Hi all,
Been looking into the estate tax on any of Vanguard's ETF's should I pass away. It appears to me that the US estate tax does apply to all of these ETF's but that the first $60,000 US in ETF's is without tax. Can anyone else confirm this or add to the situation?
Wondering on whether to switch from Vanguard to maybe and equivalent canadian ishare ETF so as to remove this US tax risk. Only drawback is MER differences which will have to be weighed against US tax amount.
VTI(0.07%) vs XSP (0.24%)
VWO (0.2%) vs XEM (0.82%)
VEA (0.12%) vx XIN (0.49%)
Been looking into the estate tax on any of Vanguard's ETF's should I pass away. It appears to me that the US estate tax does apply to all of these ETF's but that the first $60,000 US in ETF's is without tax. Can anyone else confirm this or add to the situation?
Wondering on whether to switch from Vanguard to maybe and equivalent canadian ishare ETF so as to remove this US tax risk. Only drawback is MER differences which will have to be weighed against US tax amount.
VTI(0.07%) vs XSP (0.24%)
VWO (0.2%) vs XEM (0.82%)
VEA (0.12%) vx XIN (0.49%)