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OK, so it sounds like the 8891 completely superseded all the painful and confusing instructions in effect before it existed. Thank you!

Thanks for clarifying the RRSP book value point.

Thank you, nelsona, for the reassurance, I appreciate it. Are you certain about the "never", though? For my second conversation with the IRS, I had the good fortune to be talking to someone decidedly more authoritative than the IRS front-liners (who were responsible for the earlier bad adv...

I have a question regarding the old-style deferral-election letters which seemed like it might be somewhat relevant to this thread. We moved to the US at the very end of 1989. The first year we had to file a US tax return, I called the IRS and was told we did not need to do anything about our Canadi...