The tax group at Deloitte Legal Canada LLP takes care of tax planning and tax litigation, its offering taking in aspects such as income tax, GST, HST and provincial sales tax and customs. Five partners share leadership: firm national lead Olivier Fournier and Aicha Nafii are based in Montreal; Joel Scheuerman works from the Calgary office; Joyce Lee KC, from Vancouver; and Michael Collinge, from Toronto.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The Deloitte Legal tax team advised us on a very complicated tax matter and provided us with excellent and pragmatic advice.'

  • ‘Joel Sheuerman guided us through a tax matter that was critically important to our business and was able to boil down a very complicated area of the law into very practical and efficient advice. He was also just a real pleasure to work with.'

Key clients

  • Pier 1 Imports (U.S.)
  • Profitable Giving Canada

Work highlights

  • Represented Pier 1 Imports in a dispute with the Canada Border Services Agency regarding the proper value for duty of goods imported to Canada.
  • Acted for five individuals, taxpayers who donated pharmaceuticals to Canadian charitable organisations, before the Tax Court of Canada.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Olivier Fournier, Aicha Nafii, Joel Scheuerman, Joyce Lee KC, Michael Collinge