Budget-friendly Form T106 — non-arm's-length transactions

Form T106 — who files it, when it is due, what late filing costs, and what we charge to prepare it. Canada (CRA). Budget-friendly T106 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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In 60 words

Form T106 is an information return: The information return of non-arm's-length transactions with non-residents — goods, services, royalties, interest, and loans. Canadian corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals whose reportable transactions with related non-residents exceed the filing threshold.

Who has to deal with this

Canadian corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals whose reportable transactions with related non-residents exceed the filing threshold.

The question below is the one that actually determines the outcome. This return is the transfer-pricing risk map the CRA reads first. It asks whether documentation exists, so answering it honestly is often the moment a group discovers its intercompany pricing has never been supported.

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Fixed fees for t106 non arms length transactions, agreed up front

This information return is priced on the shape of the intercompany file: how many related non-residents the Canadian entity deals with, and how many categories of transaction run between them, from goods and services to royalties, interest and loans. Pulling those totals out of a ledger never coded for it is the work. Quoted in writing first.

Transfer pricing — local file — fixed-fee price

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

The local file for one entity: functional analysis, method selection with the alternatives explained, comparables with the search documented, and the results tested against the range.
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T106 information return — fixed-fee price

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The related-party transaction return, reconciled to the corporate return and to the non-resident slips so the three tell one consistent story.
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Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The reporting obligations that attach to owning something abroad, worked out from your holdings rather than from the tax return alone.
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Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Local file, master file and benchmarking for groups trading across borders, documented to the standard the authority expects.
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Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The corporate return and its cross-border schedules as one engagement, so the group files a consistent position everywhere.
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Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Registrations, withholding and the employer obligations that follow staff working across a border, set up once and correctly.
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Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Individual returns where salary, investments or property sit outside the country of residence, prepared so relief is claimed once and in the right place.
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Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Arrival and departure years priced as one engagement, with the part-year residence position and the assets deemed disposed of on exit.
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All published fees on one page — every engagement, one list, no ranges hiding surprises.

What the reporting test actually looks at

What decides whether Form T106 applies
What the test looks atWhere the figure comes from
The obligationThe information return of non-arm's-length transactions with non-residents — goods, services, royalties, interest, and loans.
Who it bindsCanadian corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals whose reportable transactions with related non-residents exceed the filing threshold.
Jurisdiction and authorityCanada — CRA
Category of filingInformation return

When it is due

Information returns are generally due with — or on the same timetable as — the return they accompany, so the deadline is the filing deadline of the underlying return unless the rules set a separate date. Where an extension covers the return, confirm whether it also covers this form; several information returns keep their own date. We work back from that date to the documents, so the pack is requested early enough to be assembled rather than reconstructed.

What late or missed filing costs

The penalty on an information return is charged per form and per year, and it does not depend on tax being owed. That is the whole risk profile: a filer with no tax to pay can still accumulate a substantial liability across unfiled years, and the exposure compounds with each additional entity or account that should have been reported. Where years are already missed, the route chosen for the earliest year affects the relief available for the rest — so the sequence is decided before anything is filed.

The arithmetic, worked through

The arithmetic is more persuasive than the description, so:

A deemed disposition on the day residency ends

A portfolio bought for C$200,000 is worth C$394,000 on the departure day. Nothing is sold. Assume half the gain enters income and assume a 48% marginal rate on it.

A deemed disposition on the day residency ends
ItemAmount
Cost of the propertyC$200,000
Value on the departure dayC$394,000
Accrued gain treated as realisedC$194,000
Amount assumed to enter incomeC$97,000
Tax at an assumed 48%C$46,560

C$46,560 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. The shape of that result holds; the size of it depends entirely on your own numbers and dates.

Example figures throughout, selected to make the rule visible, with rates and thresholds assumed for the demonstration. Your actual filing uses figures confirmed with the issuing authority for your tax year.

How we prepare and file it, and what it costs

The fee for Form T106 is fixed against a written scope and agreed before we start. It is not billed by the hour and it does not move after the fact. See the Canadian snowbird — the substantial presence test for comparable engagements.

How the engagement runs

  1. 1Establish whether the reporting test is met, on the correct measure
  2. 2Assemble the holdings, accounts or entities that fall inside it
  3. 3Prepare the return and reconcile it to the tax return it travels with
  4. 4File, and set the calendar entry so next year is not a catch-up
  • Fixed fees agreed before any work starts, so the number in the quote is the number on the invoice.
  • Consultations scheduled to your working day rather than ours.
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Bring last year's returns and we will tell you what is missing.

Reviewed for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. Written as general guidance, not as a recommendation for your situation. Talk it through with us before acting on it.

Canada tax forms — what this page covers

Most readers of this page are looking for Canada tax forms. What follows sets out how it works for T106: who is caught by it, what has to be filed, and what the work costs, agreed before it begins.

This return is the transfer-pricing risk map the CRA reads first.

How the engagement runs, phase by phase

  1. Send the documents as they are

    No tidying required — forward what you have and we tell you what is missing.

  2. Get a fixed quote in writing

    Priced from your actual documents before any work begins, not estimated after.

  3. Both countries prepared together

    One team builds the filings against each other so the relief lands exactly once.

  4. Review, then file

    You approve the finished work before we file it.

What you are actually buying with t106 non arms length transactions

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

The vocabulary this page leans on

Form 3520
The US return reporting transactions with foreign trusts and the receipt of large foreign gifts and bequests — an obligation missed precisely because the receipt is not income.
FEMA
India's exchange-control law, which defines residence differently from tax law and governs which accounts may be held and how funds may move.
Distance selling
Cross-border sales to consumers, which trigger registration in the destination country once its own test is crossed.
Tax home
The main place of business or employment, used to test whether someone is genuinely based abroad. It is distinct from residence and from domicile.
t106 non arms length transactions: The practitioner's note

This return is the transfer-pricing risk map the CRA reads first.

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 t106 non arms length transactions

The return asks whether contemporaneous transfer-pricing documentation exists, and the honest answer changes the engagement: confirming and referencing a study already in place is narrow, building support for pricing that has never been documented is not. A return already past its due date is quoted with the exposure that goes with it.

T106 information return

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: The related-party transaction return, reconciled to the corporate return and to the non-resident slips so the three tell one consistent story.

What makes it bigger: Inconsistency between the three filings. Where the return, the slips and the schedules disagree, resolving the difference is the engagement rather than the filing.

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Transfer pricing — local file

$2,500fixed, before work starts

Covers: The local file for one entity: functional analysis, method selection with the alternatives explained, comparables with the search documented, and the results tested against the range.

What makes it bigger: The number of transaction types. Goods, services, royalties and financing are four analyses rather than one, and each needs its own method and its own comparables.

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The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

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.

Residence is tested, not assumed

Where you are resident for treaty purposes is a question with a method. We work through it and write down the answer, with the facts it rests on.

Every figure on a page is traceable

Where a rate or a threshold appears in our writing it names the tax year it belongs to. Where it could not be confirmed, the page describes the mechanism and quotes no number.

A named reviewer on every file

Every page on this site and every file we deliver says which practitioner reviewed it — a person, not a team inbox.

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

From first call to filed return

Step 1

Establishing the facts

A call to the 24-hour helpline to find out whether this is a filing or a project

Step 2

Agreeing the fee

A fixed fee for a written scope — re-quoted if the scope changes, never invoiced silently

Step 3

Drafting and review

Preparation against the evidence, with the positions documented as we go

Step 4

Filing and follow-up

Your approval, then the filing — in that order

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A fixed quote first, in writing

  • Step 1: Hand over the paperwork in any state – Sorting it is our job. Send what exists and we identify what is missing from it.
  • Step 2: Priced before a single form is opened – The fee comes from the documents, agreed in writing, and stays where it was agreed.
  • Step 3: One position across every return – The same facts, filed consistently on each side, so nothing contradicts anything else.
  • Step 4: Filed after you have read it – The completed work reaches you before it reaches an authority.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Case study 2

A Residency Determination Review After Leaving the Country

Residence is decided on ties, not on a form, and the review asks for evidence of every one of them. The file assembles the ties that were severed and the ones that remained, and answers the questionnaire against the treaty rather than around it.

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Case study 3

A Distribution From a Trust Set Up Abroad

A distribution can be capital in the trust's country and income here, and the reporting attaches to the beneficiary rather than the trustee. The work is characterising the payment before it is received where possible.

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Case study 4

Residency Changed Mid-Year and Both Returns Assumed a Full One

A move part-way through a year produces two part-year positions, not two full ones. The engagement establishes the date residence actually changed, allocates income either side of it, and amends whichever return was filed on the wrong footing.

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Case study 5

An Estate That Cannot Distribute Until the Clearance Comes

An executor who distributes before the clearance certificate can be held personally liable for what is later assessed. The file prepares the final return and the estate return, and applies for the clearance in the order that lets the estate close.

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Case study 6

Canadian Dividends and Interest Paid to a Non-Resident

Flat withholding applies at source whether or not a return would produce the same figure. The engagement establishes treaty entitlement, files what is needed to claim the reduced rate, and recovers what went out at the domestic rate.

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Case study 7

The Deemed Sale That Happens on Death

Canada treats most capital property as sold at fair market value on death, so a terminal return can carry tax on gains nobody realised. Valuations and the order of the returns are what decide the figure.

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Case study 8

A Home Kept in Canada After the Move Abroad

A dwelling left available is the tie the CRA weighs most heavily, and its treatment differs depending on whether it is rented at arm's length. The file settles the residence position first and the rental reporting second.

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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.

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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.

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Form T106 — questions we are asked

Do I file Form T106 even if no tax is owed?

Information return obligations of this kind are generally required on the facts rather than on the tax result, so a nil position does not remove one. Canadian corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals whose reportable transactions with related non-residents exceed the filing threshold.

What happens if I have missed Form T106 for several years?

Missed years are dealt with as a package rather than one at a time, because the route chosen for the first year affects the relief available for the rest. We map the years and the obligations before anything is filed.

Is Form T106 the same as the other reports I already file?

No. The information return of non-arm's-length transactions with non-residents — goods, services, royalties, interest, and loans. Satisfying a different obligation, even one covering the same accounts or entity, does nothing for this one.

Which transactions count as non-arms-length for T106 purposes?

The test is the relationship, not the size of the transaction. Dealings with a non-resident you are related to, or with whom you do not deal at arms length in fact, are reportable once the year's total reaches the reporting threshold — and the threshold is measured across all such transactions together, which is how filers who look at each contract separately miss it. Whether a particular counterparty is at arms length is a question of control and of who actually decides the terms, and it is settled from the facts before the summary is prepared.

What is OECD Pillar One?

The part of the international agreement that reallocates a share of taxing rights over the very largest and most profitable groups to the jurisdictions where their customers and users are, regardless of physical presence — plus a simplified approach to routine marketing and distribution returns. It is aimed at the digitalised economy problem that physical-presence rules could not reach, and its implementation is still moving, which is why we read the current instrument rather than the original blueprint. See BEPS and Pillar Two.

Do I need transfer pricing documentation?

If your company transacts with a related party in another country, in substance yes — the question is how much. Documentation is what shifts the burden: prepared before the filing deadline it evidences that your pricing was set on arm's length terms, and its absence is what turns a pricing adjustment into a penalty in several regimes. Volume of related-party dealings drives whether you need a local file, a master file, or a full benchmarking study. See do I need transfer pricing documentation.

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Form T106, quoted before we start

One call to the 24-hour helpline is enough to tell you what has to be filed, what it costs, and whether you need us at all.

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