Changing Resident country a year after becoming a non resident of one's home country

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For tax reasons, and the ability to more easily become a non resident of canada, I am considering setting up residence in europe for a year as my home country taxes my pension income less with countries with a tax treaty.

Larger however is my investment portfolio.

My pension will be deposited in a wise account and sent to a bank accounts in the channel islands, and a bank where i reside.

I would love to set up residency in a tax free jurisdiction, but they would tax my pension more.

So my question is, after I become a resident in a higher tax jurisdiction that has a favourable tax treaty for my pension and the funds are continued to be sent via wise to at least one of the same bank accounts, would Canada be notified if i suddenly took up residency in another country? Could they find out? Do they run audits after someone has left for more then a year?

Thanks.
 
Wise is not reporting yet, that would mean‍ that if you relocate to a tax friendly country and they after a year or⁠ two start reporting than Canada will not be notified as far as I understand it.⁤
 
I wrote about this in another thread:

Going to a︇ high tax European country could cause issues since a lot of them have similar or︈ even stricter rules than Canada for cutting tax ties. That is why I suggest looking︉ into OECD countries with more flexible tax residency rules (i.e. in the developing world) which︊ have double-tax treaties with Canada.
 
Because Canada withholds 25% of my pension if i choose Dubai over⁠ say Portugal (15%).

ideally I am trying to find if there is a way to⁤ sever my ties to Canada by moving to a country with a tax treaty with⁣ Canada and then set up my residence someplace else. (ie say I set up residency⁢ in Portugal for a year and don't change my banking then set up residency in︀ Dubai or Paraguay would Canada be notified or would the notification be solely between my︁ latest country of residency and my new one?
 
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