Tax advantages of setting a trust for new immigrants

Proper pre-arrival planning can enable new permanent residents in Canada to significantly lower or eliminate their Canadian taxes.

This can be achieved by establishing an offshore trust to protect non-Canadian income and capital gains for up to five years after moving to Canada.

Within this tax-free period, the individual can become a citizen and opt to be taxed as a non-resident, as a result of that avoiding Canadian taxation on trust-generated income and capital gains.

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