CROSS-BORDER FINANCIAL PLANNING
At Cardinal Point, we understand that there’s no such thing as a "one size fits all" cross-border financial planning strategy. That’s why our team of practitioners provide clients with personally tailored tax, legal and investment solutions that fit their unique cross-border lifestyle.
Increasing Need for Cross-Border Specialists
Whether for professional or personal reasons, more people are taking up permanent or temporary residence in other countries. Never has this been more true than today, particularly for Canadian and American citizens. And while a move into a new country represents a new and exciting time, this transition also requires proper financial planning, tax planning and investment management.
Trusted Guidance Across Borders
Cardinal Point takes a multifaceted approach to providing wealth management services in the United States and Canada. Our investment management, tax and financial planning solutions are tailored to those living and working in the U.S. and Canada and those expats living abroad. Cardinal Point’s team of advisors specialize in cross-border planning, transition of assets, and ongoing oversight of investment portfolios.
Who Can Benefit
Those clients who benefit from our cross-border financial, tax and estate planning and investment management oversight expertise include:
- Executives and professionals working and living across the border
- Canadians retiring in the United States and Americans retiring in Canada
- Small business owners with companies on both sides of the border
- Canadians returning to Canada and Americans returning to the United States
- Canadian and U.S. expats living abroad
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OUR RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Estate Planning when moving from the U.S. to Quebec
If you’re a Canadian living in the U.S. or elsewhere in Canada and planning a return to your home province of Quebec, there are a number of factors you’ll need to consider including the ramifications of such a move on your current estate plan. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at differences between Common Law and Civil Law and how they relate to estate planning.
Gifting Strategy for U.S. Citizens with a Non-U.S. Citizen Spouse Planning a Relocation to Canada
There are notable instances where having a non-U.S. citizen spouse results in complications when it comes to tax and estate planning. For example, there is no estate tax marital deduction when the donee spouse is not a U.S. citizen unless a QDOT, a form of qualified domestic trust, is used. This QDOT structure is not an ideal planning structure in many situations.