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by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:09 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Pre- US naturalization but return to Canada: Should I do it?
Replies: 9
Views: 4797

I see that NIIT is an Obamacare tax.
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:29 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Pre- US naturalization but return to Canada: Should I do it?
Replies: 9
Views: 4797

Never even heard of it! So far, the TFSA is the one that gies me pause. I wonder if that is just a question of time lag.
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 2:44 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Pre- US naturalization but return to Canada: Should I do it?
Replies: 9
Views: 4797

That is great information. Thank you.
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:48 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Pre- US naturalization but return to Canada: Should I do it?
Replies: 9
Views: 4797

Actually, I think I made an error in my initial post. If I am a US citizen resident in Canada, do I file a 1040NR or a 1040?
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:42 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Pre- US naturalization but return to Canada: Should I do it?
Replies: 9
Views: 4797

Pre- US naturalization but return to Canada: Should I do it?

I appreciate that this is a question which nobody can definitively answer, because there are a lot of personal choices that can't really be assessed by strangers. Nevertheless, it may draw out a few facts that would help. I am a Canadian citizen who moved to US in 2005 and now have green card. Sched...
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:27 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Other 1040/NR obstacles
Replies: 10
Views: 5522

Can one just rigwrite "ZILCH"? (kidding.)
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:23 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Tax compare btw Canada and US
Replies: 7
Views: 5318

I see you have included state income tax. However, you have not included sales tax/GST. In the U.S. state sales tax is between zero and eight or nine percent, and no federla GST. In Canada, the combined rate is about fifteen percent, right? So, I think you have to look at consumption taxes as well a...
by worryfreeinvestor
Wed Jan 08, 2014 6:28 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Commuting daily across border: Where taxable
Replies: 1
Views: 1370

Commuting daily across border: Where taxable

I have not quite seen this situation in the threads: Joe is a citizen of Canada and a citizen of the U.S. He lives in Blaine, WA and works as an independent contractor for a firm in Surrey, BC. The firm pays him gross. He goes that office (in Canada) to work. To be clear: Every night, he sleeps in B...
by worryfreeinvestor
Wed Aug 28, 2013 9:36 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Converting RRSP to RIFF for US Resident
Replies: 18
Views: 15338

RRSP: Waiting until age 70

This question is not really a cross-border issue. It would be relevant to a Canadian resident too. CPP is adjusted for inflation but it's not clear to me whether the benefit from deferring until age 70 is also adjusted for inflation. For example, suppose I log into Service Canada as I approach my 65...
by worryfreeinvestor
Wed Aug 28, 2013 9:26 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: RRSP and 1099-DIV dividends!
Replies: 8
Views: 7538

I'd recommend switching RRSPs to TD Waterhouse. They've never asked me for a W-9 or issued a 1099-DIV or withheld tax on my RRSP.
by worryfreeinvestor
Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:01 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Canadian Spousal Annuitant on RRIF
Replies: 11
Views: 7307

RRIF

OK: He files married filing separately. She doesn't file at all. I still don't see how or why the IRS can lay a hand on his widow as long as they never move to the U.S.
by worryfreeinvestor
Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:50 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Converting RRSP to RIFF for US Resident
Replies: 18
Views: 15338

RRSP

I see: I can't imagine a scenario in which a taxable U.S. resident would try to put income in to an RRSP rather than an IRA, 401(k), or other U.S. tax-deferred vehicle.
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:53 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Canadian Spousal Annuitant on RRIF
Replies: 11
Views: 7307

RRIF

Why would your Canadian wife have any implications from your backfiling U.S. taxes? Perhaps you should file as a single non-resident rather than married filing jointly? If your wife lives in Canada is not a U.S. citizen, her income and assets are of no interest to the IRS - even less so once you hav...
by worryfreeinvestor
Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:45 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Converting RRSP to RIFF for US Resident
Replies: 18
Views: 15338

RRSP TD Waterhouse

I try never to disagree with nelsona, but I'd be very surprised if a non-resident could open an RRSP at TD Waterhouse or anywhere else, because a non-resident cannot make contributions to an RRSP. That being said, when I left Canada in 2005 to move to the U.S., I left my RRSP with TD Waterhouse. Sin...
by worryfreeinvestor
Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:01 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Depositing U.S. dollar check drawn on CDN bank into U.S bank
Replies: 16
Views: 9587

US$ check on Canadian bank

Amerinuck, when you deposit a US$ check drawn on a US$ account at a bank in Canada into your US bank, do they charge you a fee to accept the deposit? Or do they treat it lik any other US$ check from a US bank? To be precise, if I have a US$ checking account at Bank of Montreal at my branch in Ottawa...