Tax issues can affect individuals, businesses, professionals, estates and investors. Whether the matter involves a CRA audit, a reassessment, a notice of objection, a Tax Court appeal, a voluntary disclosure, or tax-sensitive planning, clients require careful advice and a clear understanding of their options.
SEV LAW Professional Corporation assists with tax disputes, tax litigation, and tax-related advisory matters. Our work includes disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency, objection and appeal matters, voluntary disclosures, taxpayer relief requests, and corporate, commercial and estate matters in which tax consequences require careful consideration.
Tax matters often require both legal judgment and financial understanding. SEV LAW works with clients, accountants, and other advisors to understand the relevant facts, review the available records, assess the tax position, identify risk, and develop an appropriate strategy. In some cases, that may involve responding to a CRA audit or proposal letter. In others, it may involve filing a notice of objection, negotiating a resolution, making a voluntary disclosure, or proceeding before the Tax Court of Canada.
Our role is to identify the material legal and evidentiary issues, explain the available options, and develop a strategy suited to the client’s circumstances and objectives. We explain the issues, review the documents, assess the legal and evidentiary position, and work toward a resolution that protects the client’s interests.
Tax Disputes and CRA Matters
- SEV LAW assists with tax disputes and CRA-related matters, including:
- CRA audits
- CRA proposal letters
- Reassessments
- Notices of objection
- Tax appeals
- Tax Court of Canada proceedings
- Voluntary disclosures
- Taxpayer relief requests
- Director’s liability assessments
- Shareholder benefit issues
- Section 160 assessments
- HST and GST disputes
- Payroll and source deduction issues
- Tax debt and collection issues
- Negotiation and settlement with CRA
Tax-Realted Planning and Structuring
SEV LAW also assists with tax-sensitive legal planning in connection with corporate, commercial, estate, and succession matters. This work is often done in collaboration with accountants and other tax advisors.
Our tax related planning work includes:
- Our tax-related planning work includes:
- Corporate reorganizations
- Tax sensitive corporate structuring
- Professional corporations
- Family trusts
- Estate freezes
- Business succession planning
- Estate and succession planning
- Private corporation planning
- Family and intergenerational planning
- Rrisk assessment and disclosure strategy
SEV LAW’s tax practice is supported by the firm’s broader experience in corporate and commercial law, estates, business transactions, and litigation. This allows the firm to assist with both tax disputes and transactions or structures in which tax considerations form part of the broader legal problem.
Tax Litigation
Where a tax dispute cannot be resolved through audit response, objection, negotiation, or settlement, SEV LAW assists with tax litigation. We assess the legal and evidentiary position, organize the record, develop litigation strategy, and advance the matter before the appropriate tribunal or court.
Tax litigation requires careful preparation. Accounting records, CRA correspondence, assumptions, pleadings, supporting documents, and witness evidence must be reviewed and organized properly. SEV LAW works with clients and their advisors to present the client’s position clearly and effectively.
Our Tax Lawyer
- Syed Abid Hussain
- Founder, Principal Lawyer and Managing Director
Contact SEV LAW
For assistance with a CRA audit, notice of objection, tax appeal, voluntary disclosure, tax planning matter, or tax litigation matter, please contact SEV LAW Professional Corporation at