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we are american citizen and live in canada as landed immigrants. my wife and i are both on pension,but we are working part time.
we like to know if you have office in toronto or nearby and we would like to know haw much you charge for preparing returns for
canada and usa.
we have been dealing with someone up to now, but it seems he is charging too much.
thanks
alfred napolitano
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david ingram replies:
A tough one. I can say that my typical charge is $600 or $700 Cdn.
However, we start returns at $75.00 and it is not unusual for a US / Canadian return to cost $1,000 or even $2,000 where there ae a large number of stock sales, mutual fund redemtions, sale of family home, and ownership of more than 5% of the shares of a Canadian Corporation which requires the filing of form 5471 ($1,100 by itself)
What is more likely that your US and Canadian returns are incorrect. It depends upon the amount of US tax you paid on your US pensions. If you paid more than 15% tax to the US, they are wrong. If the pensions are small (less than $30,000) they will likely be okay.
Your name has been added to our email list because of an enquiry we have received, we may not answer your question but
another similar question will be as we lump them.
You may find more answers at www.centa.com
David Ingram of the CEN-TA REALTY Group
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