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At Legal Quotient Consultants, we manage all your IRS streamlined filing compliance 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. Affordable IRS Streamlined Filing Compliance 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 |
The streamlined procedures let a US person who failed to file returns or information reports come into compliance with reduced penalties, on the condition that the failure was non-wilful — the result of negligence, inadvertence, mistake or a good-faith misunderstanding of the law. The foreign version, for those who lived outside the United States, waives the penalty entirely; the domestic version carries a fixed penalty on the highest foreign-account balance. Both require a set number of years of returns and of FBARs and a signed certification of non-wilfulness explaining, in the filer's own words, why the failures occurred.
The certification is the document that matters. A weak or inaccurate narrative can be read as evidence of wilfulness, which is exactly the finding the procedure is meant to avoid, and it is where this practice spends the most time on a streamlined file. Once the submission is made the procedure is closed to that filer; a second chance does not exist, so the returns inside it are prepared to be complete rather than fast.
How do I know whether my failure was non-wilful? It turns on what you knew and did: someone who did not know a US return was due while living in Canada is the typical non-wilful case; someone who was told and chose not to file is not. The facts are reviewed before the procedure is chosen.
Is there a penalty under the foreign streamlined procedure? No penalty for eligible filers who lived abroad, though tax and interest on the returns filed are paid; the domestic procedure carries a fixed penalty on foreign account balances.
IRS Streamlined Filing Compliance: Legal Quotient Consultants provides irs streamlined filing compliance for U.S. persons in Canada and Canadians with U.S. income or property — 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 IRS streamlined filing compliance 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 |
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| 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 |
The streamlined procedures let non-willful late filers catch up with three years of returns and six of FBARs, penalty-free — eligibility analysis comes first.
U.S. citizens and green-card holders file U.S. returns wherever they live, so a U.S. person in Canada runs two parallel systems — 1040 plus T1 — sequenced so foreign tax credits absorb the overlap. 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: Both US foreign-asset reports prepared from one account and asset list, with the different contents each of them requires, and reconciled to the return they accompany.
What moves it up: Accounts you do not think of as yours. Signature authority over an employer's or a relative's account is inside one report and often outside the other, and finding them takes longer than filing them.
See this fee pageCovers: The full streamlined submission: the back returns, the account reports for the whole period, and the non-willfulness certification that is the substance of the application.
What moves it up: The number of years and the state of the records. The filings are mechanical; reconstructing account histories and building the chronology is what takes the time.
See this fee pageCovers: The disclosure application with the corrected filings, a documented chronology of how the failure arose, and representation through to the CRA's decision.
What moves it up: Whether income as well as reporting was missed. A late information return is one conversation; unreported income across several years is another.
See this fee pageProviding tailored IRS streamlined filing compliance 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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IRS Streamlined Filing Compliance 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 IRS streamlined filing compliance 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.
Not by virtue of it being foreign — there is no exemption for that, and the "keep it offshore" advice you may have read is how people acquire penalties rather than savings. What genuinely reduces the gain is ordinary and legitimate: principal residence relief where the property qualifies and the designation is made correctly, a properly built cost base including acquisition costs and capital improvements, the timing of the disposition, the treaty rules for real property, and credit for the foreign tax paid. See principal residence and foreign property.
A taxable presence in another country under the treaty — typically a fixed place of business such as an office, branch, factory or workshop, or a dependent agent habitually concluding contracts on your behalf. Some treaties add a services test measured in days. Purely preparatory or auxiliary activity is excluded, but that carve-out is narrower than it sounds: one senior employee working from home in the other country, with authority, has been enough. See business profits and permanent establishment.
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A US person in Canada who had never filed needed their conduct assessed against the streamlined program's non-wilful requirement before committing to that specific route rather than an alternative. We reviewed the client's history, confirmed the conduct was genuinely non-wilful, and prepared the streamlined submission on that basis.
A client who had previously filed some years incorrectly needed those prior returns reconciled against the new streamlined submission so the two did not contradict each other. We reviewed the prior filings, amended what needed correcting, and reconciled them with the streamlined submission covering the remaining years.
A client whose situation involved both unreported foreign accounts and an interest in a foreign company needed the streamlined submission prepared covering both categories together rather than addressing one and missing the other. We reviewed both categories and prepared a single streamlined submission covering the client's complete position.
A local file describes the entity's own controlled transactions and ties them to its statutory figures. Where the two do not reconcile, that is what an examiner opens with.
Read how this one runsA 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 runsContemporaneous 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 runsPosting 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 runsAn executor can be personally liable for what is assessed after a distribution, and the clearance that protects them is obtained rather than assumed. The engagement sequences the filings so the distribution is safe when it happens.
Read how this one runsAll case studies — every published engagement in one place.
Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.
Holding structures live or die on treaty access, beneficial ownership and substance — the MLI's principal-purpose test now sits over every arrangement.
A holding structure is only as good as its reporting. Foreign affiliates, accrued passive income and distributions each carry their own return, and the penalties on those attach to the form rather than to any tax being owed — so a structure that saves tax can still cost money if the information returns are late.
Where our partners studied — CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), AICPA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
