is the honest answer. The parts that are worth paying for are the ones where a missed election, a missed deadline or an unverified threshold costs more than the fee: the deemed disposition applies to capital property held on departure, and the reporting of properties owned on that day includes it.

What if I have already filed and got it wrong?

That is a common starting point. We re-derive the position, identify whether an amendment or a disclosure route is the right vehicle, and tell you which one preserves the relief that is still available. The order matters more than the speed.

How long will it take?

It depends on the documents rather than on us. Once the pack is complete most filings turn around inside a fortnight; anything that needs a certificate from a tax authority runs on that authority's timetable, which we tell you at the start rather than at the end.

Do I pay Canadian tax if I live abroad?

Only if you remain a Canadian tax resident. Residency follows your ties rather than your address, so leaving while your home and family stay usually does not end it. Non-residents remain taxable on Canadian-source income — employment or business income earned in Canada, dispositions of taxable Canadian property, and passive amounts subject to withholding. The year you leave is its own exercise, with a deemed disposition and its own schedules. See leaving Canada.

When does my Canadian tax residency actually end?

On the day your residential ties are severed, which is a question of fact rather than of the date on the boarding pass. The CRA weighs the significant ties first — a dwelling available to you, a spouse or common-law partner, and dependants in Canada — then secondary ties such as licences, memberships, accounts and provincial coverage. Keeping a home available while your family stays is the pattern that most often means residency never ended at all. See departure tax on leaving Canada.

What is departure tax in Canada?

When you cease Canadian residency you are treated as having disposed of most capital property at fair market value on your departure date, and the accrued gain becomes taxable in that year even though nothing was sold. Some property is excluded, notably Canadian real property, and an election can defer the payment with security. The departure-year return carries its own schedules listing what you owned. Our departure tax estimator sizes it.

Do you charge for the first meeting?

No. The helpline is open 24 hours a day and the first call is free, and if the conclusion is that there is no work to do we tell you that on the call.

Do you work with businesses as well as individuals?

Both, and frequently the same client in both capacities — a founder's personal position and their company's are separate questions that have to be answered together.

Tax terms explained

GST/HSTTreaty overridePlace of effective managementCessation of residenceTested partyTax protectionFC-GPRInterquartile rangePermanent establishmentRestricted share unitNon-resident trustTotalization agreementReasonable causeProfit attribution Browse the full A–Z glossary

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