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CAD and USD, side by side, from one ledger.

Every property reports profit and loss in both currencies simultaneously, using the Bank of Canada annual rate the CRA accepts. Your US Schedule E view and your Canadian T776 view never disagree about how much rent you collected — they're drawing from the same transactions.

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Two tax views, one source of truth

The Reports page has two tabs that reshape the same underlying ledger into two tax-correct views.

🇺🇸 US tax view

Schedule E tab

  • • Groups every expense by Schedule E line (1–19)
  • • Shows USD totals natively for US properties
  • • Converts CAD income to USD using the relevant year's rate for Canadian properties US-residents own
  • • Per-property breakdown plus combined view
  • • One-click CSV export — drop into your accountant's prep file
🇨🇦 Canadian tax view

CRA T776 tab

  • • Categories aligned to T776 line items (lines 9200–9369)
  • • Excludes security deposits from gross rent (CRA convention)
  • • Allocates held deposits to the lease-end month
  • • Converts US rental income to CAD using Bank of Canada annual rate
  • • Per-property and cross-border combined

Why cross-border cashflow is its own problem

A US-only landlord has one P&L in one currency on one tax form. Done.

A cross-border landlord has the same property hitting two tax authorities with different rules about what counts as income, when it counts, and what currency to report it in. CRA wants gross rent less deductible expenses on T776, in CAD, allocated to the year received (or applied, for held deposits). IRS wants rental income less deductible expenses on Schedule E, in USD, with depreciation under MACRS, with mortgage interest split from principal, and with its own rules about passive activity losses.

The same dollar of rent has to reconcile across both views. If your Schedule E says you collected $24,000 USD of rent in 2025 and your T776 says you collected $30,500 CAD, the two had better agree once you apply the Bank of Canada 2025 rate. If they don't, one of them is wrong.

BorderBird's job is to make sure they agree by construction — they're rendered from the same rent_received rows.

Just want to estimate?

The Schedule E calculator at borderbird.com/tools/schedule-e-calculator handles a single property estimate without signing up.

Cashflow — FAQ

Why do I need a P&L in two currencies?
If you're a Canadian who owns a Florida rental, you file Schedule E with the IRS in USD and T776 with the CRA in CAD — for the same property, in the same year. The two reports must reconcile to the same underlying transactions. BorderBird produces both views from one ledger so they can't drift.
Which exchange rate does BorderBird use?
The Bank of Canada annual average rate for the relevant tax year. CRA accepts this rate for converting foreign income; the IRS accepts the Treasury yearly average for converting CAD income. BorderBird uses Bank of Canada by default; we publish every year's rate at borderbird.com/tools/exchange-rate. We do not let you pick a per-transaction rate — the annual average is the conservative, audit-defensible choice.
How does mortgage interest vs principal work?
Mortgage interest is deductible against rental income; principal repayment is not. BorderBird's expense model has a separate field for the interest portion and the principal portion of each mortgage payment. When you import a mortgage statement, you enter both amounts (or just the totals from your year-end statement). The deductible expense view shows only the interest, while the cashflow view shows the full payment.
What's a 'held deposit' and why does it matter for cashflow?
Last-month's-rent deposits are received in cash today but represent income for a future month — possibly a future tax year. BorderBird parks them as held deposits. When the tenant gives notice, the held deposit applies to the final month and counts as rental income for that month's tax year. This matters for cash-basis reporting where the income year follows the application year, not the receipt year.
Can I see cashflow across all properties combined?
Yes. The Reports page rolls up across your portfolio, with subtotals by jurisdiction (Canadian properties · US properties) and a combined total. For a snowbird with one Toronto rental and one Phoenix rental, you see three blocks: Toronto subtotal, Phoenix subtotal, combined cross-border subtotal in CAD.
Does BorderBird show me net cash position month over month?
The Reports page focuses on tax-year totals because that's the action item — what to put on Schedule E line 21 and T776 line 9369. Monthly cash position is visible in the Payments and Expenses pages, but BorderBird is not a real-time bank-balance tool. It's a tax-prep cashflow tool.
How does this differ from cashflow in QuickBooks?
QuickBooks gives you a P&L in one base currency. To get the cross-border view BorderBird produces natively, you'd need to maintain duplicate entries in two QuickBooks files (one CAD, one USD), reconcile them manually, and apply exchange rates yourself. BorderBird does that in one ledger.
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