Reasonably priced Cross-border tax for shopify & dtc brands

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Cross-border tax filing for shopify & dtc brands, planned and filed from one desk, at a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts. Ask us about reasonably priced cross-border tax for shopify & dtc brands: call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068, or request a written fixed quote today.

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In short

Direct-to-consumer sales put the tax determination on the seller rather than a marketplace, so place-of-supply, threshold monitoring and registration all become the brand's own compliance function.

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

Direct-to-consumer sales put the tax determination on the seller rather than a marketplace, so place-of-supply, threshold monitoring and registration all become the brand's own compliance function.

The rule underneath it looks like this. 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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What shopify & dtc brands cross border tax costs here

For a Shopify or direct-to-consumer brand the fee follows the footprint: how many countries your third-party logistics provider holds stock in, and how many registrations that has already triggered. With no marketplace collecting on your behalf, place-of-supply and threshold monitoring become your own function, and that is what is being priced.

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Corporate compliance for a group that trades or holds assets in more than one country, prepared on both sides together.
See the fee schedule

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.
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

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

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

Non-resident filings and the two part-year returns a move produces, sequenced so neither country taxes the same income twice.
See the fee schedule

Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Late and unfiled years, sequenced and filed together, with the relief available for the delay identified before the first return goes in.
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 — one page, every published fee, nothing quoted as a vague bracket.

Three things we hear on the first call

  • No marketplace is collecting for me and I am not sure what I owe where.
  • My third-party logistics provider holds stock in several countries.
  • My returns and refunds are not being reflected in any tax filing.

We hear versions of all three most weeks. The confusion is structural rather than personal: nothing in either system is designed to explain the other. See also foreign affiliate structure review.

What this looks like with numbers

Put numbers against it and the shape of the answer is obvious.

Where a registration obligation actually starts

An online seller with C$569,000 of sales across 4 markets. Assume the largest market takes C$307,260 of that and assume a registration test of C$48,000 in that market.

ItemAmount
Total salesC$569,000
Markets sold into4
Sales in the largest marketC$307,260
Assumed registration test thereC$48,000
Registration required in that market?Yes

One market crosses its own test, so registration and collection start there on the trigger date — and the other 3 markets are tested separately, on their own rules. Registering in one does nothing for the next. Your version of this table is the useful one, and it takes a short call and a document pack to produce.

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 arithmetic, worked through

The arithmetic is more persuasive than the description, so:

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$174,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 25% on it and the home country would charge 42% on the same amount.

ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$174,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 25%)C$43,500
Home tax on the same income (assumed 42%)C$73,080
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$43,500
Home tax still payableC$29,580

The credit absorbs C$43,500 and leaves C$29,580 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. 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.

Example figures throughout, selected to make the rule visible, with rates and thresholds assumed for the demonstration. Your actual filing uses figures confirmed with the issuing authority for your tax year.

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.
  • Consultations scheduled to your working day rather than ours.
  • We will tell you when you do not need us, and that call is free.

Where to go from here

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. General guidance only. Your own facts decide the answer, so bring them to a call before relying on this.

Cross border tax compliance, in practice

This is the page to read on cross border tax compliance. It takes cross-border tax for shopify & dtc brands in order — the test that decides who is affected, the returns and forms that follow from it, and a fee quoted in writing before anything starts.

From first contact to filed return

  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.

What you are actually buying with shopify & dtc brands cross border tax

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

NR7-R
The Canadian application to refund non-resident withholding tax collected above the treaty or statutory rate.
Reverse charge
A mechanism shifting the obligation to account for tax from the foreign supplier to the local business customer.
NRI
Non-resident Indian: an individual who is not resident in India under its day-count tests. NRIs are taxed by India only on Indian-source income, usually collected at source before any exemption.
Branch
A foreign operation that is the same legal person as the head office, so its results consolidate — at the cost of exposing the parent to the foreign system.

The published fees closest to shopify & dtc brands cross border tax

The second driver is the state of the data. Where returns and refunds have never been reflected in a filing, those periods have to be rebuilt from platform and payment exports before anything can be corrected, and the number of past periods in scope sets the remainder of the fee.

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.

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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

Individual tax filing

$349fixed, before work starts

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

See this fee page

The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

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.

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.

18,000+ clients served

Individuals, expats and corporations across India, the USA, Canada and the UAE have filed with us — 15+ years of cross-border work.

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 team reviewing a file together at a desk

Shopify & dtc brands cross border tax — the four phases

Step 1

Establishing the facts

A call to our 24-hour helpline to establish the facts and the dates that matter

Step 2

Agreeing the fee

A written scope and a fixed fee before any work starts

Step 3

Drafting and review

Preparation, then a named reviewer's sign-off before anything is filed

Step 4

Filing and follow-up

Filing, then payment — after you have seen and approved the result

The team at work in the open-plan office

The engagement, start to finish

  • 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

Each of these carries its own guide, pricing pointers and FAQ.

Core services for this situation

Quiet disclosure — why not to Quiet disclosure why not — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Form T1-ADJ — adjustment request The full guide to t1-adj adjustment request, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Section 85 — rollover on incorporation Its own page: section 85 rollover on incorporation — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Form A2 — LRS remittance (India) Everything on form a2 India, at the same depth as this page.
Hybrid entities & mismatches Hybrid entities & mismatches — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Payroll for a foreign employee in Canada The full guide to payroll for a foreign employee in Canada, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Canada–India DTAA explained Its own page: Canada India DTAA explained — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Trusts before becoming a resident Everything on trusts before becoming a resident, at the same depth as this page.
Non-resident with Canadian dividends or interest Non-resident Canadian dividends interest — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Who we help

Amazon FBA sellers — relief you're probably missing Amazon fba sellers relief you're probably missing — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Tax for twitch & live streamers The full guide to twitch & live streamers tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Food & beverage brands cross-border tax Its own page: food & beverage brands cross border tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Tax for models Everything on models tax, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for non-resident landlords Non-resident landlords tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Engineering firms cross-border tax The full guide to engineering firms cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for defence contractors Its own page: defence contractors tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Tax for franchise owners Everything on franchise owners tax, at the same depth as this page.
Tax for individual athletes — tennis, golf Individual athletes — tennis, golf tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Where our clients live and work

Morocco tax for expats — country guide Morocco tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Israel tax for expats — country guide The full guide to Israel tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
India–Singapore tax corridor Its own page: India Singapore tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Slovenia tax for expats — country guide Everything on slovenia tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Belgium tax for expats — country guide Belgium tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Panama tax for expats — country guide The full guide to panama tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Ireland tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Ireland tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Uganda tax for expats — country guide Everything on uganda tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Senegal tax for expats — country guide Senegal 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 tax case studies

Case study 1

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
Case study 2

Expanding Abroad — Branch or Subsidiary, Decided on the Numbers

The choice sets the tax on profits, the treatment of early losses, and what it costs to take money home later. The file models all three across the first years rather than deciding on the incorporation cost alone.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

One Employee Working From Another Country

A single remote employee can create payroll registration, withholding and social security obligations in their country, and sometimes a corporate presence too. The review sets out each obligation and the order they have to be registered in.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

An Adjustment in One Country and No Relief in the Other

A pricing adjustment taxes the same profit twice unless the other country makes a corresponding one. The mutual agreement route is what produces that relief, and it is opened on a timetable set by the treaty rather than by either revenue authority.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

Branch or Subsidiary, Decided Before Incorporation

The choice changes where profits are taxed, what has to be filed, and whether losses in the early years are usable. It is difficult to reverse once trading has begun, so it is modelled first.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

A Canadian Landlord With Property in the United States

Gross withholding on US rents takes no account of mortgage interest, tax or repairs, so a leveraged property can face tax on turnover. An election onto net basis fixes that, and it has its own timing and its own filing.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

Inheriting Property in India While Living Abroad

India does not tax the inheritance itself, but the later sale and the money leaving the country both have positions of their own. The file establishes the cost base to use on that sale and what the remittance will require.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

Two Wills, Two Jurisdictions, One Estate

A will drawn for one country can revoke another or fail to reach assets held abroad. The review checks how each instrument interacts with the other and where probate will actually be required.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

How and where the work is delivered

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

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

Technology & SaaS

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.

  • 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

Shopify & DTC brands cross-border tax — questions we are asked

What makes shopify & dtc brands different from an ordinary filing?

Direct-to-consumer sales put the tax determination on the seller rather than a marketplace, so place-of-supply, threshold monitoring and registration all become the brand's own compliance function. 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.

Do Canada and the United States share tax information?

Yes, through more than one channel. The treaty has an exchange-of-information article that supports both routine and on-request exchange. Separately, an intergovernmental agreement has Canadian financial institutions identify US-reportable accounts and report them to the CRA, which passes them to the IRS, with the reverse flow for Canadian residents. Most other country pairs use the Common Reporting Standard for the same purpose. See FATCA reporting.

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.

Do you sign the return as preparer?

Where the filing requires a preparer identification, yes. The named reviewer appears on the advice either way, so you always know who stands behind the position.

Can a large engagement be split into stages?

For multi-year engagements, yes, agreed alongside the scope: each stage gets its own written number, and nothing outside the agreed stages is done without a new quote.

Tax terms explained

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How is a shopify & dtc brands business taxed across borders?
15+ years of cross-border experience

Shopify & dtc brands filing, quoted before we start

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