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Old Jul 1, 2014 | 8:58 am
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Originally Posted by Wallace99
You are allowed to take/bring an unlimited amount of money, they just want hard cash report so they can track it/make sure its not coming from illegal sources etc. you can take out 50 grand and head to Vegas, as long as you declare it and can show it came out of your bank account and money was obtained legally no one will stop you.

CC are the most traceable things out there, hence no one is funnelling money with CC.
Exactly -- it's not the >$10k that bothers them, it's the undeclared >$10k that the CBSA is after.

BTW I highly recommend Border Security. It's surprisingly entertaining and informative. I think some episodes are on YouTube and the show airs daily on the National Geographic channel.
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