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UN PENSION CANADIAN NATIONALS - ILLUSTRATION

Dear UN Friends:

I have prepared this worksheet for educational purposes only Download UN Pension Canadian nationls.  Just to try and reduce a bit of the complexity.  Please review it and post any feedback and I can then improve on this illustration.

Clearly, the Canadian tax authorities are following the US examples as much as possible.  As regards the lump-sum, that is a bit sticky in my mind.  I have thus written a letter  Download Irs_lumsum formula for UN pensions  to a US tax authority and will await their response. 

Please consult with a tax professional for final guidance and application of UN taxation issues.

Cheers,

Merrill Cassell

Related reading :UN Pension - Tax exemption portion for Canadian nationals

WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN WAR ZONES

Every now and then we are starkly reminded how babies skulls crushed, women and girl children raped and taken as wives of war-lords or forced into slavery and other sexual violence. UNICEF is still at the forefront, but it hard to imagine that in spite of many decades of the agency's existence, the problems of women and children are only increasing.

UN PENSION - TAX EXEMPT PORTION FOR CANADIAN NATIONALS

I have been advocating for a few years that Canadian authorities should apply the same formula for the tax-exemption of UN Pension as applied for retirees who have domiciled in the United States of America.  It so happened that one Canadian national had by accident come across my site on the web and got in touch with me.   We communicated about two years ago and shared information and he promised to push the case with the Canadian tax authorities.  I am now pleased to report that he has met with some success.  Please see the pdf file attached at this link: Download LetterFromCRAContainingDetailsAboutTaxExemption2[1].  Please see note below:**

I am sure some former UN colleagues now on a UN pension and domiciled in Canada may have a chance of getting tax refunds retroactively.  Please see a tax preparer with a copy of this letter. Many of the assumptions are based on the US tax document 575, the 2008 update at this link Publication 575 Pension and Annuity Income.   I have also prepared a worksheet to show how the system works, please see Download UN Pension Canadian nationals** for illustration purposes only.  But  you must counsult with a tax professional if you are unable to prepare your own taxes.

**The Download of UN Pension Canadian nationals was added here on Feb 24, 2009.

Download UN Pension Canadian nationals.

Note for UN retirees domiciled in Canada: Please contact the local
Tax Service Office of the Canada Revenue Agency(CRA) where you file your returns (or would file your tax return when you retire).  The addresses and telephone numbersare on the CRA web site. We have had to black out the names and telephone numbers of individuals mentioned in the CRA letter because they are not the contact persons for processing of individual tax returns regarding the partial taxation of the UN Pension.

UN TRANSLATIONS

I only recently encountered the google translater.  It's a great free service and covers all six languages of the United Nations and much more.  While I doubt it cannot replace the use of translators for the large documents it will be certainly of help to UN staff for small communications of e-mail and letter in their daily course of work.  If I had this web facility during my workiing years it would have made my work so much easier.

UN PENSION FUND - what CEO said and........

What the UNJSPF CEO said in October 2008 is almost about the same that is being said in UNICEF Staff News of January 2009 ( page 8, Retirement, Should I Worry About My Pension?).