Snowbirds, take note. There’s a helpful new guide you’ll want to check out, called Canadians Heading South for the Winters: What you don’t know CAN hurt you!
Written by cross-border financial pro and educator Gerald Scott, it offers plain-language insight into the issues that can affect time spent in the United States. It also helps explain the cross-border realities many retirees and seasonal travellers do not fully understand until a problem arises.
Don’t wait until there’s a problem. If you spend your winters on the other side of the border, this book will help you better understand the rules and risks around U.S. presence, tax residency, health care, border crossing and property ownership.
Bringing key issue together in one place, it will help you make more informed decisions before small misunderstandings turn into expensive mistakes.
For a lot of Canadians, winter travel to the U.S. feels familiar and routine. But the current rules affecting Snowbirds are anything but simple. Many people still rely on oversimplified assumptions like “just stay under six months” without realizing that
immigration, tax, health-care and residency rules do not all work the same way. That disconnect can lead to confusion, disrupted travel plans, tax exposure, loss of health coverage or avoidable cross-border complications. This book was created to make those issues easier to understand and to help people avoid hassles.
Topics covered include:
- U.S. day-counting and why it matters
- Tax residency misconceptions
- Border crossings and travel patterns
- Provincial health coverage limits
- Travel insurance realities
- U.S. property ownership considerations
- Canadian residency ties
- Cross-border planning issues for retirees and snowbirds
Gerald is also the founder of tools and resources created to help Canadians better track time in the U.S. and make more informed cross-border decisions. @snowbirdstrackerapp
The book, 190 pages, is available in soft and hard copy (plus e-book) from Amazon and your favourite online bookstores.
