Too late to file a Departure Tax Return with CRA?

[kvlstr]

Hi,

I left Canada and moved to the USA. That was November 1998. I didn't know about filing a final return in Canada, I just up and left. I didn't have a wife or kids then, didn't own property, didn't maintain an apartment there, etc.

I did file a US return for 1998, for the six weeks or so that I earned income there that year. I've filed in the US every year since, of course.

I have lived in America continuously since 1998, and became a US citizen in 2007. My only residential tie to Canada is a passport.

I don't expect to live in Canada again, but I'd like to have the option.

Is there a procedure for people like me, with the CRA?

Do I need a lawyer? If so, what kind?

[nelsona]

Don't worry. There is neither anything you can do, nor anything CRA can do.

None of this would have any impact on your return to Canada.