Cross Border Tax Consultants

It is always wise to file tax return on time and ensure that the CRA receives accurate and comprehensive information. In fact, it isn't always the case! Many Canadian taxpayers are apprehensive about dealing with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). They might have knowingly submitted incorrect information on their tax returns or mistakenly left out income. Because of poor or incomplete record-keeping, they sometimes supply incomplete information on previous returns. The CRA has a voluntary disclosure programme to encourage Canadians who had engaged in such behaviour to come forward and successfully come clean. Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) has proven to be incredibly advantageous for taxpayers with undisclosed income or have been late in completing tax returns or information. Taxpayers who participate in the Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) can come forward without fear of facing penalties, and/or prosecution. If you have any previous tax-related issues, defaults or delinquen...

Are you incorporated? Great idea! You can access lower tax rates with your corporation and pay less tax. For more than ten years, Maroof HS CPA Professional Corporation has been productively aiding clients with their Canadian small business & corporate tax needs.     Who need to file a corporate tax return? All corporations, tax exempt, non-profit and inactive corporations, needs to file a tax return every year even if there’s no tax payable! It’s a criminal act not to file a corporate tax return. A non-resident corporation need to file a T2 return if, at any time in the year, it performed business in Canada, it had a taxable money gain, or in some scenarios, it disposed of taxable Canadian property. When do you need to file your corporate tax return? File your corporate income tax return inside 6 months of the end of every tax year. The tax year of a corporation is its financial period. When the tax year of the corporation ends on the last day of a month, file the corpor...

    Canadians love the warm weather of Florida and California. This is the reason lot of Canadians do own the properties in the U.S. If they are not living there, they are holding it for investment purposes. There are many income tax issues Canadians should b aware of while selling their U.S. properties. For a detailed information on the tax issues involved with sale of U.S. properties, read here . • Under Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act aka FIRTPA, the buyers are required to withhold 15% of the sale price and remit to IRS. There are exception involved, for more details refer to the link mentioned above. • A U.S. ITIN also known as US TIN or individual income tax number is needed whenever a US property is sold to ensure withholding taxes are credited to right account by the IRS. An ITIN is also needed when the seller want a reduced withholding rate. • Seller must file a U.S. federal tax return. For this purpose form 1040NR is used to report gain or loss. FIRTPA...

When it comes to moving to a foreign country, there’re many tax concerns that has to be reassessed which could significantly impact your cash flow position at the move. Every resident of Canada is subject to Canadian income tax on his or her own worldwide income. That means that a Canadian resident has to report not just their Canadian source income, but also all other sources of income from outside Canada. When emigrating from Canada , you will become a non-resident of Canada by filing a final Canadian income tax return for the year of emigration, also known as emigrant tax return. If this is the scenario, you’d no longer be needed to pay income tax on any income that are foreign sourced O(after emigration). You’ll still be needed to pay Canadian income tax on particular Canadian sourced income, which will be dependent on the country in which you want to dwell and the treaty between that country and Canada.   Filing a departure income tax return for the year of immigration can be...

  This is very common for the employers to avoid expenses by asking their employees to sign contracts as corporations in Canada. If you are an IT professional in Canada and your employer has asked you to incorporate a business and sign the contract, you must know the tax implications of these decisions. When a corporation has an incorporated-employee who performs services on its behalf, it is called Personal Services Business (PSB) as per Income Tax Act in Canada. First, see if your relationship is of employee or independent contactor with the business for whom you are providing these services. IF the relationship is of employment nature, your corporation will be a PSB. If the relationship is of independent contractor, you have an active business income. Now, determining whether the relationship is employee or contractor, is a fact based exercise. Simply signing a contract and saying it is a contractor is not enough. A brilliant article written by Maroof H. Sabri provides a basic...