Provincal and state as pertaining to us/can tax tready - Expert Income Tax help on cross Border tax and immigration and divorce
My_question_is: Both question: I am dual citizen,currenty residing in CA.I work in Canada. Employer ducting fed/provicial tax at source. I understand I can file tax credit on US fed return. Question: will I be laiable for CA. state tax as well as Can provincial tax. If so can I avoid this If I declare Canda as my tax resident.(I own property,canadian corp with assets, earn income in Canada and have no investments in the US).(live on Can registered vessel in US)As a mariner I havenot eraned income in CA.for past five years.2010 will be first year for this situation. Thank-you ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
david ingram replies:
I am not even going to try and answer this in full.
You may have worked in Canada but at the moment you are working in the US and in California in particular. Your US citizenship is a tremendous advantage for your employer.
If you are berthed in California and a US citizen and being paid from Canada or Ethiopia or Brazil, you must file a US Federal 1040 and a California 540 or 540NR depending upon how long you have been there.
If you spent 10 months in California and 2 months in Oregon, you will be filing California 540NR and an Oregon 40N return
And, If you are there for the whole year, you will NOT be taxable in Canada and will be asking for all the Canadian tax back.
The good news is that California tax is higher than BC tax.
I say that tongue in cheek of course.
If you were in Seattle harbour, there would be no state tax and the tax would be lower.
The following is from my 1991 tax guide with some amendments but not many.
read it five or six times to get the idea about residency between Canada and the US
http://www.centa.com/staticpages/index.php/ToResideOrNotForIncomeTaxPurposes
Hope this helps.
You need to sit down by phone or in person with someone like myself to get it right.
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