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I moved to Canada 19 months after soft landing. They accepted my GTF without a single word. If you want to bring more than $10,000 in cash with you that’s your decision, but you don’t need to. You can wire it later.
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You have complete control over your investments, ETFs etc (but not retirement funds). I didn’t touch any of these, just brought over some cash for initial expenses and transferred the rest later. Also, I didn’t have much time to think of these things
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You can check
Income taxes by province
and
Sales taxes by province
Unless I read wrong, Ontario has lower taxes (probably because 38% of Canada’s population lives here).
Tax calculator
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There is no physical SIN card, just a printed out piece of paper
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Yes, just give the address you would give during landing, and retrieve the bank papers later, like you would retrieve the PR card.
One thing I would highly recommend is, talk to a tax consultant upon landing (e.g. H&R block), and figure out a way to file your tax returns if even you have no income in Canada. If you can somehow get a T4 form, it might save you some time in the future when you are trying to use CRA’s automated system.