Crypto traders: what we charge

For crypto traders: the cross-border filings, the treaty relief and the disclosures, handled end to end on a written fixed fee.

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In short

Crypto held with a foreign exchange is foreign property in most reporting regimes even though the asset itself has no location, and the reporting is due whether or not anything was sold.

Further down: the governing rule, the first-call questions, two completed files with figures, the way the work runs, and where the fee is published.

The rule that applies to this group and not the one next to it

Crypto held with a foreign exchange is foreign property in most reporting regimes even though the asset itself has no location, and the reporting is due whether or not anything was sold.

Read this first; the rest is procedure. The difference between the two outcomes is a provision most people in this position have never heard of — and once it is identified, the rest of the file is straightforward.

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Fixed fees for crypto traders what we charge, agreed up front

A quote on a crypto file is built piece by piece rather than as one number: the reconciliation of the exchange and wallet history, the return it feeds, and the foreign-property reporting that falls due for the years your holdings sat with an exchange outside the country.

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for people whose tax position did not stay in one country, including the years residence itself is in question.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Accounts, property and company interests held outside the country of residence, reported on the schedules that carry penalties whether or not tax is owed.
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Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

For anyone taxed by a country they do not live in — rent, pensions and investment income reaching across a border after the move.
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.
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Estate & trust filing

From $799

fixed, quoted before work starts

The returns an estate or trust owes on each side, prepared together so relief for tax paid abroad is actually claimed.
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Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for companies with foreign subsidiaries, foreign income or foreign shareholders, and the schedules each of those triggers.
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Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The employer side of mobility — where to register, what to withhold, and what to report once someone works across a border.
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Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Benchmarking and documentation for related-party dealings, prepared to the standard the reviewing authority applies.
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All published fees on one page — the whole fee schedule in one place, with no from-to bands to decode.

Three things we hear on the first call

  • My holdings are on three foreign exchanges and I have never reported any of them.
  • I moved countries and the departure-day valuation was never recorded.
  • Nobody can tell me whether my activity is trading or investing.

Every one of those is a question we answer weekly. They arise because two tax systems were written independently and neither was designed with the other in mind. See also tax for welders & skilled trades.

What this looks like with numbers

The arithmetic is more persuasive than the description, so:

A deemed disposition on the day residency ends

A portfolio bought for C$381,000 is worth C$579,120 on the departure day. Nothing is sold. Assume half the gain enters income and assume a 46% marginal rate on it.

A deemed disposition on the day residency ends
ItemAmount
Cost of the propertyC$381,000
Value on the departure dayC$579,120
Accrued gain treated as realisedC$198,120
Amount assumed to enter incomeC$99,060
Tax at an assumed 46%C$45,568

C$45,568 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 interesting question is where your own figures fall relative to that, which is a computation rather than an opinion.

The figures here are an illustration, not an engagement: amounts are picked so the mechanism is easy to follow, and every rate or threshold is an assumption of the example. Before anything is filed for you, each one is confirmed with the issuing authority for your own tax year.

The numbers, end to end

Numbers make this concrete, so here is the same rule applied to a set of figures.

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$141,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 28% on it and the home country would charge 35% on the same amount.

Credit relief on one stream of income
ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$141,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 28%)C$39,480
Home tax on the same income (assumed 35%)C$49,350
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$39,480
Home tax still payableC$9,870

The credit absorbs C$39,480 and leaves C$9,870 payable at home, because the home rate on this income is the higher of the two. The balance is real cash and it is due on the home timetable, which is why instalments get raised in the first meeting. We run this on your actual numbers before advising anything, because the conclusion can invert with a modest change in inputs.

These amounts illustrate the mechanism only. The rates and thresholds are assumptions of the example, not your numbers: each is checked against the issuing authority for your specific tax year before any return is filed.

What working with us looks like

  1. 1A call to our 24-hour helpline to establish the facts and the dates that matter
  2. 2A written scope and a fixed fee before any work starts
  3. 3Preparation, then a named reviewer's sign-off before anything is filed
  4. 4Filing, then payment — after you have seen and approved the result
  • Authorisation with each authority, so we see the assessments and slips directly rather than asking you for them.
  • 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.

How to get this moving

If that describes your position, the next step is a short call — not a form.

Checked and signed off 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.

International tax accountant, in practice

If you came here for international tax accountant, this is where it is dealt with. The subject is crypto traders: what we charge, and the page covers who it reaches, what then has to be filed, and what we charge to do the work.

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.

The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

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

Dependent agent
A person who habitually concludes contracts, or plays the principal role leading to them, on behalf of a foreign enterprise — creating a taxable presence without premises.
Thin capitalization
Rules capping the deductible interest of a company funded disproportionately by related-party debt, tested by capital structure rather than by interest rate.
Rollback
The extension of an advance pricing agreement to earlier years on the same transactions, available in some countries including India.
Foreign earned income exclusion
The US election that removes foreign earned income from taxable income, up to an annually adjusted cap, for a filer whose tax home is abroad and who meets one of two qualifying tests.

Fixed fees around crypto traders what we charge

Those bands assume records a trader can still produce. Where an exchange has closed its doors, or coins moved between wallets leaving nothing behind them to fix a cost base, the history has to be reconstructed before it can be reported, and that is scoped as its own engagement.

Foreign asset & information reporting

$349fixed, before work starts

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

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Non-resident & departure filings

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: For anyone taxed by a country they do not live in — rent, pensions and investment income reaching across a border after the move.

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What working with us on crypto traders what we charge looks like

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.

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.

Both sides prepared together

Two returns built against each other by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once and nothing falls between the two systems.

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From first call to filed return

Step 1

Initial call

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

Step 2

Scope and fee

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

Step 3

Preparation and review

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

Step 4

Filing and payment

Your approval, then the filing — in that order

The team reviewing a file together at a desk

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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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.

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Case study 1

First Canadian Return After Arriving Mid-Year

The arrival date splits the year and sets the cost base of what you brought with you. Getting that date and those values right is what determines whether a later sale is taxed on the whole gain or only on the part that accrued after landing.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

Never Filed a US Return — and Only Just Found Out

Born in the United States, left as an infant, and told by a bank that the returns were owed all along. The work is sequencing: establish which years are actually open, choose the catch-up route on the facts rather than filing quietly, and claim the exclusions and credits that were never taken.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

Canadian Pension Paid Abroad and Taxed at the Flat Rate

Pension and annuity payments to a non-resident carry a flat withholding that often exceeds what a return would produce. The alternative filing is elective, and whether it helps depends on the total income for the year rather than on the payment alone.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

Two Passports, Two Returns, One Income

Dual citizenship does not let you choose which country taxes you. The work is establishing residence, applying the treaty article that governs each income type, and preparing both returns from one set of figures so they agree line for line.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

Ten Years of Missed Returns Filed as One Engagement

Filing many years at once is a sequencing problem: carry-forwards, instalments and credits from the earliest year feed the latest. Filing them out of order is what turns a recoverable position into an assessed one.

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Case study 6

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.

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Case study 7

One Salary, Two Countries Claiming It

A US citizen resident in Canada, taxed in full on both sides because each return was prepared without the other in view. Deciding which country has the first right to the income, then claiming relief on the second return in the right order, is what stops the same dollar being taxed twice.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

An Indian Company Paying a Foreign Supplier

Payments 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 runs

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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.

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Software revenue crosses borders by default — sourcing rules, withholding on licence-like payments and IP location decide the effective rate.

Software revenue is rarely taxed where the team sits. Licence, subscription and service income are characterised differently by each side, and the answer decides withholding at source, treaty relief and whether a foreign customer creates a taxable presence at all — questions that are cheap to settle before the contract and expensive afterwards.

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Crypto traders — what we charge — questions we are asked

What makes crypto traders different from an ordinary filing?

Crypto held with a foreign exchange is foreign property in most reporting regimes even though the asset itself has no location, and the reporting is due whether or not anything was sold. An ordinary preparer applies the general rule and stops there, which is how the relief in the specific provision goes unclaimed.

Can you work with my existing accountant?

That is how most of these engagements run. They keep the domestic file, we take the cross-border piece, and the boundary is agreed in writing so nothing is done twice or missed.

What is double taxation?

Double taxation means the same income being taxed by two authorities. It comes in two forms: juridical, where two countries each tax one person on one amount, and economic, where two different people are taxed on the same underlying profit — a company on its earnings and a shareholder on the dividend paid out of them. Relief comes from a treaty, a foreign tax credit, or an exemption, and which one applies depends on the income type. How to avoid double taxation sets out the routes.

How much foreign income is tax-free in Canada?

None of it is tax-free for being foreign. A Canadian resident is taxed on worldwide income, so foreign salary, interest, dividends, rent and gains all go on the return, converted to Canadian dollars. What genuinely reduces the bill is the basic personal amount, the credit for foreign tax already paid, and any treaty article that exempts a specific type of income. The reporting thresholds people have in mind — the foreign property statement, for one — govern reporting, not exemption. See the foreign tax credit.

What is the most common thing you find on a review?

An unclaimed foreign tax credit, a missed information return, and a treaty position taken without the disclosure the rules required. Usually all three.

What if an authority disagrees later?

The file is built to be defended: the position, the authority relied on, and the evidence, all recorded at the time. Representation in a review or objection is quoted separately when it is needed.

Fixed fee agreed before we start

Get crypto traders filing handled for a fixed fee

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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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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