![]() ![]() When employees and employers are located in the same province or territory, both are subject to the same tax rules. ![]() A second legacy of the pandemic-less certain but urgently needed-may be the attention it brings to this extreme tax complexity, and to the opportunity to update and simplify Canada’s rules through a federal government review. The spike in home-based workers during the pandemic already caused disruption this past tax season, as practitioners and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) worked through millions of first-time tax claims for home office expenses. While the CRA simplified these claims for the 2020 tax year, the situation showed just how complicated these rules have become.Īs the issues we discuss below show, home office expense claims are just one of many tax risks that businesses need to navigate. As workforces get more mobile, employers can find themselves facing an array of new tax risks and obligations, especially when employees do their work cross-border. Indeed, a recent poll by Gartner, the global research and advisory firm, found that 48 per cent of employees are likely to work remotely some or all of the time after the pandemic, compared to 30 per cent before the pandemic began. As more employees opt to work from home, employers will need to manage the significant tax issues these arrangements can bring. One of the legacies associated with the pandemic is that remote work is here to stay. ![]() Simply having a work permit is not enough to qualify under CEC you'd need to be physically inside Canada working for a Canadian employer, in an eligible occupation, for it to count as Canadian work experience.īy working remotely, from outside Canada, for an employer in Canada, your work experience would only count as foreign work experience (the same way that working for an employer in your home country would).ĭepending on the occupation and length of work experience you may or may not use that work experience to qualify under the Federal Skilled Worker Program, but not under the Canadian Experience Class (different immigration programs, with different eligibility requirements).A recent poll found that 48 per cent of employees are likely to work remotely some or all of the time after the pandemic (Getty Images/Todor Tsvetkov) Section 87.1 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations defines work experience under the Canadian Experience Class as work experience obtained in Canada (as in, physically inside Canada): You would not be eligible to apply under the Canadian Experience Class, because remote work done from outside Canada does not count as Canadian work experience. Remote work done from outside Canada would not count as Canadian work experience, as OP wouldn't be entering the Canadian labour market by being outside Canada:Īn allowance for normal vacation time during a period of qualifying work experience cannot be used as a substitute or proxy for meeting the in-Canada element of the work experience requirement (that is, work experience obtained outside Canada will not be considered as though the applicant had been on a period of vacation in order to be counted as part of the period of in-Canada work experience). (2) A foreign national is a member of the Canadian experience class if(a) they have acquired in Canada, within the three years before the date on which their application for permanent residence is made, at least one year of full-time work experience, or the equivalent in part-time work experience, in one or more occupations that are listed in Skill Type 0 Management Occupations or Skill Level A or B of the National Occupational Classification matrix, exclusive of restricted occupations The work experience needs to have been obtained inside Canada, in order for it to be eligible under CEC: It requires more than just having a Canadian work permit for it to count as Canadian work experience. I saw on express visa page when you self evaluate, under the How many years of experience questionnaire, there is a disclaimer that said something that Canadian Experience needs Canadian Working visa. ![]()
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