601 plain-English guides on cross-border, each one ending in what to do next.
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Vancouver's biotech cluster, AbCellera and Zymeworks alumni among them, feeds directly into Philadelphia's pharma corridor at GSK, Johnson & Johnson.
Cross-BorderBC's combined top rate runs near 53.5%. A steady stream of BC snowbirds already winter in the Valley before they ever think about making it permanent.
Cross-BorderBC's 53.5% top rate meets Pennsylvania's flat 3.07% plus Pittsburgh's local earned income tax, a combined bill near 6%. Covers key rules, filing.
Cross-BorderPortland has zero sales tax but stacks two local taxes on top of Oregon's 9.9% rate. Here's the real BC-to-Portland tax picture on the I-5 corridor.
Cross-BorderVancouver tech talent has been quietly feeding the Research Triangle for years, and the reasons stack up on both sides of the ledger.
Cross-BorderVancouver and Salt Lake City are both mountain towns that happen to have real tech scenes attached, and that overlap is what makes this corridor work.
Cross-BorderBC's 53.5% top rate drops to zero in San Antonio, where a $1.8M Vancouver home trades for roughly $320K, on a corridor built around USAA, JBSA.
Cross-BorderBC's combined top rate runs near 53.5% against California's near 50-51%, so this isn't the dramatic cut you'd see moving to Texas or Washington.
Cross-BorderThe BC-to-California guide covers the province-level mechanics, including the RRSP problem in detail. Vancouver to San Francisco is a well-worn tech move.
Cross-BorderVancouver to Seattle is the busiest tech-specific corridor between Canada and the US. Amazon, Microsoft, SAP, EA. Covers key rules, filing requirements,.
Cross-BorderBC's combined top rate near 53.5% falls to US federal only, no state or county income tax in Hillsborough County. Covers key rules, filing requirements,.
Cross-BorderVancouver to Washington DC is a smaller corridor than Vancouver to Seattle or San Francisco, but it's a real one, and it runs on a different logic.
Cross-BorderAlimony under a US divorce agreement signed after 2018 is invisible to the IRS: the payer can't deduct it and the recipient doesn't report it.
Cross-BorderBoth countries have an AMT. Canada overhauled its version in 2024. That parallel calculation is the alternative minimum tax.
Cross-BorderAmending a cross-border return is never a one-country event. If the US return changes (higher or lower income, different FTC, corrected filing status).
Cross-BorderUS citizens living in Canada still file US tax returns, FBARs, and Form 8938 every year. The FTC prevents double tax, but the compliance stack is real.
Cross-BorderHow the bona fide residence test works for the foreign earned income exclusion. The bona fide residence test is based on intent and permanence.
Cross-BorderTaking the commuted value of a Canadian employer pension when leaving for the US creates tax in both countries. Covers treaty provisions, foreign tax.
Cross-BorderWhen a Canadian sells US real estate, the buyer withholds 15% under FIRPTA, the IRS taxes the gain, and Canada taxes it too (with an FTC).
Cross-BorderA Canadian starting or buying a business in the US faces a set of decisions that are different from those facing a US domestic entrepreneur.
Cross-BorderCanada determines tax residency based on residential ties, not citizenship or a fixed day count. Your home, spouse, and dependants drive the test.
Cross-BorderCanada and the US both tax capital gains, but the mechanics differ enough that the same sale can produce very different results depending on which country.
Cross-BorderBoth Canada and the US allow capital losses to offset capital gains, with unused losses carrying forward to future years.
Cross-BorderThe closer connection test under IRC 7701(b)(3)(B) lets Canadians who meet the substantial presence test avoid US tax residency.