Hello,
Here's our situation. We moved to the US on L-1/L-2 visa in Dec 2015. And we are filing 1040NR for our US returns. All sound perfect, until it came to the Canadian part.
Firstly, we don't have any residential ties with Canada, no house, nothing. So that looks like in Dec 2015 we definitely became non-resident of Canada.
However, in US we filed as non-resident (1040NR), and according to the CRA website, if we lived in Canada for more than 183 days of the year, we need to file as deemed resident, and we need to file our US source income even after we became non-resident. It is quite some amount, because my relo money was paid in Dec 2015.
I even tried to get accountants to file my Canadian tax for me, but they are telling different stories too, which confuses me even more :S
Could you guys please help me? What should I file?
1. Departure tax return until our departure date?
2. Or whole-year Canadian return as a deemed resident?
Moved to US Dec 2015, deemed resident or non-resident?
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