Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Canada
Joel Alan Nitikman
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
15th Floor
1040 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, V6E4H8
Canada
Tel: (1) 604 443 7115
Fax: (1) 604 683 5214
Email: joel.nitikman@fmc-law.com
Website: www.fmc-law.com
Joel is currently a tax partner with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, one of the largest law
firms in Canada. For over 20 years Joel’s practice has focused on resolving tax disputes
between tax payers and federal and provincial tax authorities. He has acted as counsel in
numerous tax cases at all levels of courts both provincially and federally, and has also
settled many cases out of court at the pre-assessment or objection stage. Joel is listed as
one of Canada’s leading tax litigators by Lexpert and is AV peer-rated (the highest possible
rating) by Martindale-Hubbell.
Joel’s skills include organizing a complex set of data, analysing and structuring the data to
determine the relevant tax issues, preparing witnesses for court, drafting legal pleadings
and substantive arguments, excellent oral advocacy skills, excellent legal research, the
ability to persuade and reason in a complex environment and the ability to assimilate a
large number of facts quickly.
Joel has been involved in extensive provincial, federal and international income, GST and
commodity tax planning (including cross-border tax planning for the entertainment
industry, offshore trusts, Canada-US corporate reorganizations, Canadian investment in
the US, US investment in Canada and cross-border estate planning). Joel is listed as one
of Canada’s leading corporate tax lawyers by Lexpert and has acted for numerous private
and public companies on complex, tax-efficient restructurings. Joel has obtained
numerous advance rulings from Revenue Canada and provincial tax authorities. Joel’s
abilities include creativity and the ability to think “outside the box” in completing new tax
structures to achieve maximum tax efficiency. Joel has advised on non-profit and other
tax-exempt entities, including Crown corporations and trusts.
Joel has had extensive involvement with structuring and opining on public offerings of
tax-related securities. He has acted as an expert tax witness in civil litigation for
plaintiffs and defendant and in expropriations. In doing so, Joel has developed the
ability to explain complex technical tax issues in “layman’s language” so that a non-tax
judge can understand them.
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