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by basilfawlty
Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:48 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: TFSA Filing requirement
Replies: 4
Views: 3809

TFSA Filing requirement

Hello - question regarding foreign grantor trust filing requirement. I moved to the US this year and unfortunately due to timing didn't close my TFSA until about a month after moving. On the date of my move, I still had some securities in there, which I liquidated the day after moving to the US. Dis...
by basilfawlty
Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:48 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: L1-A move
Replies: 10
Views: 4406

Thank you this clarifies it. Makes sense. So one other approach in the case of being in a position where market value at time of the move was lower than the book value at time of move is to let the RRSP grow back to book value after moving to the US and then only at that point take the distribution ...
by basilfawlty
Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:06 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: L1-A move
Replies: 10
Views: 4406

Question regarding deferral of the gains and re-basing the book value. Confused around what the benefit of this is, which maybe is due to a confusion around what it means to file to defer gains in the US with form 8891. Is the difference that if you rebase the book value to current value of the asse...
by basilfawlty
Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:07 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Canadian CCPC
Replies: 1
Views: 1557

Canadian CCPC

Wondering if anyone knows what sort of penalties, if any, may be associated with not electing 25% Canadian resident directors to an Ontario Corporation in the event where a current sole director / 100% owner of the Ontario Corporation is no longer resident in Canada? I know that this is required. I ...