Affordable RSUs across borders

Restricted share units are taxed at vest in most systems, which means an employee who moved between grant and vest owes tax in a country they no longer live in. Affordable RSUs across borders 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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  • 15+ years of cross-border experience
  • Fixed fee agreed before work starts
  • 18,000+ clients served
The short answer

Restricted share units are taxed at vest in most systems, which means an employee who moved between grant and vest owes tax in a country they no longer live in. The benefit is generally apportioned by workdays over the vesting period, with each country taxing its share at its own rate.

Whether this is your situation

  • 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
  • Equity was granted in one country and vests in another
  • You cannot produce a day-count record for the year

That list is deliberately concrete. If you recognise yourself in it, this page is the right starting point; if you do not, tell us and we will point you elsewhere without charging for it.

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What rsus across borders costs here

RSUs are taxed at one point, the vest, so the fee here follows how many vesting events have to be apportioned and whether a workday record survives for the vesting period. A single grant vesting on a clean calendar is short work; several tranches spanning a move, with the day count to be reconstructed, is not.

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.
See the full fee page

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Employer registration and withholding for staff on assignment, arranged before the first pay run rather than corrected after it.
See the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Company filings where income, ownership or operations cross a border, with the related-party disclosures that come with them.
See the fee schedule

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

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Intercompany pricing documented before it is questioned — the functional analysis, the benchmarking and the files that support it.
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

Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Voluntary disclosure handled as one piece of work, from the review of what is outstanding to the returns that close it.
See the fee schedule

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

The mechanism, in plain terms

Restricted share units are taxed at vest in most systems, which means an employee who moved between grant and vest owes tax in a country they no longer live in.

The benefit is generally apportioned by workdays over the vesting period, with each country taxing its share at its own rate. Payroll withholding in the former country and credit in the new one are the two mechanics that have to line up.

The rule is therefore less about arithmetic than about proof. Two people with identical numbers can end up in very different positions because one of them can evidence the date, the valuation or the residence and the other cannot.

Where the position depends on a threshold, a rate or a day count, we confirm it against the issuing authority for your own tax year before it goes on a return. Where a figure cannot be verified for your year, we set out the mechanism and quote no number — a wrong threshold on a filed return is worse than an explained one. See also foreign affiliate structure review and tax for welders & skilled trades.

What we actually file

  • Assignment documentation that settles who the employer actually is
  • 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

Worked through with figures

The arithmetic is more persuasive than the description, so:

Splitting one salary between two countries

A salary of C$107,000 for a year with 227 working days, 51 of them performed in the other country. Employment income is generally sourced to where the work was physically done.

Splitting one salary between two countries
ItemAmount
Annual salaryC$107,000
Working days in the year227
Days worked in the other country51
Days worked at home176
Income sourced to the other countryC$24,040
Income sourced at homeC$82,960

C$24,040 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.

Treat these numbers as a worked example rather than advice — they exist to make the mechanics visible, and the rates and thresholds are assumed for the illustration. For a real filing, we verify each figure with the authority that publishes it, for your year.

What working with us looks like

  1. 1We start with the chronology: dates, countries, and what has already been filed
  2. 2You get the scope and the fee in writing before we touch anything
  3. 3The work is prepared and reviewed by a named person, not a queue
  4. 4Nothing is filed until you have read it

Fees for this work

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 RSUs across borders is smaller than you feared. Comparable engagements and their fixed fees are set out on the pricing pages.

  • Authorisation with each authority, so we see the assessments and slips directly rather than asking you for them.
  • Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file; we take the cross-border piece, with the boundary in writing.
  • Every statutory figure in your file is verified for your own year at source.

Your next step

The quote comes before the work, in writing. 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 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.

Where payroll mobility tax comes into this file

If you came here for payroll mobility tax, this is where it is dealt with. The subject is RSUs across borders, and the page covers who it reaches, what then has to be filed, and what we charge to do the work.

Restricted share units are taxed at vest in most systems, which means an employee who moved between grant and vest owes tax in a country they no longer live in.

The four phases of the work

  1. Hand over the paperwork in any state

    Sorting it is our job. Send what exists and we identify what is missing from it.

  2. Priced before a single form is opened

    The fee comes from the documents, agreed in writing, and stays where it was agreed.

  3. One position across every return

    The same facts, filed consistently on each side, so nothing contradicts anything else.

  4. Filed after you have read it

    The completed work reaches you before it reaches an authority.

How rsus across borders 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

Key terms behind this page, defined

Credit method
A relief method under which the residence country taxes the foreign income and allows the foreign tax against its own, up to its own tax on that income.
Foreign affiliate
A non-resident corporation in which a Canadian resident holds a specified level of interest, bringing surplus computations and information reporting with it.
Updated return
India's route to voluntarily correct or file late within a statutory window, on payment of additional tax and with limits on what it may do.
Section 94 trust
A trust deemed resident in Canada because of a resident contributor or beneficiary, bringing its income into the Canadian base.
rsus across borders: Our analysis

The benefit is generally apportioned by workdays over the vesting period, with each country taxing its share at its own rate.

Whichever way the facts cut, you keep the same footing: a fee agreed in writing beforehand, a named practitioner reviewing the file, and nothing filed until the work is delivered and approved.

The published fees closest to rsus across borders

These published fees keep the employer side and the employee side apart. Withholding run through the payroll the employee has left often has to be corrected at source, while the credit is claimed on the return where they now live, and a file covering several vesting years is scoped on both counts.

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

Non-resident & departure filings

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: The filings that follow a move: the departure year, the arrival year, and the income that keeps arriving from the country behind you.

See this fee page

Why clients bring rsus across borders to us

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.

One team, not two firms billing separately

You are not the go-between for two sets of advisers with two sets of assumptions. One engagement covers each country the file touches.

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.

Filed with the authority, not just prepared

The engagement runs to submission and to the correspondence that follows it, including the queries that arrive months later.

The team reviewing a file together at a desk

From first call to filed return

Step 1

First conversation

We start with the chronology: dates, countries, and what has already been filed

Step 2

Written quote

You get the scope and the fee in writing before we touch anything

Step 3

Preparation and sign-off

The work is prepared and reviewed by a named person, not a queue

Step 4

Submission

Nothing is filed until you have read it

The team at work in the open-plan office

From first document to filed return

  • Step 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.
  • Step 2: Fixed fee, defined scope, in writing – Both agreed before work starts, so the engagement cannot grow into a larger bill.
  • Step 3: Prepared together, not passed between firms – You are not the go-between for two sets of advisers working from two sets of assumptions.
  • Step 4: Reviewed, approved, filed – A named practitioner checks it, you approve it, and then it goes.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Keep reading, sideways

Browse sideways: the pages below answer the neighbouring questions.

The work we do for clients like this

IRS appeals & the Taxpayer Advocate Its own page: IRS appeals taxpayer advocate — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Choosing a method — CUP Everything on choosing a method — cup, at the same depth as this page.
Business profits and permanent establishment — Articles V and VII Business profits permanent establishment article — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form T2062A — depreciable / resource property The full guide to t2062a depreciable resource property, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Form 1040-X — amended return Its own page: form 1040-x amended return — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
India ↔ UAE — DTAA Everything on India ↔ UAE — DTAA, at the same depth as this page.
IP moved between countries Ip moved between countries tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
GIFT City & IFSC structures The full guide to gift city & IFSC structures, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Canadian with an offshore account Its own page: Canadian with an offshore account — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

Who we bring this work to

Construction & contracting — your filing calendar Its own page: construction & contracting your filing calendar — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Management consultants — what we charge Everything on management consultants what we charge, at the same depth as this page.
Amazon FBA sellers cross-border tax Amazon fba sellers cross border tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Cross-border truck drivers — what you owe in each country The full guide to cross-border truck drivers what you owe in each country, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for corporate & charter pilots Its own page: corporate & charter pilots tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Tax for touring musicians Everything on touring musicians tax, at the same depth as this page.
Airline pilots — what we charge Airline pilots what we charge — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Media & production companies cross-border tax The full guide to media & production companies cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Agriculture & agri-tech cross-border tax Its own page: agriculture & agri-tech cross border tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.

Countries and corridors this work reaches

Romania tax for expats — country guide Its own page: romania tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Zimbabwe tax for expats — country guide Everything on zimbabwe tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Uganda tax for expats — country guide Uganda tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Canada–Philippines tax corridor The full guide to Canada Philippines tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Denmark tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Denmark tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Oman tax for expats — country guide Everything on Oman tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Panama tax for expats — country guide Panama tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
India tax for expats — country guide The full guide to India tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Mauritius tax for expats — country guide Its own page: mauritius 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

Files that look like this one

Case study 1

One Employee in a State Nobody Had Registered In

A single person working from home can create payroll registration, withholding and sometimes an income tax filing for the company in that state. The review measures activity against each state's own threshold.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

Years Filed Quietly, and What That Cost

Posting missing returns without taking a view on the route gives up the certification-based protection and can itself be read as an indicator. The first task on these files is mapping which years remain eligible for which route.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

One Salesperson Abroad, and a Corporate Filing Obligation

A single employee with authority to conclude contracts can create a taxable presence for the whole company. The review tests what the person actually does against the treaty article, and where a presence exists, works out what profit is attributable to it.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

A Disclosure Where the Facts Were Not Innocent

Where non-compliance was not inadvertent, the certification-based routes are unavailable and a different practice applies, with its own protections and its own price. Establishing which side of that line the facts fall on is done before contact is made.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

Wintering in the US Long Enough to Become a US Filer

Days in the United States accumulate across three years, and enough of them make you a US resident for tax regardless of immigration status. The file counts the days properly and files the statement that keeps the position closer connection rather than residence.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

An Assignee Paid at Home and Taxable Away

Where pay stays on the home payroll but the tax arises elsewhere, a shadow run reports the second country's liability without duplicating the payment. Setting it up correctly is what keeps both sides reconcilable.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

A US Citizen Settled in India, Filing on Both Sides

Residence in India and citizenship in the United States produce two annual returns for one income. The order decides the credit, and the Indian financial year and the US calendar year have to be reconciled before either is prepared.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

An Assignment Priced on an Equalisation Promise

A policy that leaves the assignee no better or worse off has to be computed, not just stated, and the hypothetical deduction runs alongside the real one. The engagement builds both and reconciles them at year end.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

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

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

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

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

Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

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

Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

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

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

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

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

  • 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

Related-party purchasing, customs value versus transfer price, and foreign-affiliate structures put trading businesses inside the s.247 documentation rules.

Goods crossing a border move the tax question from income to indirect: registration thresholds, place of supply, the customs value and the transfer price between related entities all have to agree with each other. When they do not, the adjustment arrives from two authorities at once and each one uses the other's number.

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

RSUs across borders — questions we are asked

RSUs across borders — is this a do-it-yourself job?

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 benefit is generally apportioned by workdays over the vesting period, with each country taxing its share at its own rate.

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.

What counts as foreign income, and what is a foreign tax?

Foreign income is income sourced outside the country you are filing in — where the work was done, where the property sits, where the payer is resident, depending on the type. A foreign tax, for credit purposes, is a levy imposed by another country that functions as an income tax and that you were legally required to pay. Consumption taxes, property taxes and most social contributions are not, however real the cost. Sourcing is decided by rule, not by which bank received it. See the foreign tax credit.

What happens if the two countries disagree about which of them can tax me?

The treaty has a procedure for exactly that. You apply to the competent authority in your residence country, which takes the case up with its counterpart, and the two negotiate a position that removes the double taxation. Some treaties add binding arbitration if they cannot agree. It is slow and it runs on documents, so the practical work is preserving the record and filing protective claims while the clock runs. See our treaty work.

Do I get credit for all of the foreign tax I paid?

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.

Can you help before I move rather than after?

That is the cheapest engagement we offer. Almost every lever in this area expires on the day a status changes, and beforehand they are all still available.

What if I disagree with the position you recommend?

We set out the alternatives with their exposure and let you choose. Where a position is defensible but aggressive we say so in writing rather than filing it quietly.

24-hour helpline: +1 (416) 619-0068

Rsus across borders, quoted before we start

Send us the facts. You will get a scope and a fixed fee in writing, and nothing starts until you agree to both.

  • Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file
  • Re-quoted, never silently invoiced
  • Fixed fees agreed before work starts

Our practitioners are alumni of leading accounting and tax institutions

Where our partners studied — CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), AICPA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

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