HELP...CANADA HERE I COME

[WHoSBeTTaTHaNuS]

Basically I'm tired of the US, so i'm moving to Canada so I can gamboool.

It would suck if I move to Canada, just to see they make online gambling illegal too.

What Canada providence(and city) would be my best bet to move to, with online gambling my main objective?


Thanks for the input

[joeker]

Maybe rethink this:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...e=1#Post8905996

[Mossberg]

Search the recent thread in this forum about "Canadian legislation", and you'll see we have fairly good reason to believe that Canada won't be attacking this issue in the same way the US gov't chose to. Personally, I believe that if they were going to take a step in the same direction, that they would have announced their intentions to do so already.

I live in the Vancouver area of British Columbia so that's all I can really recommend. It's a wonderful city with all kinds of stuff to do, great and readily available chronic, and several casinos as well. You should definitely look deeper into things before moving though - I think you will still have to pay taxes as an American even if you're living here. There have been several similar threads posted in this forum and the Internet Gambling forum over the past few monthes - just use the search function to search key words in those forums and you should have no problem locating them.

Good luck!

[j00ky]

I live in Calgary and if you like big city living and can afford to find a place to live here its great.

[keebler61]

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Search the recent thread in this forum about "Canadian legislation", and you'll see we have fairly good reason to believe that Canada won't be attacking this issue in the same way the US gov't chose to. Personally, I believe that if they were going to take a step in the same direction, that they would have announced their intentions to do so already.

I live in the Vancouver area of British Columbia so that's all I can really recommend. It's a wonderful city with all kinds of stuff to do, great and readily available chronic, and several casinos as well. You should definitely look deeper into things before moving though - I think you will still have to pay taxes as an American even if you're living here. There have been several similar threads posted in this forum and the Internet Gambling forum over the past few monthes - just use the search function to search key words in those forums and you should have no problem locating them.

Good luck!

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I thought you were excempt if you spent 11 of 12 months out of the country?

[jphil007]

Vancouver is a nice city and you can find casinos with Poker Rooms there!

Probably the best choice!

[Superflush]

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Search the recent thread in this forum about "Canadian legislation", and you'll see we have fairly good reason to believe that Canada won't be attacking this issue in the same way the US gov't chose to. Personally, I believe that if they were going to take a step in the same direction, that they would have announced their intentions to do so already.

I live in the Vancouver area of British Columbia so that's all I can really recommend. It's a wonderful city with all kinds of stuff to do, great and readily available chronic, and several casinos as well. You should definitely look deeper into things before moving though - I think you will still have to pay taxes as an American even if you're living here. There have been several similar threads posted in this forum and the Internet Gambling forum over the past few monthes - just use the search function to search key words in those forums and you should have no problem locating them.

Good luck!

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Just because Canada hasn't attacked this issue yet doesn't mean it never will be brought up. If the US finds that many of their residents are somehow using Canadian banks to play online poker, they could put considerable pressure on the Canadian government to rethink their laws. The new law is the US is relatively new, so at this point it is premature to say Canada will not be tackling this issue.



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I thought you were excempt if you spent 11 of 12 months out of the country?

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If you're a US resident and you live in Canada for more than 183 days in the calendar year then you have to declare your world wide income on your Canadian tax return. Likewise at this point, you would only have to declare your US income on your US tax return.

[Mossberg]

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Search the recent thread in this forum about "Canadian legislation", and you'll see we have fairly good reason to believe that Canada won't be attacking this issue in the same way the US gov't chose to. Personally, I believe that if they were going to take a step in the same direction, that they would have announced their intentions to do so already.

I live in the Vancouver area of British Columbia so that's all I can really recommend. It's a wonderful city with all kinds of stuff to do, great and readily available chronic, and several casinos as well. You should definitely look deeper into things before moving though - I think you will still have to pay taxes as an American even if you're living here. There have been several similar threads posted in this forum and the Internet Gambling forum over the past few monthes - just use the search function to search key words in those forums and you should have no problem locating them.

Good luck!

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Just because Canada hasn't attacked this issue yet doesn't mean it never will be brought up. If the US finds that many of their residents are somehow using Canadian banks to play online poker, they could put considerable pressure on the Canadian government to rethink their laws. The new law is the US is relatively new, so at this point it is premature to say Canada will not be tackling this issue.



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I thought you were excempt if you spent 11 of 12 months out of the country?

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If you're a US resident and you live in Canada for more than 183 days in the calendar year then you have to declare your world wide income on your Canadian tax return. Likewise at this point, you would only have to declare your US income on your US tax return.

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I never said that the issue will never be addressed by the Canadian gov't. I don't really want to argue about it because none of us know what will come of all this - However, to counter your point that the US may put pressure on our gov't if lots of Americans start to do their poker business through our banks -- I think it's obvious that this will never become widespread enough to catch the attention of anyone who matters. Obviously there will be a few pros in the US who will attempt to do this but by no means will it become a common method of depositing/withdrawing for your average joe.

So far I think that things are looking pretty good for us all.

[jonnycanada]

City to live in: Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver are all really expensive to find housing, but are nice cities. Generally, if you're an easterner, go Ontario, if westerner, go Alberta or BC.

Tax: If you intend to leave the US and sever your ties there, while buying a home in Canada, you become a Canadian resident immediately. You have to intend to give up your citizenship in the US or you will also be taxable there. The 183 day rule only applies if you remain a US citizen and merely visit Canada. If your principal residence is in Canada, you are resident here and pay tax here immediately.

Gambling: I doubt Canada will take a similar stance to the States. There is a too much gambling revenue raised for native indians for Canada to try and stomp it out and cause yet another rift with First Nations (this includes online as there is an area in Quebec that hosts online gambling servers). Quite frankly, I'm surprised the US has gone to the measures that it has.

[monkeyman]

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What Canada providence..


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wow.