1,407 plain-English guides on cross-border moves, US and Canadian returns, and small-business money. Each one ends in what to do next, and says when a written Position Check is the smarter first step.
September 3, 2026
Where the missing 4–10% of food goes, how to run counts and waste logs that actually change behavior, why spoilage usually isn't a separate tax deduction, and the enhanced deduction for donating food instead of dumping it.
Read more →September 3, 2026
Occupancy is a restaurant's biggest fixed cost after labor. How triple-net charges and percentage rent really work, why the annual CAM reconciliation deserves an audit, how TI allowances are taxed, and what changed with Florida's rent tax repeal.
Read more →September 3, 2026
Nearly every restaurant should be an LLC for liability. The real question is when to elect S-corp taxation — the self-employment tax math, the reasonable-salary rules, and the traps for multi-owner and multi-location groups.
Read more →September 3, 2026
The tax sorting of a restaurant opening — Section 195 startup costs and the $5,000/$50,000 trap, bonus depreciation on equipment and QIP build-out, smallwares, and what a Florida quota liquor license really is for tax purposes.
Read more →September 3, 2026
Who must file Form 8027, how tip allocation works when reported tips fall under 8% of receipts, what employees must report to you monthly, and the credit that turns compliance into cash.
Read more →September 3, 2026
How dental practices are valued — collections rules of thumb vs EBITDA multiples — and how an asset sale's purchase price allocation splits your proceeds between capital gain and ordinary income.
Read more →July 29, 2026
Leave Canada and the CRA treats most of your non-registered assets as sold the day you go — taxing gains on sales that never happened. What the deemed disposition actually covers, what's exempt, the T1161 and T1243 forms, the security-deferral election, and how the timing can be planned.
Read more →July 29, 2026
The year you move from Canada, U.S. law usually gives you a choice: file as a dual-status taxpayer (nonresident before arrival, resident after) or elect full-year resident treatment. The right answer turns on pre-move Canadian income, the standard deduction, filing jointly, and the foreign tax credit — here's how the decision actually works.
Read more →July 29, 2026
The two accounts every Canadian mover owns get opposite treatment in the U.S.: the treaty protects the RRSP's deferral, while the TFSA loses its shelter entirely. Whether to keep, freeze, or collapse each one, the withholding rates on eventual RRSP withdrawals, and the brokerage problem nobody warns you about.
Read more →July 29, 2026
Sell Canadian real estate after moving to the U.S. and the buyer's lawyer will hold back a chunk of your proceeds until the CRA issues a Section 116 clearance certificate. How the certificate process works, the T2062 filing, what happens to your former principal residence, and the U.S. return that reports the same sale.
Read more →July 29, 2026
A cross-border household with one foot in each country raises the two hardest questions at once: are you actually a non-resident of Canada while your spouse is still there, and how do you file in the U.S. when your spouse is a nonresident? The residential-ties problem, the treaty tie-breaker, the U.S. filing options, and the coordination that keeps two returns from contradicting each other.
Read more →July 29, 2026
The IRS doesn't recognize the TFSA's tax-free status — and depending on how the account is structured, it may treat it as a foreign trust with two of the heaviest reporting forms in the system attached. What a TFSA actually costs a U.S. resident, the 3520/3520-A question, and the case for dealing with it before you move.
Read more →July 24, 2026
You don't need to immigrate to create a U.S. tax problem. Canadians on frequent B-1 business trips — or working remotely from U.S. soil for a Canadian employer — can cross tax lines without ever 'moving.' Where the day-count catches travelers, when working from the U.S. becomes U.S.-source income, and the employer-side risk.
Read more →July 24, 2026
The EB-5 trades a major investment for U.S. permanent residency — and for wealthy Canadians, the most valuable tax work happens before approval, not after. Pre-immigration planning, the deemed-sale timing mismatch, trusts and holding structures, and the long-term exit tax.
Read more →July 24, 2026
The K-1 gives you 90 days to marry after entering the U.S. — and drops your wedding, your immigration status, and your tax residency into the same calendar year. Filing status in the marriage year, the joint-election decision, ITINs and SSNs, Canada's goodbye, and the accounts you left behind.
Read more →July 24, 2026
The P-1 carries Canada's hockey players, minor leaguers, and touring performers into the U.S. — often for a season, not a lifetime. The jock tax across a dozen states, signing bonuses, per diems, residency when your year is split, and what Canada still taxes while you're on the road.
Read more →July 24, 2026
Move to the U.S., keep the condo in Canada, rent it out — and you've just become a non-resident landlord under Canadian tax law. The 25% withholding on gross rent, the NR6 that shrinks it, the Section 216 return that trues it up, the NR4 slip that reports it, and the U.S. side of the same income.
Read more →July 24, 2026
Every route a Canadian takes into the U.S. — TN, H-1B, L-1, O-1, P-1, E-1, E-2, EB-5, F-1, J-1, K-1, green card, dependent visas, even no visa at all — comes with its own tax picture. Find your situation and go straight to the guide written for it.
Read more →July 21, 2026
The TN visa gets Canadians working in the U.S. fast — and drops them into a tax system nobody explained. When you become a U.S. tax resident, what the dual-status first year looks like, what Canada expects on the way out, and the accounts that trigger U.S. reporting.
Read more →July 18, 2026
The O-1 brings Canada's athletes, artists, researchers, and founders to the U.S. — often with income that arrives from five directions at once. Multi-state filings, endorsement and royalty income, agent and loan-out structures, and the standard Canadian-arrival tax stack.
Read more →July 15, 2026
L-1 transfers land in the U.S. with a relocation package, sometimes stock options, and occasionally a foot on two payrolls — each with its own tax consequences. What Canadian transferees on L-1A and L-1B need to know about their first U.S. tax year.
Read more →July 13, 2026
The J-1 covers Canada's researchers, postdocs, medical trainees, interns, and camp counselors — with tax rules that depend heavily on which J-1 you are. The exempt-individual clock, what you file as a nonresident, FICA, scholarships and stipends, and the Canadian side nobody mentions.
Read more →July 10, 2026
The H-1B is the dual-intent visa — you can pursue a green card while on it. That changes the tax planning: your first-year filings look like every Canadian arriver's, but the decisions you make now echo into permanent residency. Here's the H-1B tax picture for Canadians.
Read more →July 8, 2026
A green card makes you a U.S. tax resident the day you get it — no day-counting required. What Canadians moving for love or permanent residency need to know: the green card test, filing jointly with (or without) a resident spouse, Canada's departure tax, and the long-term exit-tax trap.
Read more →The content on this page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional tax, accounting, or legal advice. See our full legal disclaimer.
