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Thomas Boddez

Vancouver Office

(604) 602-4260

Thomas Boddez is a partner of Thorsteinssons LLP. He has served as the Managing Partner, and also as a Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation. He received his LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto and his B.Comm. degree from the University of Alberta. He was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1993.

Tom is a member of the Thorsteinssons tax litigation group, recently recognized for 2007 as the “Canadian Tax Litigation Firm of the Year” by the International Tax Review, which in September 2011 also recognized Tom as one of Canada’s leaders in the field of tax controversies.

Tom’s civil litigation practice includes representation of taxpayers in the audit and appeal processes with the Canada Revenue Agency, appeals to the Tax Court of Canada, Federal Court and provincial superior courts, and further appeals to the Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Tom’s criminal litigation practice focuses on tax evasion investigations, trials and appeals, including the conduct of voir dire’s to determine the admissibility of evidence in light of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Major litigation matters have included leading Supreme Court of Canada decisions on the reasonable expectation of profit test, and on the line between civil audits and criminal tax investigations, a successful class action seeking the recovery of interest improperly collected by the CRA and cases involving non-resident withholding taxes, the taxation of timber resource properties, foreign exchange gains, commodity trading, civil penalties, joint liability assessments and a variety of other tax issues including obtaining rectification orders. He has successfully negotiated favourable settlements in the majority of cases handled each year.

Tom has lectured on taxation matters for the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC, the University of British Columbia, the Law Society Professional Legal Training Course, the Tax Executives Institute, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia, the Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia, the Asia Pacific Business & Law Institute, the British Columbia Medical Association and at numerous other conferences. He is the author of several articles on various aspects of taxation law.