Strategies for Success: Mastering the Art of Compliance and Controversy in the Evolving Tax Audit Landscape
This comprehensive course delves into the complexities of navigating indirect tax audits, specifically focusing on the evolving financial landscape post-COVID-19. Designed for accountants and financial professionals, the course offers in-depth insights into compliance, controversies, and the economic impacts affecting businesses today. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the tax assessment process, learn best practices for managing audits, and develop strategies for dealing with the CRA and other financial institutions. Through a series of detailed slides, the course covers a wide range of topics, from navigating tax audits and understanding the process of tax assessment to mastering voluntary disclosures and exploring the challenges of GST, HST, and indirect tax assessment.
Key Topic Discussed:
Post-COVID Financial Landscape
Audit Backlogs and Processing Delays
Taxpayer Relief Requests
Audit Best Practices in the Pandemic Era
Tax Assessment and Objection Process
Effective Documentation and Opposition Filing
Challenges and Strategies in Financial Appeals
Professional Interactions and Personality Traits
Tax Disputes and Business Challenges
GST, HST, and Voluntary Disclosures
Tax Disclosures and Audit Trends
Voluntary Disclosures in GST
Best Practices in Tax Compliance and Audits
Indirect Tax Assessment Challenges
For the last 20+ years, I have enjoyed assisting clients with their indirect tax obligations and savings opportunities, with clients across numerous sectors, and around the globe. I have worked with many oil and gas exploration and production, oilfield services, petroleum product marketing, renewable energy and power generation, real estate development and construction clients and nearly everything in between, on various indirect tax planning, controversy and audit support as well as compliance. I have also worked with several multi-national software and digital services companies, striving to comply with the new remote seller rules under the GST/HST and provincial sales tax regimes in Canada. I work frequently with non-resident clients on cross-border indirect tax issues related to setting up operations in Canada or doing business with their customers in Canada. Throughout my firm career and now under my own practice, I have concentrated my service offering in the area of GST/HST, but also focused on the various Canadian Provincial Sales Taxes as well as excise, carbon and fuel taxes. I am a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta and am also the past co-chair of the Sales and Indirect Tax Committee of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and held the role of committee's provincial sales tax Director and Liaison. I have been an active member of the Canadian Petroleum Tax Society and have presented indirect tax updates and papers at the Society's annual conference and monthly luncheons. I have been an active member of the US Institute of Professionals in Taxation and sat on the annual VAT and Sales Tax Symposia organizing committee and frequently presented at the annual event. I am also a former member of CPA Canada's Annual "The One" conference organizing committee.
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