Business
Tax
Local or international, we have you covered for tax planning. From corporate reorganizations to the formation of business structures in the USA or the Far East and Europe in conjunction with our worldwide Meritas Law affilition, we approach all tax services with a focus on you and your business’s needs.
Our team is poised to assist you with your tax planning and tax disputes.
For Canadian clients, we advise on corporate reorganizations, intergenerational business transfers, corporate succession, mergers and acquisitions, estate planning, and the preservation of wealth. We are also privileged to provide unique tax and legal expertise in the establishment of First Nation business structures.
We also offer tax dispute resolution with Canadian tax authorities through our Tax Disputes Practice Group. Click here to learn more.
We are one of the largest groups of lawyers that are part of Meritas® Canada Tax, a collection of Canadian firms that work together with the international Meritas affiliation. As such, we are uniquely positioned to advise international clients on a variety of tax matters both proactively and to defend contentious matters in collaboration with your international Meritas affiliations.
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Tax effective corporate planning and reorganization are a staple of Boughton Law’s tax services, including with regard to estate freezes and intergenerational business transfers. Hand in hand with these, our team regularly prepares and services planning involving professional corporations and trusts, such as Family Trusts and Joint Partner and Alter Ego Trusts.
Boughton Law also assists with creating and implementing structures to maximize the tax outcome in the course of the sale of a business, including considerations and structuring for lifetime capital gains exemptions. Our robust mergers & acquisitions, employment, and litigation teams operate to provide a full complement of services for our business clients.
The tax group at Boughton Law has advised numerous First Nations in British Columbia and the far North involving hundreds of millions in investment funds regarding tax effective First Nation Trust settlements and related business partnership structures, as well as updating First Nation Trust structures to take full advantage of current tax interpretations by the government of Canada.
Boughton Law Contact: Rose Shawlee, William H. Cooper, and Catherine Kim
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2007 – 2009 Completed extensive business structure reviews and provided recommendations for restructuring for three Indigenous Peoples.
Boughton Law Contact: William H. Cooper and Jeffrey S. Glasner2007 – 2009 Provided tax dispute services related to business structure for businesses operated by Indigenous individuals.
Boughton Law Contact: Jeffrey S. Glasner
