Randy Beyers
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Susan Block
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Marcie Sattler-Smith
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Sandra Smith
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Sylvain Thibeault
Principal, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
Garry Winkel
Principal, Practice Leader, Sales and Use Tax
Indirect Tax
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Our tax professionals provide industry-leading excise tax-planning strategies for fuel-intensive businesses. We identify and implement significant fuel and excise tax savings in Canada, refine your procurement processes, and maintain multijurisdictional compliance. We also offer audit support and compliance services that minimize exposure, mitigate risk, and maximize capital through tax savings.
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Overview
We provide comprehensive excise tax services that go beyond compliance management to unlock strategic value for your business. Our services standardize and simplify complex workflows, streamlining tax operations to improve efficiency while ensuring you remain compliant with the Canadian Excise Tax Act across every jurisdiction. Through rigorous audit support, we mitigate risk and fiercely advocate for your tax position.
We serve fuel-intensive industries, including transportation, construction, and fuel distribution, bringing the specialized expertise required to navigate the nuances of excise tax. By combining deep local knowledge with advanced technology, we create customized strategies that ensure you pay only what you owe and nothing more.
Tax Services
We provide end-to-end excise tax solutions designed to help Canadian businesses expertly navigate the full lifecycle of fuels and excise tax obligations. Our process proactively identifies recovery opportunities, ensures alignment with shifting regulations, and provides the global leadership and precision necessary to protect your business.
Proven Results
We transform excise tax from a compliance burden into a source of strategic capital. Our unrivaled results and industry-leading service mean we deliver what matters most to your business: capital optimization and operational efficiency. By uncovering savings opportunities and securing tax reductions, we help channel critical capital back into your business for reinvestment.
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Our Approach
We pair deep technical expertise with innovative, tech-enabled workflows to ensure total alignment across federal, provincial, and local regulations. Our advisory extends into strategic procurement reviews, where we analyze fuel spend by equipment type to uncover tax-efficient solutions, such as dyed or bonded fuel structures, eliminating the need for manual refund filings. By streamlining documentation and optimizing procurement structure, we boost administrative efficiency and improve financial planning accuracy.
Proactive Exposure Analysis
We turn audit vulnerability into asset protection by meticulously analyzing reporting workflows to identify and resolve potential lapses before they trigger taxing authority scrutiny.
Defensible Documentation Management
Our team delivers audit-ready documentation and manages the daily information flow between your organization and regulatory agencies, ensuring total clarity and security throughout the audit process.
Accelerated Dispute Resolution
Our industry-leading tax controversy expertise allows us to navigate complex negotiations and fast-track resolutions, significantly reducing the administrative burden and costs associated with prolonged disputes.
Our Approach
We deliver a sophisticated, end-to-end framework for identifying and capturing redundant tax expenditures, transforming overlooked costs into critical capital for reinvestment. Our exclusive tax focus allows us to move beyond basic reviews to conduct thorough, multijurisdictional analyses, defining available exemptions and credits that align with your unique business model. By proactively addressing pending statutes of limitations, our experts mitigate the risk of lost recoveries while implementing system improvements to eliminate future overpayment leakage.
We deliver excise tax solutions for the transportation industry, uncovering innovative savings and recovery opportunities for your fuel-intensive fleet.
Our experts help construction leaders navigate complex excise tax codes, ensuring you only pay what you owe, while securing the fuel tax credits you’re entitled to.
We streamline compliance for fuel distributors and wholesalers, using advanced technology to simplify reporting and protect your tax position.
We create customized excise tax strategies for heavy manufacturing, identifying provincial and international exemptions to free up capital.
