Economical Management consultants: what you owe in each country

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In short

Consultants furnishing services in a country for an extended period can create a service permanent establishment for their firm, and several treaties — India's among them — apply that test at a low threshold.

On this page: the rule that applies here, the questions we are asked first, two finished files with their numbers, how an engagement runs, and the fee it starts from.

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

Consultants furnishing services in a country for an extended period can create a service permanent establishment for their firm, and several treaties — India's among them — apply that test at a low threshold.

This is the point most filings get wrong. Two people with identical incomes and identical passports can owe completely different amounts because one of them falls inside a provision the other does not. That is the whole reason this page exists as its own page rather than as a paragraph on a general one.

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Fixed fees for management consultants what you owe in each country, agreed up front

What you owe in each country turns on where the days were spent and which country has the first claim on the fee, so the cost of settling it follows the number of tax systems in play and whether both returns are current. A management consultant with one host country is a shorter file than one posted across several.

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

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

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Documentation for transactions between related companies: the method, the comparables and the file an authority asks to see.
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

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

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

What an employer owes when an employee works in another country: the registrations, the withholding and the reporting that follow.
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

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.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — all of it on a single page, so the number you compare is the number you pay.

Three things we hear on the first call

  • I have been on a client site abroad for eight months straight.
  • My firm bills the client locally and pays me from head office.
  • The client withholds tax on the firm's fee and nobody reclaims it.

If any of that sounds familiar, it is because it is the standard experience of anyone in this position. The rules were not written to be read together, and nobody is given a map. See also non-resident rental income from Canadian property.

The arithmetic, worked through

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

Equity that vests after the move

A grant worth C$148,000 at vest, over a 41-month vesting period, 29 months of which were worked in the first country and 12 in the second.

Equity that vests after the move
ItemAmount
Value at vestC$148,000
Vesting period (months)41
Months worked in the first country29
Months worked in the second country12
Apportioned to the first countryC$104,683
Apportioned to the second countryC$43,317

Two countries tax slices of one gain: C$104,683 and C$43,317 on this apportionment. Where their taxing points differ — grant, vest, exercise or sale — the credit can arrive in a year the other country is no longer taxing, which is the mismatch to plan around. That is an illustration of the mechanism, not a prediction about your file — the same computation on your figures is the first thing we do.

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.

The numbers, end to end

The arithmetic is more persuasive than the description, so:

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$119,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 22% on it and the home country would charge 39% on the same amount.

Credit relief on one stream of income
ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$119,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 22%)C$26,180
Home tax on the same income (assumed 39%)C$46,410
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$26,180
Home tax still payableC$20,230

The credit absorbs C$26,180 and leaves C$20,230 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. The shape of that result holds; the size of it depends entirely on your own numbers and dates.

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.

The four steps

  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
  • Nothing is filed until you have read it.
  • A change of scope is re-quoted before the work, never added to the invoice after it.
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.

Your next step

Send us the facts and we will tell you what has to be filed and what it costs.

Reviewed 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.

Where international tax consultant comes into this file

Readers arrive here searching for international tax consultant, and management consultants: what you owe in each country is what the page is about. Below: who it catches, what has to be filed, and what it costs — quoted in writing, before anything is done.

How the engagement runs, phase by phase

  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.

  2. Fixed fee, defined scope, in writing

    Both agreed before work starts, so the engagement cannot grow into a larger bill.

  3. Prepared together, not passed between firms

    You are not the go-between for two sets of advisers working from two sets of assumptions.

  4. Reviewed, approved, filed

    A named practitioner checks it, you approve it, and then it goes.

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

Key terms behind this page, defined

FBAR
The report of foreign bank and financial accounts filed with the US financial-crimes bureau. It is tested on the aggregate of all foreign accounts at their highest point in the year.
Importer of record
The party legally responsible for an import, and therefore the party that can recover the import tax. Naming the wrong one strands the recovery.
Tax risk register
A ranked record of a group's exposures with quantum, mitigation and evidence, so a board can approve a position rather than discover one.
Foreign tax credit
A credit for income tax paid to another country against the domestic tax on the same income. It is computed by category and by country and capped by the domestic tax on that income.

The published fees closest to management consultants what you owe in each country

These fees cover the reconciliation as well as the filing: matching tax a host country has already taken against the credit the home return gives for it, in the year each side recognises the income. Where those years do not line up, the consultant's file carries an extra step, and the quote names it.

Corporate cross-border filing

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: The corporate return and its cross-border schedules as one engagement, so the group files a consistent position everywhere.

See this fee page

Transfer pricing documentation

$2,500fixed, before work starts

Covers: Documentation for transactions between related companies: the method, the comparables and the file an authority asks to see.

See this fee page

The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

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.

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.

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.

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 team reviewing a file together at a desk

How the engagement runs, phase by phase

Step 1

Establishing the facts

A first call to map the obligations across every country involved

Step 2

Agreeing the fee

A single fixed fee covering the whole set, agreed before we begin

Step 3

Drafting and review

Preparation in the order that makes the relief usable, with a reviewer's sign-off

Step 4

Filing and follow-up

You approve the finished work, and we file it

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

How the work runs — quote first, then the work

  • Step 1: Upload the file as it stands – A secure link arrives after the first call. Incomplete is fine; that is what the review is for.
  • Step 2: The number is settled up front – Priced from your own documents and confirmed in writing before any preparation begins.
  • Step 3: Both returns on one desk – One engagement covers every country the file touches, reconciled line against line.
  • Step 4: Your approval, then the filing – The return is yours to check first. We file once you say so.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Keep reading, sideways

Browse sideways: the pages below answer the neighbouring questions.

Services these clients use most

Local resident director services in Canada Resident director services Canada — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
GST/HST registration — for non-residents, indirect tax The full guide to indirect tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Inheriting property or money in India Its own page: inheriting property or money in India — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Digital nomad with no fixed residence Everything on digital nomad no fixed residence tax, at the same depth as this page.
Form 16 / 16A — TDS certificates (India) Form 16 / 16a India — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form 15CA — remitter declaration (India) The full guide to form 15ca India, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
GST/HST simplified registration — for non-residents Its own page: GST HST simplified registration non-resident — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Canadian with an offshore account Everything on Canadian with an offshore account, at the same depth as this page.
Treaty-based structuring reviews Treaty-based structuring reviews — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Who we bring this work to

Tax for individual athletes — tennis, golf Individual athletes — tennis, golf tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Business owners & founders cross-border tax The full guide to business owners & founders cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Cross-border truck drivers — your filing calendar Its own page: cross-border truck drivers your filing calendar — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Crypto traders — what we charge Everything on crypto traders what we charge, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for offshore vessel crew Offshore vessel crew tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Oil & gas rotational workers — what we charge The full guide to oil & gas rotational workers what we charge, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Twitch & live streamers — what you owe in each country Its own page: twitch & live streamers what you owe in each country — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Civil & structural engineers — what we charge Everything on civil & structural engineers what we charge, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for seasonal agricultural workers Seasonal agricultural workers tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Where our clients live and work

Senegal tax for expats — country guide Senegal tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Vietnam tax for expats — country guide The full guide to Vietnam tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Nigeria tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Nigeria tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
India–United Kingdom tax corridor Everything on India United Kingdom tax, at the same depth as this page.
Malaysia tax for expats — country guide Malaysia tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
US–Australia tax corridor The full guide to US Australia tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
US–UAE tax corridor Its own page: US UAE tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Jordan tax for expats — country guide Everything on jordan tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Portugal tax for expats — country guide Portugal tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

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

Cross-border situations we are engaged for

Case study 1

Residency Changed Mid-Year and Both Returns Assumed a Full One

A move part-way through a year produces two part-year positions, not two full ones. The engagement establishes the date residence actually changed, allocates income either side of it, and amends whichever return was filed on the wrong footing.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

A Canadian Working in the US on a Work Visa

Immigration status and tax residence are different tests, and a visa says nothing about which country taxes the salary. The file fixes residence, applies the employment article, and sequences the two returns so the credit lands where it is usable.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

A TFSA That Costs More Than It Saves

Canadian tax-free accounts are not tax-free to a US person, and some of them carry a reporting form of their own. The file is a review of what is held, what each account triggers on the US side, and whether the account is worth keeping once the reporting is priced in.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

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 5

An IRS Notice for a Year the Client Believed Was Settled

Most notices are proposals rather than assessments, and they carry a response window that is shorter than it looks. The engagement reads what is actually being proposed, gathers the support, and replies inside the window with the position rather than a request for time.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

Indian Rent Collected While Resident Somewhere Else

Rent from Indian property is taxed in India and again where you live, with relief on one side only. The file gets the Indian deduction right first, then claims the credit on the home return against what was actually paid.

Read how this one runs
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

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

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
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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

Management consultants — what you owe in each country — questions we are asked

What makes management consultants different from an ordinary filing?

Consultants furnishing services in a country for an extended period can create a service permanent establishment for their firm, and several treaties — India's among them — apply that test at a low threshold. 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 a double tax treaty and what does it actually do?

It is an agreement between two countries that divides up the right to tax. Article by article it decides which country taxes employment income, dividends, interest, royalties, pensions, property and business profits — and where both may tax, it caps what the source country can withhold and tells the other to give credit. It also breaks residence ties and opens a government-to-government channel for disputes. What it never does is apply itself: a treaty position is claimed. See our treaty work.

How does the treaty tie-breaker work when both countries say I am resident?

As a sequence, stopping at the first test that gives an answer: where you have a permanent home available; if in both or neither, where your centre of vital interests is; then habitual abode; then nationality; and if all of those tie, the two tax authorities decide by agreement. It is evidential rather than elective — you do not choose your treaty residence, you demonstrate it, which makes the record of homes, family and time the substance of the claim. See tie-breaking dual residency.

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.

Can you review something another adviser prepared?

Yes, and that is a common engagement. A second opinion on a filed cross-border return most often finds an unclaimed credit, a missed information return, and a treaty position taken without the required disclosure.

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