Hi David,
My wife and I have already decided to hire you to do our 2006 tax return,
but we still have a few questions.
First, some background, we are both Canadian and we moved to USA on January
1, 2001. We got our Green card on March 2001. We both work and we do have
401K as well as Roth IRA and IRA.
We want to move back to Canada for our retirement on December 31st, 2006.
First question: when do we need to hire you to ensure that we do the right
things before we leave USA on December 2006?
Second group of questions:
while retired in Canada, I intend to do some consulting work in both USA and
Canada. Mandates could go from a couple of days to a couple of months,
living close to where the mandate work is located.
Is it better and easier to take those consulting jobs as a self-employed
individual or should I create a corporation?
Will I need any visa to work in USA as a self-employed individual?
Is it something that you can help me with when the time comes?
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david ingram replies:
I charge $400 Cdn per hour for consultations. However, this deserves a
quick reply.
If you have green cards and you intend to keep on working in the USA, you
must, should take out your US citizenship first.
It will make it 1000 times easier to continue to work in the USA.
Otherwise, you will have to get an individual visa for each contract you
take on.
I would recommend that you e a proprietorship 88% of the time.
An exception would be if the only way you can get a valuable contract is to
be a corporation (B C Hydro as one example).
In that case, you would use the corporation for that job and go back to
being a proprietorship as soon as possible.
Hope this helps.
david
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