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Send what you have. We price the engagement from your own documents, in writing, before any work starts.

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The short answer

A foreign employer with one employee working in Canada owes Canadian payroll withholding on those workdays, and the employee's exemption under the treaty does not remove the employer's obligation. Registration, source deductions and reporting follow the place of work.

Do you need this?

  • A relocation package was agreed without modelling it after tax
  • An employer-of-record provider handles payroll and nobody has tested the presence risk
  • A home-country payroll is still running for someone who has moved
  • An employee works in a country your payroll does not cover
  • Someone is on assignment, secondment or a rotational schedule

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 payroll for a foreign employee in Canada

What decides the fee for a foreign employer with someone working in Canada is whether payroll relief is arranged in advance or the obligation has already been missed. A waiver or qualifying non-resident employer certification obtained before the first Canadian workday is one engagement; registering late, with source deductions and reporting owed for days already worked, is another.

Cross-border payroll setup — fixed-fee price

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Registrations, source deductions and reporting in the country of work, plus the social security certificate and the day-count discipline that supports the position.
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Reg 105 or 102 waiver application — fixed-fee price

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The waiver application prepared and filed before the payment or the assignment, with the treaty basis or the income-and-expense computation that supports it.
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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.
See the fee schedule

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.
See the fee schedule

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

A personal filing built from your own documents — employment, investment and rental income across borders, with the treaty position set out.
See the fee schedule

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.
See the fee schedule

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.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Foreign holdings mapped once — accounts, real property, shareholdings — then reported to each authority in the form it requires.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — the complete list of what each engagement costs, stated as figures rather than ranges.

What the rule does, step by step

A foreign employer with one employee working in Canada owes Canadian payroll withholding on those workdays, and the employee's exemption under the treaty does not remove the employer's obligation.

Registration, source deductions and reporting follow the place of work. Relief comes through a waiver or a qualifying non-resident employer certification, both arranged in advance, and social security follows the totalization agreement rather than the treaty.

Two things follow from that. The first is that the outcome is decided by facts you can arrange and evidence you can keep, rather than by how the return is completed at the end of the year. The second is that sequence matters: the same steps taken in a different order can produce a materially different result, which is why the first conversation is about dates and documents rather than forms.

Every statutory figure that reaches your file is checked against the authority that issues it, for the year in question, before anything is filed. Where we cannot verify a number for your year, the advice explains the mechanism instead and says so plainly, because an unverified threshold is a liability rather than a shortcut. See also tax for product & project managers and tax for auditors & accountants abroad.

What we actually file

  • Day-count records assembled from travel data
  • Year-end reconciliations between the two payrolls
  • Host and home payroll registrations and returns
  • Waivers and certifications that remove withholding where a treaty applies
  • Certificates of coverage for social security

The arithmetic, worked through

Here is the rule doing its work on an actual set of amounts.

Splitting one salary between two countries

A salary of C$219,000 for a year with 245 working days, 81 of them performed in the other country. Employment income is generally sourced to where the work was physically done.

ItemAmount
Annual salaryC$219,000
Working days in the year245
Days worked in the other country81
Days worked at home164
Income sourced to the other countryC$72,404
Income sourced at homeC$146,596

C$72,404 is sourced abroad on this split, which is the figure the host country taxes and the figure the home credit is computed on. Reproduce this from a travel record, not from memory — it is the first thing an auditor asks for. The shape of that result holds; the size of it depends entirely on your own numbers and dates.

Illustrative figures, not a client engagement: the amounts are chosen to make the mechanism legible, and the rates and thresholds are assumptions stated for the example only. We confirm every one of them against the issuing authority for your own tax year before anything is filed.

What working with us looks like

  1. 1A call to the 24-hour helpline to find out whether this is a filing or a project
  2. 2A fixed fee for a written scope — re-quoted if the scope changes, never invoiced silently
  3. 3Preparation against the evidence, with the positions documented as we go
  4. 4Your approval, then the filing — in that order

What you pay, and when

Fees for payroll for a foreign employee in Canada are quoted as a fixed amount for a defined scope. There is no hourly meter and no surprise on the invoice: the number is agreed in writing before anything starts. Comparable engagements and their fixed fees are set out on the pricing pages.

  • Every statutory figure in your file is verified for your own year at source.
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.
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Your next step

We would rather scope it properly than quote it quickly. The fastest start is a short call and three things: what happened, when it happened, and which countries are involved. Everything else we can ask for as it comes up.

Reviewed against current guidance 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.

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A foreign employer with one employee working in Canada owes Canadian payroll withholding on those workdays, and the employee's exemption under the treaty does not remove the employer's obligation.

From first contact to filed return

  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 payroll for a foreign employee in Canada

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

Resale price method
A method testing the gross margin earned by a reseller, sensitive to consistent classification between cost of sales and operating expense.
Black Money Act
India's statute on undisclosed foreign income and assets, with its own assessment powers, penalties and prosecution provisions outside the income tax act.
Thin capitalisation
Rules capping the deductible interest of a company funded disproportionately by related-party debt, tested by capital structure rather than by rate.
Day-count record
A contemporaneous record of presence by country. Almost every cross-border employment position depends on one, and almost nobody can produce one after the year has ended.
payroll for a foreign employee in Canada: Our analysis

Registration, source deductions and reporting follow the place of work.

Whatever the file turns out to involve, the terms do not move: the scope and the fee are agreed in writing before any work starts, a named practitioner reviews the result, and nothing is filed until you have approved it.

Fixed fees around payroll for a foreign employee in Canada

Headcount and the length of each stay then set the scale, and social security is quoted separately because the totalization agreement rather than the treaty governs contributions — a certificate may be needed for each person. Every part of it is priced in writing before any filing is prepared.

Corporate cross-border filing

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: Corporate compliance for a group that trades or holds assets in more than one country, prepared on both sides together.

See this fee page

Payroll & mobility setup

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: Payroll set up for a workforce split across countries, including the relief that stops the same salary being withheld on twice.

See this fee page

Individual tax filing

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Personal returns for individuals, expats and non-residents — foreign income, foreign property and treaty relief handled in one engagement.

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The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

Late and missed years are ordinary work

An unfiled history is not a reason to wait longer. We assess what is still open and what relief the delay attracts before the first return goes in.

The quote comes from your documents

Nothing is priced from a phone call. We read what you have first, then the fee is set — so the scope and the number are agreed on the same evidence.

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.

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 team at work in the open-plan office

Payroll for a foreign employee in Canada — the four phases

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

The firm’s founder at his desk in the Delhi office

The engagement, start to finish

  • 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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Where to go next

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

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Social security & totalization certificates Its own page: social security & totalization certificates — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Form 2555 — foreign earned income exclusion Everything on foreign earned income exclusion, at the same depth as this page.
Form 10FA / 10FB — TRC for Indian residents (India) Form 10fa / 10fb India — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form T1248 — residency information schedule The full guide to t1248 residency information schedule, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Local resident director services in India Its own page: resident director services India — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

Who we help

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Where our clients live and work

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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.

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

Paid for Work Done in Canada While Living Elsewhere

Employment carried out in Canada is taxable here even where the employer and the bank account are not. The engagement establishes how many of the days were worked in Canada, applies the treaty employment article, and deals with the withholding the payer has already taken.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

A Relief That Turned on Days Nobody Had Recorded

Treaty exemption, residence and social security are each decided by a count that has to be evidenced rather than recalled. The engagement builds the record from tickets, rosters and payroll before applying any article.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

Social Security Contributions Owed in Two Countries at Once

A totalization agreement assigns contributions to one system and exempts the other, but only against a certificate obtained in advance. Without it both sets come out of the same salary and neither is straightforward to recover.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

Options Granted in India and Exercised Elsewhere

Where the grant, the vesting and the exercise happen in different countries, each may claim part of the same gain. Apportioning it across the period worked is what prevents the whole amount being taxed twice.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

A Student or Researcher Covered by a Treaty Article

Several treaties carry a dedicated article for students, trainees and visiting researchers that displaces the ordinary employment rules. Whether it applies turns on the purpose of the stay and the source of the funds, both of which are evidenced rather than asserted.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

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 7

Green Card Kept, Moved to Canada — Both Returns Still Due

Holding a green card does not end the US filing obligation, and living in Canada starts a Canadian one. The engagement fixes residence under the treaty tie-breaker, then decides which return the relief is claimed on so the two do not contradict each other.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

Documentation Requested, and the Deadline Is Not Extendable

Contemporaneous documentation has to exist by the filing deadline, not be assembled when it is asked for, and the penalty protection turns on that timing. The engagement produces the analysis for the year in question and puts a repeatable process behind the next one.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Where we deliver this work

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

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

Cross-border tax for sellers shipping worldwide: marketplace withholding, foreign registrations and inventory nexus handled before they become audits.

Marketplaces withhold, remit and report in their own right, so the tax position of a single sale is decided by where the stock sat, where the buyer was and which platform collected — not by where the company is registered. We reconcile the platform's own filings against the returns before either is submitted.

  • Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
  • Marketplace withholding reviews
  • Inventory nexus & PE analysis
  • Multi-currency books reconciled
Explore E-commerce & Marketplaces

Technology & SaaS

  • Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
  • IP structuring with real substance
  • Equity for cross-border teams
  • U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
Explore Technology & SaaS

Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
Explore Trade & Manufacturing

Athletes, Artists & Entertainers

  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
Explore Athletes & Entertainers

Remote Workers & Digital Nomads

  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
Explore Remote Workers

Investment Funds & Holding Companies

  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

Payroll for a foreign employee in Canada — questions we are asked

Payroll for a foreign employee in Canada — can I handle this myself?

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: registration, source deductions and reporting follow the place of work.

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.

How many days can I spend in a country before I become tax resident?

It depends on the country, and a day count is only ever the start. Many use a threshold in a tax year, some also look at averages across several years, and some have no day test at all and decide on where your home and life are. Two countries can both conclude you are resident, which is what the treaty tie-breaker exists to settle. Counting days without checking the tie-breaker is how people end up filing as resident nowhere. See the residency tie-breaker.

Is "fund transfer pricing" the same thing as transfer pricing?

No — and if you came here to calculate FTP, this is not it. Fund transfer pricing is a bank's internal allocation of funding costs and benefits between its own business units, a treasury and asset-liability management discipline used to measure branch or product profitability. Tax transfer pricing is about prices between legally separate related parties across borders, and about which country taxes the resulting profit. The words overlap; the fields do not. See our transfer pricing work.

Can an accountant in one country file my return in another?

Yes, where they are authorised to represent you with that tax authority and the filing is done electronically. What matters is not where the adviser sits but whether they can lawfully act for you and are competent in both systems — a return prepared with no knowledge of the other country is where the relief gets missed. We file on both sides, from offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE. See how we work.

What if I am behind on filings?

That is a routine engagement rather than an unusual one. We map the unfiled years and obligations first, then advise which catch-up route is open before anything is filed — the order matters more than the speed.

What happens after the filing?

You get the filed copies and a note of anything due next year, with the dates. Where an authority responds, that correspondence comes to us if the authorisation is in place.

Tax terms explained

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