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Retirement tax questions
Agreed, there are some difficult to interpret results from the double tax agreement.
A few items that are important to note. The DTA states that public pensions are only taxable in the country of origin (unless not taxed in the country of origin). The DTA also states that private pensions are only taxable in the country of residence. The other bit is how public pensions are handled between two countries that have a DTA. The US inserts statements such that one doesn't get to have both countries public pensions in their entirety, but instead, you get effectively the higher of the two. Pay attention to which pension gets taxed by which country.
For many, they should definitely be consulting a tax professional that is conversant with the details of the DTA. There are also many that can discern what the tax laws allow (and not allow).