What changed in Canada

Crypto is not excluded property, so the arrival step-up and departure tax both apply in full

Crypto tax and legal status

Automatic crypto reporting to CRA starts with the 2027 calendar year

Crypto tax and legal status

T1135 for crypto turns on where it is held, and self-custody is genuinely unsettled

Crypto tax and legal status

Tax-loss harvesting needs a real 30-day gap or a different asset

Crypto tax and legal status

Active trading risks a business-income assessment that doubles the tax bill

Crypto tax and legal status

The 50 percent capital gains inclusion rate is confirmed and settled

Crypto tax and legal status

FAPI accrual-taxes a foreign holding company's passive income once you become resident

Moving your company

Running your foreign company from Canada can make the whole company Canadian

Moving your company

Foreign holdings above CAD 100,000 cost trigger annual T1135 reporting

Leaving home: exit tax and ties

Ceasing Canadian residence triggers a tax bill on unrealised gains

Leaving home: exit tax and ties

Every foreign asset gets a free step-up to market value on the day you land

Leaving home: exit tax and ties

Citizenship needs 1,095 days in five years, and dual nationality is fully allowed

Permanent residency and citizenship

Start-Up Visa needs a designated organisation's backing, not just capital

Residency routes

International Experience Canada is the cheapest route into a full Canadian work life

Residency routes

Express Entry and Provincial Nominee streams are the main skilled routes to PR

Residency routes

Wealth alone does not open a Canadian residency route outside Quebec's investor program

Residency routes

Universal healthcare is Canada's strongest relocation asset

Healthcare coverage

Visitors get no provincial healthcare coverage

Healthcare coverage

No totalization agreement plus a Canadian employer footprint means real double-contribution exposure

Social security

A certificate of coverage keeps you on home social security

Social security

CPP and EI attach to work physically performed in Canada, but only for a Canadian employer

Social security

Two relief routes exist for Regulation 102, with confirmed statutory day thresholds

Employer payroll obligations

Regulation 102 obliges your employer to withhold Canadian payroll tax, even if you owe nothing

Employer payroll obligations

Article 15 relief applies cleanly for a genuine short-stay nomad

Personal income tax

Employment income is sourced where you physically do the work

Personal income tax

A treaty tie-breaker can undo the 183-day deemed residence

Tax residency

183 days of presence makes you a deemed resident for the whole year

Tax residency

Unlikely to become a Canadian tax resident on this stay

Tax residency

Serving Canadian clients or a Canadian branch breaks the visitor exemption

Right to work

No work permit needed to run your foreign job from Canada

Right to work

Indonesia qualifies for an eTA only under two specific conditions

Immigration and visa

Brazil qualifies for an eTA only under two specific conditions

Immigration and visa

US nationals need neither a visa nor an eTA

Immigration and visa

Your nationality needs only a CAD 7 eTA to fly in

Immigration and visa

Standard visitor admission covers up to six months

Immigration and visa