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- Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:11 pm
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: I Bonds at TreasuryDirect
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14858
I-Bonds
What if I lose my job and visa and have to move back to Canada? Do you think I have to cash in my I-Bonds or does the fact that I was a tax-resident when I purchased them mean that I can keep them?
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:37 pm
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: From which province did I depart?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2904
Thanks. As for the armed forces: of course there's a reason! Like all goverment agencies they are lazy, so they just ship out the Ontario version. Actually, the bases in Germany were little Ontarios: the schools had the Ontario curriculum. Actually, although the taxes were calculated for Ontario, no...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:05 pm
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: From which province did I depart?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2904
From which province did I depart?
I moved to the US on May 2, 2005. so I have to do both U.S. and Canadian tax returns. I had lived in Vancouver for many years, filing my T1 for BC residents annually like everybody else. I moved directly from Vancouver to San Francisco. Imagine my surprise when I received in my San Francisco mailbox...
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:56 pm
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Tax software for doing both Canadian and U.S returns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15394
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:23 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Tax software for doing both Canadian and U.S returns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15394
Tax software for doing both Canadian and U.S returns
I am trying to determine whether my reach exceeds my grasp, with respect to completing my taxes. I'm a Canadian citizen who moved to the California on May 2, 2005 to start work (TN1). Wife also Canadian but doesn't work (TD1). Plan to file 1040 as married joint. When I lived in Canada I always used ...
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:03 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Issues with new forum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5391
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:56 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: CDN living and working in the US on a TN
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3837
Do you mean that you have been getting a new TN1 visa every year with the same company? Can you not have them get you an H1B? I ask because I do not think you are making much progress towards a green card if you just get a new TN1 annually, especially because the border guard can turn you down on a ...
- Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:11 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: I Bonds at TreasuryDirect
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14858
- Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:25 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: I Bonds at TreasuryDirect
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14858
I Bonds at TreasuryDirect
A desperate question from one who fears inflation... A "U.S. Person" can invest up to $30K annually in a US savings bond that has an inflation-adjusted, real return. It's called an "I Bond". One opens an account directly with the US Treasury via a service called TreasuryDirect. (...
- Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:18 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Health Spending Accounts (HSA): brand new topic!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5667
Spoke to a chap at CRA Int'l Tax Svcs in Ottawa - just to change my mailing address, and I asked him. He had never heard of an HSA so he searched for few minutes on his database and came up with a blank. I think I'll invest in my HSA and let it go for now with CRA. I don't know how long I'll be in t...
- Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:27 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Health Spending Accounts (HSA): brand new topic!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5667
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:57 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Health Spending Accounts (HSA): brand new topic!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5667
Health Spending Accounts (HSA): brand new topic!
In 2003, President Bush signed the Medicare Modernization Act, which allowed working-age folks to get out of PPOs and HMOs by purchasing a high-deductible health insurance plan and also opening up a Health Spending Account, which allows up to approx. $5125 annual contributions. One may pay medical b...
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:42 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: keeping 401k and IRA after moving to canada
- Replies: 53
- Views: 46061
Norbert, are you able to give orders from Canada to TD Waterhouse USA to trade securities within your IRA or is TD Waterhouse USA only happy to mail you statements in Canada? (What with Ameritrade taking over TD Waterhouse USA, and TD taking over Ameritrade Canada, I'm sure everything will get all s...
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:31 am
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: IRAs and returning to Canada
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15380
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:55 pm
- Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
- Topic: Taxes on Canadian Government Strip Bonds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7316
Nelsona, thanks for the advice. I now understand the US situation quite well, but you've confused me on the Canadian one! In your first reply in this thread, you pointed out that CRA taxes Canadian residents via annual accrual on strips. That's why Canadian residents don't tend to own them in unshel...