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by Sara
Fri May 25, 2007 5:36 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Informal In-Trust Accounts
Replies: 5
Views: 4276

Informal In-Trust Accounts

I've been looking into informal in-trust accounts, explained briefly here at this government site: http://www.canlearn.ca/en/parent/save/findmoney/enc_kids_save/resp/iita.shtml This answers most of my questions, but I have a few lingering ones: - For the IRS, is form 3520 required for these kinds of...
by Sara
Fri May 11, 2007 8:14 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Form 8812
Replies: 2
Views: 2745

As I understand it, the stacking provisions apply after application of the standard deduction and personal exemption. I have seen numerous examples of these calculations on the Web -- am I mistaken? So, regarding the additional tax credit, we would need to subtract both of our 2555 excluded incomes....
by Sara
Thu May 10, 2007 6:55 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Form 8812
Replies: 2
Views: 2745

Form 8812

My spouse and I recently submitted our 2006 statement. I am a US citizen living in Canada. We filed a joint return. My husband's income slightly exceeded the FEIE threshold (mine did not). Bottom line is that we have about $6100 in US "income," though this is handled by regular deductions,...