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Thanks again. Meanwhile, the relative called Chrysler Canada (I'd called Chrysler USA) and Chrysler Canada said essentially the same as you.

Thanks, Nelson, I was unnerved by this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090516073950AAtHyh9 so I phoned Chrysler USA and they said we should "submit a case" - that a family transfer *might* be OK but they couldn't guarantee this, and there's no way of getting a determination ...

[quote="MIKE2000Z28"]How come its written if any of your foreign accounts have 10k at any one time. None of my accounts have ever had 10k in them at any one time. I have one account at lets say 2k, one at 8k, and one at like 300 bucks. So i would have to list all 3 of those accounts even t...

Yes, if they add up to over $10K US at any time during the year, you have to file. As to what to do about neglected past filings, I don't know.

An elderly relative up in Canada is offering us their car for next to nothing. It's an eight year old Chrysler, well maintained with low mileage. This offer is appealing because we have a 16 year old about to take their driver's license test. We were figuring we'd have to try to acquire a cheap seco...

If the Canadian institution is paying the money to the US institution, on what grounds could they possibly issue YOU a T4?

Back in the 90s an old friend, a Canadian citizen who had somewhat impulsively married an American and moved to the US a year or so before, suffered a marital breakdown and in consequence had to return home to BC. The marital breakdown was not unconnected with a flare-up in our friend's long-standin...

There is a substantial benefit to being a nonresident of Canada for tax purposes, since US income tax is less than Canadian, for most taxpayers. Furthermore, you ARE now a nonresident of Canada. This is straightforward. You have been in the US, working on TN since mid-2007 and you don't (I presume) ...

I have passport, bank account, credit card, as do most expats, surely. About the car registration, now. If you own a vehicle that's actually in Canada (in storage or loaned to a friend or relative?) I very much doubt that would count as a residency tie. However, is it possible that you brought the c...

Your overall question is difficult, which is probably why nobody has answered. I'll offer a few comments but I can't provide figures. About church donations: Churches in Canada are normally [i]registered charities[/i], similar to a 501(c)(3) in the USA. The CRA (Canadian Revenue Agency, equivalent t...

You don't actually have an option of maintaining Canadian tax residency in your situation, and there's no reason you should want to. You should have notified your bank and investment firm of your new location, so that they would deal with you correctly as a US resident. Your BC driver's licence was ...

The Globe and Mail Report on Business has a regular feature "Financial Facelift" which gives a family's financial details and offers advice. Today's installment is entitled "Expats face tangle of tax laws to retire in the U.S." at [url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story...

I agree with Nelson. Those fees seem pretty normal for your spouse's AOS alone.

Does anyone know of any reasonable alternative to TD Waterhouse for US residents' RRSPs? I'm so angry with them I need to vent. As reported in my previous post, I called TDW in late November, 2007 and they mailed me the application forms for US residents. I filled in the forms and mailed them in on ...

Wow, WFI, your employer's after-the-fact cost-splitting seems really obnoxious.

In my case, my employer paid all costs for two sets of L1 (me) and L2 (spouse and child), plus green cards for all three of us.

Like Nelson, we applied by ourselves for some EADs, and paid for those.