TAX PLANNING SERVICES
At Cardinal Point, we guide our clients through a full range of Canadian, U.S. and cross-border tax planning strategy. These strategies are designed to minimize our clients’ tax liabilities, maximize their cash flow, and help them to realize their financial goals.
TAX PLANNING
At Cardinal Point, we guide our clients through a full range of Canadian, U.S. and cross-border tax planning strategy. These strategies are designed to minimize our clients’ tax liabilities, maximize their cash flow, and help them to realize their financial goals.
Our tax planning initiatives are fully integrated with our clients’ investment, financial and estate planning strategy. This coordinated approach to wealth management streamlines the financial planning process and helps our clients ensure lasting wealth for today, tomorrow and generations to come.
Canada and U.S. Tax Preparation
Our domestic and cross-border tax planning services also include tax preparation and tax compliance for clients living, working, investing, transitioning residency and/or conducting business in the U.S. and Canada. Our team of professionals specialize in providing the following list of services:
- Canada and U.S. tax preparation, including all provinces and states
- Tax preparation for Canadians living, working or investing in the United States
- Tax preparation for Americans living, working or investing in Canada
- Tax planning services for Canadians moving to the U.S. and Americans moving to Canada
- Reporting of Canadian financial accounts in the United States, e.g., FinCEN Report 114 (FBAR), Form 8938
- U.S. and Canadian tax residency status determination, including any applicable exemptions
- Canadian departure return and deemed disposition filings
- U.S.-Canada Tax Treaty elections review to eliminate double taxation
- Canadian foreign tax credit claims in the United States
- Comprehensive review of CPP/OAS taxation in the United States and social security-CPP equalization
- Tax advice for Canadians returning to Canada and Americans returning to the U.S., as well as on the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative
- Review of reporting requirements for RRSP, TSFA, RESP accounts in the U.S. and cross-border inheritances
- Integrated tax planning on Canadian tax positions and evaluation of U.S. estate tax issues for Canadian residents holding U.S. investments (including U.S. real estate)
- Tax preparation and planning for owners of cross-border rental properties
Whether you are a Canadian or American living in your home country, a Canadian living in the U.S., an American living in Canada or an expat living abroad, Cardinal Point can handle all aspects of your tax needs to help you comply with the relevant tax laws and regulations in Canada and the U.S.
Do you file both Canada and U.S. taxes?
Our team can handle all of your cross-border tax planning needs
Moving across the border?
Important tax planning initiatives must be considered prior to any move.
OUR RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Winter 2023/2024 Tax Highlights – USA
The tax team at Cardinal Point Capital Management has put together a few highlights of what is old and what is new for taxes and compliance in the United States this winter of 2023–2024. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is still in play until 2026 and the lower tax rates, higher gift and estate tax exemption and complex foreign reporting are both your planning opportunities and your foreign compliance burden. The SECURE Act 2.0 offers better choices for retirement savings. Clean energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act are fully available for 2023 and forward. Beneficial Ownership Reporting will start in January 2024.
Winter 2023/2024 Tax Highlights – Canada
2023 was a busy year of changes for taxation in Canada! Changes to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) are substantial and will affect most taxpayers with capital gains and stock options. The tax team at Cardinal Point Capital Management has put together this letter to explain AMT at a high level and point out some other measures that warrant notice. These other measures include: the First Home Savings Account, anti-flipping rules for principal residences, the Underused Housing Tax, vacant home taxes expanded reporting for all trusts (including bare trusts), enhanced GAAR, and the Mandatory Disclosure Rules. Let’s jump in with the increased limit for withdrawals of EAP (the grant portion) from an RESP.
2024 Annual Inflation Adjustments from the IRS – Cross-Border Implications
The only constant in the world of taxes is change. The IRS recently announced the inflation adjusted numbers for 2024. Spoiler alert: All the numbers increase until 2026. For U.S. citizens living abroad and for non-U.S. persons with assets in the U.S., these changes matter. In this article, the tax team at Cardinal Point Capital Management goes over the dollar limits such as the increase in the lifetime gift and estate tax exemption to $13,610,000 and what that means for a non-resident whose estate is in multiple countries or whose inheriting spouse is not a U.S. citizen.