bossdog bossdog:
It took me a while to find these becuase they were well hiden on the Revenue Canada website.
Here's the deal, if you live abroad you can file for non-residencey status with Revenue Canada. Essentially, they make the the determination of your status for you after you submit the attached form.
In my situation, I do not live in Canada but I am employed and paid by a Canadian company. I now have my status and pay zero taxes. My pay is now 100% tax free.
After you fill out the form and send it in, you must submit a copy to your employer. Oh, and it's retroactive from when you first left Canada. I got a nice chucnk of back taxes given back to me becuase of this.
These may come in handy for other purposes as well. There are 3 different levels of status that you can fall under.
And no, you are not giving up citizenship or your passport. If you move back to Canada you just apply for residency again.
yeah, I filled one of those 18 years ago when I left Canada.
Now I have an income tax refund waiting, and it's going to take 25 weeks to process because of the fact I filed an NR73 form.
btw, you didn't have to search to hard, just do a search on CKA
http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?nam ... s&p=304164