Canadian Tax-If you are in USA

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TSC Hopeful

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I spoke to the Canadian International Tax office and confirmed that if you landed and return to USA without establishing ties (such as buying a house, etc.), you are not considered a "resident" for tax purpose and do not have to file your income tax returns.
 
what is the contact information for a canadian international tax office? email, website, tel.no., etc.? please post it here, if you can. is it something like H&R Block in the US? thanks in advance.....
 
Thanks TSC Hopeful. Do you happen to have their website by any chance? Are they part of the Revenue and Customs department?
 
Originally posted by TSC Hopeful
FYI

I spoke to the Canadian International Tax office and confirmed that if you landed and return to USA without establishing ties (such as buying a house, etc.), you are not considered a "resident" for tax purpose and do not have to file your income tax returns.
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It is true!! However, if you want to sponsor someone for Canadian Immigration, then the real problem starts. When you sponsor someone you will have to enclose copies of your Canadian Tax returns. Also CIC will crosscheck with CCRA to see if you have paid canadian taxes when you apply for your Canadian citizenship.
 
I am addressing the fact that if you landed and returned to the USA without establishing ties in Canada, you do not have to file a Canadian income tax return.

To obtain citizenship, one must establish residency. In other words, you have to pay tax to become a citizen.
 
Canadian Taxes and living in USA

Hi everyone,

I've checked into this quite extensively and here are my findings:

- you do not have to pay Canadian taxes if you don't have strong ties (house, family, etc.). Immigration status and tax status are two different things and even if the Canadian government didn't intend them to be different, right now this could be considered a loophole. They are probably thinking about closing it somehow but they can't because they are allowing permanent residents to spend up to 3 years outside of Canada and getting double taxation on your income would reduce your chances of survival to nothing.

- citizenship is also not tied to taxes...yes, you do have to be in Canada for three years out of the previous four, but there is no immigration law saying that you have to be working for those three years...therefore no taxes to pay...not a requirement. Also, citizenship law does not mention anything about the person living in a different country while applying for citizenship. The law does not expand on the issues related to allowing permanent residents to spend 3 years outside of Canada...

And that's my story.
 
Yes, one dosen't have to pay taxes if you don't have ties. One just cannot say that he/she will not pay taxes, because they don't have any ties. One has to fill out NR74 to get an approval from CCRA. Yes, if one is living in Canada, and not working then he/she dosen't have to pay

To be eligible for Citizenship one has to live in Canada for 3 years. How does one have a heart to file for canadian citizenship when he/she has not lived for a single day in Canada, not paid a single penny towards Canadain taxes, but still greedy to apply for citizenship

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