Filing Canadian taxes after moving

[benoi027 3]

Hi everyone,

I worked in Canada prior to moving to the US in August, and now have income from both countries. I think I've decided to file "married filing joint" and elect to be a whole-year US resident for tax purposes. I believe this means I am a non-resident in Canada for tax purposes, and have found that if I am in fact a non-resident there, I only need to report income from Canadian sources. I'm feeling semi-comfortable with the US side of taxes, but have lots of questions about the Canadian side...

I'm trying to use TurboTax and am assuming I need to choose the "non-resident" status option. However, here are a few specific questions:

1) Am I in fact a non-resident in Canada if I am claiming to be a full-year resident in the US? I'm assuming you can't be a resident in two places at once, but please correct me if this isn't true...

2) I entered my Canadian income under the Federal "income" section in TurboTax, and was then asked to enter "other Canadian-source income" in the provincial portion of the program. It seems to me this is asking me to report the same income twice; however, I'm wondering if you do in fact need to report your Canadian income separately for federal and provincial purposes. Does anyone know if non-residents are to enter Canadian income under Federal "income", under Provincial "Statement of World Income", or under both?

Thanks for your help- hopefully someone can help me stop pulling my hair out!

[jazzly 3]

Try here. I was directed to this site by few users.

http://forums.serbinski.com/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=a09e488d35acd2fc06d6e2b7cf507554

[benoi027 3]

Try here. I was directed to this site by few users.

http://forums.serbinski.com/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=a09e488d35acd2fc06d6e2b7cf507554

Thanks Jazzly- I'll keep looking! So confusing!

[Janshark 0]

My nephew did my taxes for me on both sides of the border (Canada / US). His name is Peter Ingram and he runs Cen-ta in North Vancouver, BC. Cen-ta was started by his father David Ingram and they specialize in cross-border taxes.

He did a regular Canadian tax return for me with an exit date

He did the US federal return and included my Canadian earnings on that. (the U.S. guy my husband wanted to use wasn't going to do that and it would have screwed me up) I filed as married but filing separate.

He did the Arizona State return for just my US earnings and it was a Part-year return, form 140PY. Also married but filing separate.

Using Cen-ta ain't cheap. I got the family rate but I believe he charges at least $800.00 and mine was just a basic return (no kids).

www.centa.com I think that's the website.

Good luck with it

Jan