1Charro

This is 1Charro reporting back 4 months later. I believe I may have started all this 'conflab'. What started my problem with Sudbury Ont. office of CRA was a mistake by Dave Paterson on my 2018 taxes. He apparently registered me as being Non-Resident; (what that all means I'm not sure and after all the confusion I don't even want to know), but a subsequent phone call to Sudbury 'May' have solved the dilema. At least that what I was told by a very helpful 'lady' there. Then 'low & behold', Mr Hamilton(?) in that very same office ,turned around and re-sent the bill for $2642+-.. I'm still awaiting a reply (by snail- mail) to my very 'snarky' answer to his lack of 'due-diligence'. The old story of the right hand not knowing..... Sure a bunch of Grumpy old Canadians down here.

Great info Spencer and I'm glad you have me 'under your wing'! What have you planned if i should outlive you?

I'm delighted to find all these experiences on line. I've lived in Mexico four & one half years now and have just this winter been notified by CRA in Sudbury that I owe over $2600 because I failed to tell them i was leaving Canada. ( I mistakenly thought that 's why we had our passports stamped.!) As I am now in my 80 th year, I had been collecting OAS & CPP several years before leaving in 2016, for Ecuador. Am I to now believe, that they will 'claw-bask' or demand payment up front of the $2600 plus $ ?? I sponsored a new Mexican wife to Canada in 2007, so had no problem obtaining my 'Permante' here. She now works in Alberta and winters in Mexico.(Separete from me!) Bill