Jaqueline Sanderson
Avocate Fiscaliste
Major Professional Experience
2009-present
Tax Lawyer
Private Practice - Montreal
- corporate tax consulting – small to medium sized businesses;
- preparing and pleading tax litigation files at both the Tax Court of Canada, Quebec Court and Federal Courts;
- performing sub-contracting tax work for small and medium sized accounting and law firms; and
- providing legal services in corporate and civil matters and pleading in Superior Court, Quebec Court and Quebec Court of Appeal in other legal matters.
May 2015- July 2016
Senior Manager
PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP - Montreal
- senior manager in corporate tax services group;
- revising provisions for income taxes with respect to audited consolidated and non-consolidated financial statements prepared according to G.A.A.P.;
- examining corporate income tax returns and partnership returns;
- advising audit and other clients on income tax issues;
- responding to tax authorities with respect to various tax issues; and
- performing tax research and remaining current with income tax developments.
2007- 2009
Tax Associate
BCF LLP - Montreal
- specializing in all corporate tax matters including cross-border financing and investing, corporate reorganizations, estate planning and litigation;
- assisting to establish a more integrated tax group;
- drafting tax opinions and transaction structuring and restructuring memoranda;
- performing due diligence relating to corporate target acquisitions; and
- drafting and revising various types of contracts and other corporate documents including asset and share purchase agreements, leases, wills, trusts, loans and non-compete contracts.
Education
2023
Common law
Université de Sherbrooke
2003
CICA In-Depth Tax Course
1997 - 1998
Quebec Bar school and stage
University of Ottawa
1994 - 1997
Faculty of Law
McGill University
1990 - 1994
Bachelor of Commerce with a major in accounting and minor in finance
Concordia University
Bursaries and Award
1996
Carswell prize for Evidence under Civil Law (University of Ottawa)
1996
Bursary for outstanding academic results (University of Ottawa)
1994 - 1995
Bursary for studying in a second language (Quebec Government)
Publications and Recognized Contributions
- “La rectification des actes juridiques n’est pas toujours automatique” (May 2008) 10 Fiscalité Bulletin CCH;
- “Le contrôle par une fiducie” (April 2008) 10 Fiscalité Bulletin CCH;
- “Double Taxation on Cross-Border Pension Contributions” (January 11, 2002) 31 Tax Management International Journal
- Nathan Boidman, “Cross-Border Amalgamations” in Report of Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Tax Conference (Toronto: Canadian Tax Foundation, 2001) 26:1.
- Nathan Boidman, “Canadian Tax Treaty Rules for the Taxation of Real Estate” in Special Seminar on Canadian Tax Treaties: Policy & Practice (Toronto: International Fiscal Association, 2001) 17:1.
CICA In-Depth Tax Course
2006- 2007
Senior Manager
Deloitte & Touche LLP, Toronto
- used various structures to transfer losses between corporations, notwithstanding change of ownership and potential change of control; and
- prepared tax plans to avoid the application of tax shelter rules for a major bank.
2005 – 2006
Associate
Moskowitz & Meredith LLP, Toronto
- performing research on numerous federal, provincial and international income tax issues;
- drafting internal and external memoranda on corporate income and sales tax issues; and
- making presentations to both external and internal groups.
1999 – 2005
Tax Associate
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
- specializing in all corporate and international tax matters including cross-border financing and investing, corporate reorganizations, estate planning and litigation;
- performing research on numerous federal, provincial and international income tax issues;
- drafting internal and external memoranda on corporate income and sales tax issues;
- submitting to the Canada Revenue Agency and Revenu Québec notices of objections and appeals for corporate and individual taxpayers;
- obtaining advanced income tax rulings from the Canada Revenue Agency;
- drafting tax planning memoranda; implementing numerous transactions and estate plans and preparing related corporate and tax agreements and other documents; and
- drafting tax disclosure required for prospectuses for several public transactions including the following public deals:
- o CIT and Newcourt
- o Lojack and Boomerang
- o Molson and Coors
- o Pharmacia and Monsanto Company
