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When You Leave Canada, Tax Law May Treat Much of What You Own as Sold
On the day you stop being a Canadian tax resident, the law treats most of what you own as sold at market value — even though not a dollar has changed hands. How big the departure tax runs, which assets escape it, and which moves only work in advance.
ReadBefore You Sign: A Complete Review Checklist for That Investment Offer
Someone has offered you a product — an LP, a structured note, an offshore fund. The materials are thick and everything sounds good. Before you sign, it's worth having someone with nothing to sell you read them in full. Here is the checklist.
ReadThe Tax Bill Arrives Before the Cash Does: Estate Liquidity in Canada
"Canada has no estate tax" — true, and misleading. The real issue isn't the name of the tax but its timing: decades of gains settle on one final return, while the family's most valuable assets are precisely the hardest to sell at that moment.
ReadThe "Sophisticated" Products on the Private Banking Shelf — and Where They Get Expensive
Structured notes, seg funds, permanent insurance, private credit, liquid alts — five different structures sharing one feature: costs, liquidity limits, and tail risks are scattered across different documents, formulas, and points in time, hard to see from any single number.
ReadA 16% Coupon: Where the Yield Comes From, and Where the Cost Hides
An autocallable note's headline coupon is not its expected return: the autocall, the barrier's observation method, and tax together decide the long-run outcome. A walk through the structure, using a verifiable real term sheet.
ReadWhat Do You Actually Pay for the Funds in Your Account?
Fund fees are written in the purchase documents, but they never leave your account as a line item — you can't feel them, yet they happen every year. Starting in 2026, that changes: your annual statement will show a dollar figure for the first time.
ReadBringing the Proceeds of a China Property Sale to Canada: The Complete Timeline
The transfer itself isn't taxed. What decides the outcome is two tax dates — the day you became a Canadian tax resident, and the day the property sells — plus a funds-compliance stage. Each has steps worth arranging in advance.
ReadCanada's Housing Correction: Mean Reversion or Revaluation?
Metro Vancouver's composite benchmark is down about 12% from peak, the Greater Toronto Area about 26%, and "time to buy" is getting louder. Before answering, a more basic question deserves an answer first — is this a price returning to its average, or a valuation being reset?
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