Working in Canada after moving to USA

[bmc 7]

Does anyone who has moved from Canada to the USA still work in Canada?

I'm up for promotion to a position I've been waiting for so I'm co spidering keeping my job and commuting. The husband and I are in border towns anyway and I commute to work when I'm over there for the weekend already.

Just curious if anyone else does this and if the taxes/benefits/CDN currency pay cheque, etc. was a pain?

[The Mean Lady 604]

I can't help fully but I can tell you I spend most of my time in Canada and work remote from the us. I hate losing money to the exchange rate so as it is right now it would help you lol but if the economy balances back out then you will go back to making less. With a cross border account like rbc though it makes exchanging very easy

[Kathryn41 3,205]

There are a number of Canadians who work cross border. The one who comes most immediately to mind is Nieks who actually works as a Canadian Border Services officer and lives in the US with her husband. You might want to PM her and ask her about some of the tax concerns involved.

Edited December 5, 2012 by Kathryn41

[configuration 2]

I started doing this just a few weeks ago. Became a US PR and live in NY State. But I have kept my job in Canada, at least for the next few months. They allow me to mostly work remotely, except for having to come in for a few meetings a couple of times a month.

I have given up my Canadian residence, drivers' license and health card, and have no family or personal ties in Canada. So I will make the case to the CRA that I should be treated as a non-resident for tax purposes. As I understand it, this will imply paying taxes to the CRA on my Canadian income only, but not on any income that my spouse or I earn in the US. Then the US should not tax me for any income earned in Canada, since I will earn a tax credit for taxes paid to Canada which will be more than what the IRS would have taken anyway. THe IRS will tax us on any income earned in the US or the rest of the world, which should not be subject to Canadian taxation.

If anyone thinks I am reading the tax situation incorrectly, please let me know.

Also, about pay cheques- there is no reason it should be too difficult. My Canadian employer will only deposit my pay in CAD into a Canadian bank account. I then use something like xetrade or my brokerage account to periodically convert these amounts to USD and send them to my bank account here.

[warlord 73]

The only issue I see is if you apply for AOS (assuming you haven't gotten that far yet) and then there would be the issue of not able to leave until you got the AP document in hand. Other than that, as long as you're living in the US and have your primary residency there, there won't be any breaks in your status...