It may be different for you as a US citizen (I think you are) but I was looking at living in the states a number of years back and I read (as I recall) that via the tax treaty you could unwind RRSP essentially tax free. You likely had to put into a 401k or ROTH, etc.
Thankfully I don’t own RRSPs.
Jaret /
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2025-04-09 16:53:02
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