I just heard about this rather ludicrous idea but I'm not laughing. A lot of ludicrous ideas become fact. The gist of it seems to be that, if a Canadian snowbird spends part of the winter in the U.S. (as we do), they will have to submit and pay income tax to the United States for that period of time as well as pay their regular Canadian income tax. Sounds crazy? I know of someone that actually happened to but he's an American living in Canada.
He didn't have a problem until H&R Block gave him poor advice. All of his income comes from the States and that's where he pays his income tax. H&R Block was doing his wife's Canadian income tax return and told him he should fill one out to receive some of our benefits. He did...and the next thing he knew, Canada Revenue charged him over $7,000 income tax on his U.S. pension money. He's been fighting for many years to get it back but every government employee he talks to tells him a different story.
So I can see the U.S. shitting on us snowbirds!!
If this all comes to fruition, Canadians will stop spending their winters in the southern states and Florida, especially, will become a desert wasteland with millions of service people out of work, home foreclosures up the ying yang, and the small core of permanent RV park residents with no-where to live.
On the other hand, Canadian snowbirds will either freeze to death or find a more hospitable winter home...maybe Mexico. Not me, though. I'll just stay home and spend most of the week playing at the senior center and making new friends.
Why do all good and fun things have to be ruined by a greedy beaurocrat who doesn't understand the ramifications of his/her stupid idea?
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