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Filing Canadian Taxes with Common-law partner from USA

Gritten

Full Member
Mar 28, 2017
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Hello Everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help provide some direction. My income taxes are generally really easy. Populate the details from my T4 and I'm done.

My partner and I are going to be starting the PR process. She's from the USA. I've been supporting her for over a year now (December 28, 2017) in Canada so we could obtain common-law. She's on an extended visitation permit.

I'm getting ready to do my taxes and understand I should be filing for common-law status now that we officially are.

She works teaching for a Chinese company that pays in RMB to her USA accounts. So technically she's registered and working in the USA. I don't know if I'm supposed to claim her USA income on my taxes or if she handles that on her own USA taxes.