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CRA reviews are won on documentation: every figure filed should trace to a source document, and deadlines — 90 days for an objection — are unforgiving. The T1135 foreign income verification statement applies once specified foreign property passes $100,000 in cost — late-filing penalties start at $25 a day. We quote foreign earned income exclusion review as one economical fixed price — the budget-friendly alternative to hourly billing.
A few notes from the files we actually work on, because foreign earned income exclusion review is decided by details that never make it into a brochure.
First, the rule that sorts straightforward files from complicated ones: The rate charged follows the customer's province, not the seller's: 13% into Ontario, 15% into New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and PEI, 14% into Nova Scotia (since 1 April 2025), 5% plus provincial tax elsewhere. A seller charging its own province's rate nationally is under-collecting on some sales and over-collecting on others, and owes the difference on the under-collected ones.
Layer a second constraint on top and the picture sharpens: Part XIII withholding of 25 percent applies to dividends, rents, royalties and certain interest paid to non-residents. It is reduced only by the rate the applicable treaty allows. The Canadian payer is liable for tax it failed to withhold, and the amounts are reported on an NR4 information return. Then there is the matter of timing, which forgives very little: A payment to a non-resident for services performed in Canada is subject to 15 percent withholding under Regulation 105. That applies whether or not the non-resident ends up owing Canadian tax. A waiver has to be applied for before the payment is made, and the payer that withheld nothing is the one assessed.
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The structure at a Canadian corporation with US customers in Edmonton, Alberta no longer fitted the business. 25% withholding on gross Canadian rent where a section 216 election would have taxed only the net showed it. Rebuilding it saves $22,000 a year.
The structure at a Canadian corporation with US customers in Edmonton, Alberta dated from years earlier. It had been set up for a business that no longer existed. 25% withholding on gross Canadian rent where a section 216 election would have taxed only the net had become expensive. We filed the section 216 election with the supporting rental statements and recovered the excess withholding as a refund. The reorganisation used the rollover provisions rather than a taxable transfer, so no tax fell due on the restructuring itself. $22,000 of annual saving, achieved on a tax-deferred basis. The minute book, elections and valuations are all in the file.
Due diligence at an inbound transferee on assignment in Hamilton, Ontario surfaced a single shareholder holding every share, with no room to multiply the exemption. Restructuring the sale saved $380,000 against the original terms.
An inbound transferee on assignment in Hamilton, Ontario was preparing to sell. Due diligence surfaced a single shareholder holding every share, with no room to multiply the exemption. That would have reduced the price or killed the deal outright. We cleaned up the historical file. We applied the treaty rate to the dividend withholding, filed the NR4 return, and remitted the shortfall before the CRA assessed the payer for it. Then we prepared the due-diligence package the buyer's advisers actually asked for. The deal closed at the agreed price. $380,000 of tax was saved against the structure originally proposed, with no post-closing adjustment.
Collections had begun against a Canadian resident with a US rental property in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan over 4 years of unfiled returns. Bringing them current cut $52,000 from the balance.
By the time a Canadian resident with a US rental property in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan called, 4 years were outstanding. The CRA had assessed on estimates. Underneath it sat US tax paid but no foreign tax credit claimed on the Canadian return. We reconstructed the records year by year. We filed the outstanding T1135 disclosures through the Voluntary Disclosures Program, which eliminated the penalty exposure entirely. Each filing replaced an arbitrary assessment with a real one. The account is current. Filing on real numbers rather than CRA estimates reduced the balance by $52,000, and a relief application addressed part of the accumulated interest.
Closing the books at an emigrant who left Canada mid-year in Brampton, Ontario took 10 weeks. The cause was invoices paid to a non-resident consultant working on site in Canada with no Regulation 105 withholding taken. It now takes 10 days.
The accounting file at an emigrant who left Canada mid-year in Brampton, Ontario had a weak foundation. It was built on invoices paid to a non-resident consultant working on site in Canada with no Regulation 105 withholding taken. The year-end had taken 10 weeks each of the last three years. We reported the deemed disposition properly on the departure return and claimed the foreign tax credits that had been left unused. We also moved the reconciliations into the monthly cycle, so the year-end stopped being a rebuild. The file reconciles. Month-end closes in 10 days instead of 10 weeks, and the year-end is a review rather than a reconstruction.
A desk review assessed a family with a Florida vacation property in Red Deer, Alberta $34,500. The dispute was over dividends paid to a non-resident shareholder with nothing withheld, leaving the payer holding the liability. Producing the records vacated the assessment.
A family with a Florida vacation property in Red Deer, Alberta was carrying $34,500 of penalties and interest. The charges arose from dividends paid to a non-resident shareholder with nothing withheld, leaving the payer holding the liability. Much of that amount accumulated during a period the CRA itself had delayed. We reconstructed the day count on both sides of the border and documented the residency and treaty position before either revenue authority asked. We framed the relief application on the specific grounds the CRA guidelines recognise rather than on general hardship. The assessment was vacated. $34,500 came off the account, and the documentation now on file makes the same position straightforward to defend next time.
A 5-week rebuild at a non-resident owning Canadian rental property in Moncton, New Brunswick got the filing in with 18 days to spare. That avoided $110,000 in penalties.
A non-resident owning Canadian rental property in Moncton, New Brunswick was weeks away from the deadline for foreign earned income exclusion review. Behind that sat winters spent in the United States with the day count kept casually and no residency position documented anywhere. The exposure if the date slipped was around $110,000. We restructured the US holding so the Canadian and US characterisations aligned, ending the double taxation going forward. The filing went in complete rather than provisional, so there was no amended return to follow. Filed with 18 days to spare. $110,000 in late-filing penalties avoided, and the working papers are ready for the following year.
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Foreign Earned Income Exclusion Review starts at a fixed fee quoted before any work begins. The quote is locked at the outset and does not change mid-engagement, and you pay only after you have reviewed and approved the deliverable. Compare every plan on our transparent pricing page.
At minimum: prior-year returns and notices of assessment, your bank and credit-card statements for the fiscal period, payroll records if you have employees, and GST/HST filings. We send a checklist tailored to your situation after the free 15-minute call.
Most engagements are completed within 3 to 5 business days once your documents are complete. Catch-up work covering multiple years takes longer, and we tell you the realistic timeline before you commit rather than after.
We respond on your behalf at no extra charge for any return we prepared. Every figure we file is supported by documentation retained in your file, which is what turns a CRA review from a crisis into correspondence. See how our CRA audit representation works.
Yes. Late filing penalties compound at 5% of the balance owing plus 1% per month, so the cost of waiting is real. We prioritise catch-up work and, where eligible, file under the CRA's Voluntary Disclosures Program to reduce penalties.
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Software applies the rules you already know about. An experienced tax accountant finds the ones you do not: capital cost allowance timing, the small business deduction threshold, shareholder loan repayment rules, and TOSI exposure on family dividends. The fee is usually smaller than the deductions it surfaces.
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Our answer starts where the legislation starts. Departure from Canada triggers a deemed disposition of most property at fair market value. The resulting gain has to be reported on the final resident return. From there it is a matter of applying it to your year — and that application, not the rule itself, is where an income tax specialist earns the fee.
You are asking the right question, and it has a real answer. A payment to a non-resident for services performed in Canada is subject to 15 percent withholding under Regulation 105. That applies whether or not the non-resident ends up owing Canadian tax. A waiver has to be applied for before the payment is made, and the payer that withheld nothing is the one assessed. What we add on top of that is the paperwork discipline that makes the answer stand up if anyone ever asks you to prove it.
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For the 2025 tax year the filing and payment deadline is 30 April 2026. If you or your spouse were self-employed, the filing deadline moves to 15 June 2026, but any balance owing is still due 30 April 2026. Interest starts the day after the payment deadline, and a late-filing penalty applies on top when a return with a balance owing is filed late. File on time even with nothing owing, because income-tested benefits are recalculated from the filed return.
As the rules stand for the 2025 tax year filed in 2026, the late-filing penalty is 5% of the balance owing plus 1% of that balance for each full month the return is late, to a maximum of 12 months, so 17% at worst. It rises to 10% plus 2% per month for up to 20 months, a 50% maximum, but only where the CRA formally demanded the return and had already charged a late-filing penalty for any of the three preceding tax years. Interest compounds daily.
Multiply the pre-tax price by the rate for the province of supply. On a $100 purchase in 2026 that is $13.00 in Ontario (13%), $14.00 in Nova Scotia (14%), and $15.00 in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador or Prince Edward Island (15%). In the non-participating provinces and the three territories only the 5% GST applies, so $5.00, plus any provincial sales tax billed separately.
Not indefinitely. Property tax is collected by your municipality, which charges interest on arrears and can eventually register a tax arrears certificate and sell the property under provincial tax-sale rules. The permitted period of arrears is set by provincial legislation and varies, so ask your municipality for its schedule and payment options. Municipal arrears are separate from anything owing to the CRA, and paying one does not clear the other.
Canadian-source income is income whose origin is in Canada: employment carried out here, a business carried on here, rent from Canadian real property, gains on taxable Canadian property, and Canadian pension, dividend and interest payments. It matters most for non-residents, who are taxed only on Canadian-source amounts, often by withholding at the payer rather than by filing. Residents are taxed on worldwide income instead. A tax treaty can reduce the withholding rate for your country.
Sign in to CRA My Account and check your account balance and your latest notice of assessment: they show tax owing, instalments credited and any refund due. Without online access, call the CRA's individual enquiries line, or ask for the balance in writing. Filing an outstanding return is often what triggers a refund, since credits and benefits are only calculated once the return is assessed.
Start with the CRA's own learning material: its Learn about your taxes course walks a first-time filer through income, deductions, credits and filing, and the T1 guide explains each line of the return. Then read the CRA pages for your own situation, such as employment expenses or self-employment, plus your province's credits. Working through last year's return with the guide open teaches more than any summary. Ask for help before a deadline, not after.
Often yes. A non-resident business making taxable supplies in Canada must register and charge GST/HST once it passes $30,000 of taxable revenue over four consecutive calendar quarters or within a single quarter, using the rate for the customer's province: 5% GST, 13% in Ontario, 14% in Nova Scotia from 1 April 2025. Simplified registration rules apply to digital products and platform sales to Canadian consumers. A US supplier also pays GST/HST on its own Canadian purchases.
No, in the ordinary case. Basic groceries are zero-rated, so plain meat, fish, produce, milk and bread carry no GST or HST. Tax applies once food is prepared or falls into an excluded category: restaurant and takeout meals, heated food, snack foods, candy, carbonated drinks and single servings sold ready to eat. A package of raw chicken is untaxed while a hot cooked chicken from the same store is taxed.
Not directly. The CRA does not report your balance to Equifax or TransUnion, so an ordinary tax debt does not appear on your credit file. It can become visible another way: the CRA may certify the debt in Federal Court and register a lien against property, which is a public record that lenders and title searches pick up. Interest also compounds daily on the balance, so a payment arrangement is usually cheaper than waiting.
Reducing tax by using the rules is legal; hiding income is not. Legitimate planning means registered plans, deductions and credits you qualify for, sensible timing of income and capital gains, and a business structure that fits what you do. An arrangement whose main purpose is to defeat the tax rules can be undone under the general anti-avoidance rule, with interest and penalties. Not reporting income is evasion and carries prosecution risk.
A statement of account summarises one tax account: the balance owing or credit, payments and instalments received, transfers applied from other accounts, and interest or penalties charged. The CRA issues it with certain notices and on request, and it can be viewed in My Account or My Business Account. Check it against your own records before paying, because a surprise balance often turns out to be a payment posted to the wrong period or program.
Reviewed and fact-checked by Udit Gupta
Ex Big 4 — Ernst & Young, Deloitte · International & cross-border tax specialist · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program) · Chartered accountant, ICAI & MIA
Udit Gupta has over 15 years of experience helping corporations and business owners with corporate structuring, corporate tax filing, bookkeeping, payroll, GST/HST, cross-border tax and CRA representation. He is Big 4 trained, at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia. In 2014 he founded his accounting practice to serve entrepreneurs, startups and non-resident business owners across Canada. View full member bio.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — member 521458 · Malaysian Institute of Accountants — member CA 44667 · Ex Big 4: Ernst & Young, Deloitte · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), completed 19 Dec 2023 · In-Depth GST/HST Part I, 12 Jul 2022 · Part II, 5 Jul 2023
Editorial policy. Every page is researched against primary sources — the Income Tax Act, CRA publications and CPA Canada guidance — and every rate or threshold is stated with the tax year it applies to.
Sources. CRA — International and non-resident taxes · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)
