Enhanced dividend tax credit in Canada

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mchuchra
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Enhanced dividend tax credit in Canada

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Hello,
Canadian residents can take advantage of the "enhanced dividend tax credit." (i.e., the effective Canadian marginal tax rate for eligible dividends is quite a bit lower than the marginal tax rate for employment income, interest and foreign dividends. It is also lower than the marginal tax rate for capital gains, but only to a certain level of taxable income.). How does that work for US/Canadian cross-border individuals (i.e., individuals filing both US and Canadian taxes)? In other words, I am wondering whether the benefit of the lower effective tax rate (for example, on dividends paid by Canadian bank stocks held in a non-registered account in a Canadian brokerage account) relative to bank account interest income would be negated/lost when filing US tax returns?
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Re: Enhanced dividend tax credit in Canada

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It isn't "lost", however, you do have less Cdn tax to use against the US tax you owe on those foreign dividends. The US taxrate is usually low enough not to matter however.
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