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At Legal Quotient Consultants, we manage all your international tax structuring requirements, from compliance to strategic planning. Our expert team ensures compliance, maximizes deductions, and optimizes your financial strategies so you can focus on growing your business. Cost-effective International Tax Structuring for Cross-Border & Global Clients 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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| Service | Includes | Fee | |
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| Individual Cross-Border Tax | T1 + treaty coordination · Foreign income · Credits | FROM- $349 | Explore More |
| U.S. Tax Returns | 1040 / 1040-NR · State returns · FBAR | FROM- $449 | Explore More |
| Corporate International Tax | T2 + foreign affiliate · T1134 · Repatriation | FROM- $999 | Explore More |
| Transfer Pricing Documentation | Local file · Benchmarking · s.247 compliance | FROM- $2,500 | Explore More |
| Cross-Border Estate & Trust | Terminal returns · U.S. estate tax · Clearance | FROM- $799 | Explore More |
Structuring decides which entity, in which country, owns what and earns what. The choices are between a branch and a subsidiary, between a corporation and a flow-through, between direct ownership and a holding company, and between debt and equity for funding an operation abroad. Each choice changes where profits are taxed first, whether they can be moved to the owner without a second layer of tax, and what the exit looks like when the business or the property is sold.
Every candidate structure is tested against the anti-avoidance rules that target it: the controlled-foreign-company and foreign-accrual rules that tax passive income earned abroad as if it were earned at home, thin-capitalisation and interest-limitation rules on intercompany debt, hybrid-mismatch rules where two countries classify one entity differently, and the treaty limitation-on-benefits and principal-purpose tests that deny treaty rates to structures set up to obtain them.
Is a subsidiary always better than a branch? No. A branch's losses can often offset the parent's profits and a branch avoids a second layer of tax on repatriation; a subsidiary limits liability and can access treaty rates a branch cannot. The answer depends on expected profitability, the countries and the exit.
Can a holding company in a third country reduce withholding? Only if it has real substance there and passes the treaty's anti-abuse tests; a holding company with no staff, premises or decision-making is exactly what the principal-purpose test was written to deny.
International Tax Structuring: Legal Quotient Consultants provides international tax structuring for individuals and businesses with income in more than one country — planned and filed by cross-border specialists, with fixed fees agreed up front and every position explained before anything is submitted.
Send your documents securely through our portal or by email.
We prepare your international tax structuring return and every supporting schedule.
You review each figure and approve before anything is filed.
We file with the CRA and send you the confirmation of receipt.
| Factor | Legal Quotient Consultants | Typical Firm |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Fixed, flat fee | Hourly / unpredictable |
| Experience | 15+ years, 18,000+ clients | Varies |
| Helpline | 24 hours a day, +1 (416) 619-0068 | Office hours only |
| Where we work | Our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE | One office only |
| CRA audit support | Included | Billed extra |
Holding structures, financing mix and IP location decide the group's effective rate; we structure within substance requirements, not around them.
Residency is decided on facts — home, family, economic ties — and the tie-breaker rules in Canada's tax treaties settle the cases where two countries both claim you. Engagements are quoted as a fixed fee for a defined scope, and reviews of prior-year filings are included where earlier positions affect the current one.
Covers: A written opinion on whether the activity creates a taxable presence, what would be attributable to it if it did, and what could be changed to alter the answer.
What moves it up: How many people and places are involved. One employee working from home is one analysis; a sales team, a warehouse and a contractor with signing authority is several.
See this fee pageCovers: The Canadian return with foreign income, foreign tax credits computed by category and country, and the foreign property reporting that usually accompanies them.
What moves it up: The number of countries. One foreign employer is a straightforward credit; income and tax from three countries means three separate credit computations with their own limits.
See this fee pageCovers: The Canadian corporate return with the cross-border schedules that travel with it — foreign income, payments to non-residents, and the foreign affiliate flags.
What moves it up: The number of related-party transactions. A single management fee is manageable; a dozen intercompany flows brings the related-party return and transfer-pricing support with it.
See this fee pageProviding tailored international tax structuring services to ensure compliance and maximize deductions.
Our cross-border tax accountants protect your business with complete federal and provincial tax compliance.
A dedicated team that handles your financials quickly and accurately, at a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts.
Dedicated preparation processes built around the countries each client files in.
Documents, questions and signatures in one portal, whichever country you are filing from.
Customized packages designed to grow as your business operations expand.
Start with a free, no-obligation consultation to review your business’s financial, tax filing and compliance needs and outline our affordable solutions.
Receive a comprehensive checklist and securely provide the required financial records and documents.
Our tax accountant and accounting experts carefully prepare your filings, identify all applicable deductions and credits, and conduct thorough reviews.
We file your documents electronically with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on time and provide post-filing support.
Quoted up front, in writing.
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International Tax Structuring starts at a fixed fee quoted before any work begins. The quote is locked at the outset and does not change mid-engagement, and you review the deliverable with us before it is filed. Compare every plan on our transparent pricing page.
At minimum: prior-year returns and notices of assessment, your bank and credit-card statements for the fiscal period, payroll records if you have employees, and GST/HST filings. We send a checklist tailored to your situation after the first call to our 24-hour helpline.
Most engagements are completed within 3 to 5 business days once your documents are complete. Catch-up work covering multiple years takes longer, and we tell you the realistic timeline before you commit rather than after.
We respond on your behalf at no extra charge for any return we prepared. Every figure we file is supported by documentation retained in your file, which is what turns a CRA review from a crisis into correspondence. See how our CRA audit support works.
Yes. The late-filing penalty is 5% of the balance owing plus 1% of that balance for each full month the return is late, to a maximum of 12 months (CRA, 2025 tax year). Interest is what compounds, daily, on top. We prioritise catch-up work and, where eligible, file under the CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program to reduce penalties.
Yes. We work with clients wherever they live, from our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE, and your location does not change the price or the service. Browse our coverage by country and region to find yours.
We work across construction, healthcare, e-commerce, professional services, restaurants, real estate, transportation, technology and non-profits, each with its own deduction profile and the points tax authorities scrutinise. See all industries we serve.
Software applies the rules you told it about. It does not ask whether a treaty caps the withholding on that payment, whether the foreign credit was claimed in the right country, whether an information return was due on an account that earned nothing, or whether your related-party pricing is documented. Those are the questions that move the number on a cross-border file.
Our international tax structuring services include complete filing, compliance management, and strategic advice customized to Canadian tax laws.
You can start by calling our 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068 or sending the form. We will review your files, provide a fixed quote, and start working immediately.
Only up to your own country's tax on that same income, and only for tax you were legally obliged to pay. Two consequences follow. Living somewhere that taxes you more heavily than your residence country does leaves an excess that becomes a carryover rather than a refund. And withholding suffered above the treaty rate is not creditable — the route back to that money is a refund claim in the country that took it. See claiming the credit.
American expats and green card holders need to file US returns for life, and many of them pay little or no US tax once the relief is applied — but the filing is what unlocks the relief, so the two questions have different answers. The exclusion for foreign earned income, the credit for foreign tax already paid and the treaty between the two countries between them usually leave the total at roughly the higher of the two countries' tax rather than the sum. Skip the return and none of it applies. See Americans abroad.
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Partners forming a new cross-border venture needed the entity structure chosen before the first transaction under the venture was completed, since the structure is far harder to change once activity has begun. We reviewed the venture's plans and recommended the structure before any transaction took place.
A group with an existing cross-border structure needed its layers reviewed after a second country was added through a new subsidiary, since the original structure had not anticipated the addition. We reviewed the expanded group and adjusted the structuring to accommodate the new entity.
A family holding investments through a cross-border structure needed that structure reorganized after the family's own country of residence changed, since the original structure had been built around the prior residence. We reviewed the structure against the new residence and reorganized it to fit the family's current position.
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 runsNearly every relief in a mobility file — treaty exemption, residence, social security — is decided by a day count that has to be evidenced. The engagement puts the tracking in place at the start, because it cannot be reconstructed at the end.
Read how this one runsUS shares and US real estate sit inside the US estate tax net regardless of where the owner lives. The treaty provides relief that is proportionate rather than automatic, and the calculation depends on the worldwide estate.
Read how this one runsPayments 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.
Read how this one runsPension and annuity articles allocate taxing rights differently from employment income, and a flat withholding often exceeds what a return would produce. The alternative filing is elective and has a deadline.
Read how this one runsAll case studies — every published engagement in one place.
Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.
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.
Where our partners studied — CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), AICPA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
