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Strafford – Form 8621 PFIC Presentation January 5, 2017

I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking in an upcoming Strafford live webinar, “Form 8621 PFIC Reporting: Navigating the Highly Complex IRS Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules” scheduled for Thursday, January 5, 1:00pm-2:50pm EST. Because of your affiliation with my firm, you ...

Strafford PFIC Presentation – Additional Information

On January 5, 2017, together with Strafford Publications, Steven Flynn will be presenting on Passive Foreign Investment Companies. In his section of the presentation, Steven will discuss information and tools to help you complete IRS Form 8621 – Information Return by a Shareholder of a ...

Non-residents Selling Canadian Real Property

Monday May 1st is generally the filing tax deadline in Canada for individuals for the 2016 year1. It is also 8 days away from a provincial election in British Columbia. One of the many issues politicians face in urban centers in BC is housing, both ...

IRS Actions to Solve Non-Compliance of Canadians Earning US Rental Income

In August, the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a final report #2017-30-048 entitled “Additional Controls Are Needed to Help Ensure That Non-resident Alien Individual Property Owners Comply with Tax Laws”1. While the TIGTA needs to work on their titles2, the report ...

Death and Taxes – U.S. Citizens Living in Canada

U.S. citizens who die while resident in Canada face taxation issues from two countries: Canadian income tax on unrealized gains and certain tax deferred assets and U.S. federal estate tax on the fair market value of all assets. This blog briefly summarizes the tax issues ...

Cross-border Gifts – Application of Article XIII – Gains

Last month, we described a situation where a Canadian resident, nonresident alien of the US used the Canada – US Income Tax Convention (“Treaty”) to reduce their overall tax liability on employment income earned in the U.S. The second part of our Treaty example concerns ...

We’ve added FATCA Seminars for Vancouver

On July 1, 2014 the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act will require Canadian financial institutions to report accounts held by U.S. persons to the IRS. If you are a U.S. person who has not filed U.S. tax returns you may have significant exposure to tax, ...

Internal Revenue Service announces changes to Streamlined Programs

On June 18th, the Internal Revenue Service announced changes to the Offshore Programs to help ease the tax reporting compliance burden on delinquent taxpayers and assist more taxpayers to come forward to get their U.S. tax return filing obligations up to date. Now referred to ...

US Vacation Home Rules

Many Canadian residents took advantage of the depressed US housing market and the strong Canadian dollar during the last few years and have purchased vacation homes in the U.S. Some of these individuals will use their US homes exclusively for their own enjoyment while others ...

US Informational Reporting Requirements for Canadian Corporations with US Business Activities

In addition to filing a U.S. federal income tax return, Canadian corporations engaged in a US trade or business or 25% Canadian-owned U.S. corporations may have a requirement to file IRS Form 5472, Information return of a 25% Foreign-Owned U.S. Corporation or a Foreign Corporation ...

The member firms of Andersen in Canada focus on Canadian, international and Canada-U.S. cross-border tax matters. With offices across Canada, our tax professionals work with a broad range of businesses and individual clients to develop innovative tax solutions for a diverse range of issues. Our senior leaders and many of our professional staff have extensive experience in Canadian, international, U.S. and cross-border tax matters with major international accounting firms, as well as practical experience working with businesses and individuals.

January 1, 1970

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