Technology & SaaS: what we charge

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We prepare and file the cross-border returns technology & saas need — both countries handled together, on a fixed fee agreed in writing up front.

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Your own file sets the fee. Send it over, and a written quote arrives before anything is prepared.

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  • 18,000+ clients served
  • 15+ years of cross-border experience
In short

Software and subscription revenue is characterised differently across jurisdictions — as services, as royalties, or as a digital supply — and the characterisation changes both withholding and indirect tax.

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

Software and subscription revenue is characterised differently across jurisdictions — as services, as royalties, or as a digital supply — and the characterisation changes both withholding and indirect tax.

Start with the mechanism, not the form. 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.

Two of the firm’s advisers at a desk in the Delhi office

Fixed fees for technology & saas what we charge, agreed up front

What we charge a technology or SaaS company is set from the shape of the group: how many entities file, how many countries the engineers and the customers sit in, and whether subscription revenue has been characterised consistently across the contracts. You send the documents, the fee is agreed in writing, and then the work begins.

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

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

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

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Registrations, withholding and the employer obligations that follow staff working across a border, set up once and correctly.
See the fee schedule

Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

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

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

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

  • Some customers withhold tax on our invoices and others do not.
  • We have engineers in three countries and one corporate entity.
  • Our contracts were written domestically and we now sell globally.

That list is the reason this desk exists. Individually each question has an answer; together they need someone who holds both systems at once. See also Canadian with foreign inheritance.

The numbers, end to end

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

Equity that vests after the move

A grant worth C$104,000 at vest, over a 36-month vesting period, 24 months of which were worked in the first country and 12 in the second.

ItemAmount
Value at vestC$104,000
Vesting period (months)36
Months worked in the first country24
Months worked in the second country12
Apportioned to the first countryC$69,333
Apportioned to the second countryC$34,667

Two countries tax slices of one gain: C$69,333 and C$34,667 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. The shape of that result holds; the size of it depends entirely on your own numbers and dates.

An illustration, not a client file. The sums are chosen for legibility and the thresholds are stated for the example alone — nothing reaches a filing until it has been confirmed at source for your own year.

Worked through with figures

It is easier to see with numbers attached.

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$90,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 32% on it and the home country would charge 26% on the same amount.

ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$90,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 32%)C$28,800
Home tax on the same income (assumed 26%)C$23,400
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$23,400
Home tax still payableC$0

The credit fully absorbs the home liability on this income, so nothing further is payable at home — but the return still has to be filed and the credit still has to be claimed, by category and by country. Change any one of those inputs and the answer moves, which is why we run it on your own figures rather than on an illustration.

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.

How we handle it

  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
  • Documents move through an access-controlled portal rather than email.
  • We will tell you when you do not need us, and that call is free.
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.

Your next step

One call now is worth more than a filing season of guessing.

Reviewed against current guidance 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 — what this page covers

Most readers of this page are looking for international tax accountant. What follows sets out how it works for technology & SaaS: what we charge: who is caught by it, what has to be filed, and what the work costs, agreed before it begins.

From first contact to filed return

  1. Send what you already have

    Slips, statements, prior returns — in any order. We list what is still needed after reading them.

  2. A fee agreed in writing

    Quoted from those documents, before the work starts, and it does not move once you accept it.

  3. Each side drafted against the other

    The returns are built together rather than in sequence, so relief is claimed once and in the right country.

  4. You approve before it is filed

    The finished return comes to you first. Nothing is submitted on your behalf unseen.

How technology & saas what we charge 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

Departure tax
The tax on the deemed disposition triggered when residency ends. Which assets are inside it, and which keep their domestic tax hooks instead, is the whole planning question.
Earnings stripping
Rules limiting interest deductions by reference to earnings, operating alongside or instead of a debt-to-equity test.
CFC
Controlled foreign corporation — the US concept whose earnings in defined categories are taxed to US shareholders before distribution.
Foreign earned income
Wages and self-employment income for services performed outside the country. Only earned income qualifies for the US exclusion; investment income does not.

The published fees closest to technology & saas what we charge

A first year for a SaaS group usually costs more than the years after it, because the characterisation of the revenue and the withholding position have to be settled once and then only maintained. The band below is where an established file sits when nothing structural has changed.

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

Corporate cross-border filing

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: Corporate returns with foreign income, related-party reporting and cross-border structures, for companies of any size.

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

Why choose Legal Quotient for technology & saas what we charge

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.

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.

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.

You deal with the person who did the work

The practitioner who prepared and reviewed your file is the one who answers the question about it.

The team at work in the open-plan office

Technology & saas what we charge — the four phases

Step 1

Initial call

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

Step 2

Scope and fee

A written scope and a fixed fee before any work starts

Step 3

Preparation and review

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

Step 4

Filing and payment

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

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

The engagement, start to finish

  • Step 1: Share your documents – A secure upload link arrives after the first call — send files in any state.
  • Step 2: A written fixed fee – The quote is fixed from what you send; it does not move once accepted.
  • Step 3: Preparation, both sides at once – The returns are drafted together, reconciled line against line.
  • Step 4: Approve, then file – Nothing is filed until you have seen it and approved it.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Where to go next

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

Services these clients use most

Form 10FA / 10FB — TRC for Indian residents (India) Form 10fa / 10fb India — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
T1141 & T1142 trust reporting The full guide to t1141 & t1142 trust reporting, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Guarantee fee pricing Its own page: guarantee fee pricing — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Form 3CD — tax audit report (India) Everything on form 3cd India, at the same depth as this page.
Form 2553 — S-corporation election Form 2553 s corporation election — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
CPP/EI vs FICA for cross-border staff The full guide to cpp/ei vs fica for cross-border staff, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Indian resident with foreign assets (Schedule FA) Its own page: Indian resident with foreign assets schedule fa — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Canadian snowbird — the substantial presence test Everything on snowbird substantial presence test Canada, at the same depth as this page.
Form T1145 / T1146 — transfer pricing agreements T1145 t1146 transfer pricing agreements — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Who we bring this work to

Tax for day traders Day traders tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Cross-border real estate investors cross-border tax The full guide to cross-border real estate investors cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Freight forwarders cross-border tax Its own page: freight forwarders cross border tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Touring musicians — what you owe in each country Everything on touring musicians what you owe in each country, at the same depth as this page.
Architecture practices cross-border tax Architecture practices cross border tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Importers & exporters cross-border tax The full guide to importers & exporters cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Investors & property owners cross-border tax Its own page: investors & property owners cross border tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Tax for twitch & live streamers Everything on twitch & live streamers tax, at the same depth as this page.
Crypto traders — what we charge Crypto traders what we charge — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.

Countries and corridors this work reaches

Australia tax for expats — country guide Australia 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.
Ecuador tax for expats — country guide Its own page: ecuador tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
United States tax for expats — country guide Everything on United States tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
US–Australia tax corridor US Australia tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Canada–United Kingdom tax corridor The full guide to Canada United Kingdom tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tunisia tax for expats — country guide Its own page: tunisia 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.
Norway tax for expats — country guide Norway 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

Social Security Contributions Owed in Two Countries at Once

A totalization agreement assigns contributions to one system and exempts the other, but only against a certificate obtained in advance. Without it both sets come out of the same salary and neither is straightforward to recover.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

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 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

Coming Back to Canada After Years Abroad

Returning restarts Canadian residence and re-values what you own on the day you arrive. Foreign pensions, employer plans and accounts opened abroad each land differently, and the reporting thresholds are tested against the whole portfolio rather than each account.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

Whether the Year Made Someone an NRI

Indian residence is decided by presence tests applied to the financial year, and a single trip can change the answer for the whole of it. The status is established before any return or exemption is considered.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

Unreported Foreign Income Disclosed Before the CRA Asked

A voluntary disclosure has to be genuinely voluntary — once a letter arrives, the route usually closes. The engagement establishes whether the programme is still available, prepares the years, and puts the relief request in with the filing rather than after it.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

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 8

A Foreign Property Form Filed Late, With Penalties Running Daily

The foreign asset return carries a penalty that accrues per day rather than per return, so the exposure grows quietly. Relief is discretionary and it is granted on the reasons given, which means the request is the work rather than the form.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

How and where the work is delivered

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

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

  • 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

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.

  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

Technology & SaaS — what we charge — questions we are asked

What makes technology & saas different from an ordinary filing?

Software and subscription revenue is characterised differently across jurisdictions — as services, as royalties, or as a digital supply — and the characterisation changes both withholding and indirect tax. 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 NRIs pay tax on money sent to India?

Sending your own funds to India is a transfer of capital, not income, so the remittance itself is not taxed. What is taxable is income the money then earns in India — interest, rent, capital gains — under the rules for the account type it sits in. Sending money out of India is the direction that needs certification before the bank will act. See NRE, NRO and FCNR accounts.

Is double taxation legal?

Yes. Nothing prevents two countries from taxing the same income under their own domestic law — each is exercising its own jurisdiction. What treaties and credit systems do is relieve the outcome rather than prohibit the charge, and relief is generally something you must claim on a return or a form, not something applied automatically. Miss the claim and the double charge stands. Double taxation explains the mechanism.

Is there a minimum engagement?

No, but there is a minimum that makes sense: below a certain scope the honest answer is often that you can handle it yourself, and we will say so.

Do you charge for the first meeting?

No. The helpline is open 24 hours a day and the first call is free, and if the conclusion is that there is no work to do we tell you that on the call.

Tax terms explained

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What this costs

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A named reviewer on every filing

Ready to deal with technology & saas filing?

One short call, one fixed quote in writing, and your approval before anything is filed.

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  • Offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE
  • 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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