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1. Not true.
2. The escrow agent will withhold 10% of the sale price for federaltaxpurposes and 3.5% for California tax purposes and give you the balanceright away UNLESS
a - the house is being bought as a personal residence by someone and isless than $300,000 or
b - you have written to the International Tax Office of the IRS amndsubmitted documentation which proves that you did not make a profit orthe 10% would be too much. The IRS will send a certificate statingthat no withholding is required or stating an amount. Canada has amuch more onerous set of withholdings. Our withholding is 25% unlessforms 2062 and 2062A are submitted to the CRA and a comfort certificateis issued allowing a smaller withholding.
If you have either a or b above, you will get all of your money rightaway.
3. If there is no profit, there is no tax in the US. Sometimes,there is a profit in Canada because of exchange or vice versa. Inother words, you could have made a profit int he USA and owe tax andstill have a very real loss in Canadian funds for Canada. That hasbeen true int eh last three years.
The reverse was true from 90 to 95 to 2004 . You could have lost moneyin the US and still owe tax to Canada because of the very real rise inthe value of the US dollar.
The same situation applies to 43 other states. Hawaii, for instance,withholds 5%. California and Vermont (2 of many) have Alternativeminimum tax calculations. California does its calculation based uponyiour world income. Vermont just uses US income.
Every state is different although some are just about the same.
1. Not true.
2. The escrow agent will withhold 10% of the sale price for federaltaxpurposes and 3.5% for California tax purposes and give you the balanceright away UNLESS
a - the house is being bought as a personal residence by someone and isless than $300,000 or
b - you have written to the International Tax Office of the IRS amndsubmitted documentation which proves that you did not make a profit orthe 10% would be too much. The IRS will send a certificate statingthat no withholding is required or stating an amount. Canada has amuch more onerous set of withholdings. Our withholding is 25% unlessforms 2062 and 2062A are submitted to the CRA and a comfort certificateis issued allowing a smaller withholding.
If you have either a or b above, you will get all of your money rightaway.
3. If there is no profit, there is no tax in the US. Sometimes,there is a profit in Canada because of exchange or vice versa. Inother words, you could have made a profit int he USA and owe tax andstill have a very real loss in Canadian funds for Canada. That hasbeen true int eh last three years.
The reverse was true from 90 to 95 to 2004 . You could have lost moneyin the US and still owe tax to Canada because of the very real rise inthe value of the US dollar.
The same situation applies to 43 other states. Hawaii, for instance,withholds 5%. California and Vermont (2 of many) have Alternativeminimum tax calculations. California does its calculation based uponyiour world income. Vermont just uses US income.
Every state is different although some are just about the same.
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1. Not true.
2. The escrow agent will withhold 10% of the sale price for federaltaxpurposes and 3.5% for California tax purposes and give you the balanceright away UNLESS
a - the house is being bought as a personal residence by someone and isless than $300,000 or
b - you have written to the International Tax Office of the IRS amndsubmitted documentation which proves that you did not make a profit orthe 10% would be too much. The IRS will send a certificate statingthat no withholding is required or stating an amount. Canada has amuch more onerous set of withholdings. Our withholding is 25% unlessforms 2062 and 2062A are submitted to the CRA and a comfort certificateis issued allowing a smaller withholding.
If you have either a or b above, you will get all of your money rightaway.
3. If there is no profit, there is no tax in the US. Sometimes,there is a profit in Canada because of exchange or vice versa. Inother words, you could have made a profit int he USA and owe tax andstill have a very real loss in Canadian funds for Canada. That hasbeen true int eh last three years.
The reverse was true from 90 to 95 to 2004 . You could have lost moneyin the US and still owe tax to Canada because of the very real rise inthe value of the US dollar.
The same situation applies to 43 other states. Hawaii, for instance,withholds 5%. California and Vermont (2 of many) have Alternativeminimum tax calculations. California does its calculation based uponyiour world income. Vermont just uses US income.
Every state is different although some are just about the same.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------david ingram replies:
1. Not true.
2. The escrow agent will withhold 10% of the sale price for federaltaxpurposes and 3.5% for California tax purposes and give you the balanceright away UNLESS
a - the house is being bought as a personal residence by someone and isless than $300,000 or
b - you have written to the International Tax Office of the IRS amndsubmitted documentation which proves that you did not make a profit orthe 10% would be too much. The IRS will send a certificate statingthat no withholding is required or stating an amount. Canada has amuch more onerous set of withholdings. Our withholding is 25% unlessforms 2062 and 2062A are submitted to the CRA and a comfort certificateis issued allowing a smaller withholding.
If you have either a or b above, you will get all of your money rightaway.
3. If there is no profit, there is no tax in the US. Sometimes,there is a profit in Canada because of exchange or vice versa. Inother words, you could have made a profit int he USA and owe tax andstill have a very real loss in Canadian funds for Canada. That hasbeen true int eh last three years.
The reverse was true from 90 to 95 to 2004 . You could have lost moneyin the US and still owe tax to Canada because of the very real rise inthe value of the US dollar.
The same situation applies to 43 other states. Hawaii, for instance,withholds 5%. California and Vermont (2 of many) have Alternativeminimum tax calculations. California does its calculation based uponyiour world income. Vermont just uses US income.
Every state is different although some are just about the same.
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$1,700 would be for two people with income from two countries
Catch - up returns for the US where we use theCanadian return as a guide for seven years at a time will be from $150to$600.00 per year depending upon numbers of bank accounts, RRSP's,existence of rental houses, self employment, etc. Note that thesereturns tend to be informational rather than taxable. In fact, ifthere are children involved, we usually get refunds of $1,000 per childper year for 3 years. We have done several catch-ups where the clienthas recieved as much as $6,000 back for an $1,800 bill and one recentlywith 6 children is resulting in over $12,000 refund.
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This is not intended to be definitivebut in general I am quoting $900 to $3,000 for a dual country taxreturn.
$900 would be one T4 slip one W2 slipone or two interest slips and you lived in one country only (but werefiling both countries) - no self employment or rentals or capital gains- you did not move into or out of the country in this year.
$1,200 would be the same with onerental
$1,300 would be the same with onebusiness no rental
$1,300 would be the minimum with amove in or out of the country. These are complicated because of theback and forth foreign tax credits. - The IRS says a foreign tax credittakes 1 hour and 53 minutes.
$1,600 would be the minimum with arental or two in the country you do not live in or a rental and abusiness and foreign tax credits no move in or out
$1,700 would be for two people with income from two countries
$3,000 would be all of the above andyou moved in and out of the country.
This is just a guideline for US /Canadian returns
We will still prepare Canadian only(lives in Canada, no US connection period) with two or three slips andno capital gains, etc. for $200.00 up.
With a Rental for $400, two or threerentals for $550 to $700 (i.e. $150 per rental) First year Rental -plus $250.
A Business for $400 - Rental andbusiness likely $550 to $700
And an American only (lives in the USwith no Canadian income or filing period) with about the same things inthe same range with a little bit more if there is a state return.
Moving in or out of the country orpart year earnings in the US will ALWAYS be $900 and up.
TDF 90-22.1 forms are $50 for thefirst and $25.00 each after that when part of a tax return.
8891 forms are generally $50.00 to$100.00 each.
18 RRSPs would be $900.00 - (maybeamalgamate a couple)
Capital gains *sales) are likely$50.00 for the first and $20.00 each after that.
Catch - up returns for the US where we use theCanadian return as a guide for seven years at a time will be from $150to$600.00 per year depending upon numbers of bank accounts, RRSP's,existence of rental houses, self employment, etc. Note that thesereturns tend to be informational rather than taxable. In fact, ifthere are children involved, we usually get refunds of $1,000 per childper year for 3 years. We have done several catch-ups where the clienthas recieved as much as $6,000 back for an $1,800 bill and one recentlywith 6 children is resulting in over $12,000 refund.
This is aguideline not etched in stone. If you doyour own TDF-90 forms, it is to your advantage. However, if we put themin the first year, the computer carries them forward beautifully.
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