According to the IRS, nearly 750,000 stimulus cheques have gone out to ‘foreign addresses,’ totalling $1.2 billion
OTTAWA — Thousands of people in Canada can expect a letter shortly from the U.S. Treasury Department.
“The reason being that the U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that tax based on citizenship. So a U.S. citizen, wherever they live in the world, is always subject to U.S. tax, which is different than Canada,” said Mark Feigenbaum, an Ontario-based attorney and accountant specialized in cross-border taxes.
One of them is Charles Lewis, a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen who received a cheque in the mail last week. “The domestic numbers likely also include resident aliens, and Canadians are likely in both the domestic and foreign categories,” Smith said.
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