{"id":699,"date":"2025-01-08T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/our-team\/me-louis-tasse\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:17:29","slug":"me-louis-tasse","status":"publish","type":"team-member","link":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/our-team\/me-louis-tasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Louis Tass\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Professional Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Me Louis Tass\u00e9 focuses his practice primarily on tax litigation, handling cases related to both income tax and sales tax. He has deep and varied experience litigating tax cases for the Crown and is well-versed on controversies affecting corporate taxpayers and understands the Crown\u2019s perspective in litigating tax cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining Alepin Gauthier, Me Tass\u00e9 practiced in one of the largest professional services and accounting firms in the world, representing clients in disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency and the Qu\u00e9bec Ministry of Revenue. Most notably, Me Tass\u00e9 successfully represented Kruger (income tax), Salaison L\u00e9vesque Inc. (sales taxes), ADP Canada Co. (large corporations tax), Ikea Ltd. (sales taxes), and Joseph Ribkoff Inc. (sales taxes). His track record of reported cases involves both income and sales taxes in the Qu\u00e9bec courts, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Tax Court of Canada, and his early career experience with Justice Canada and Revenue Canada. Louis also has extensive experience in voluntary disclosures both for income tax and sales tax matters, with the Canada Revenue Agency and Revenu Qu\u00e9bec. Me Tass\u00e9 is a prolific writer and has been quoted on three different occasions by the Tax Court of Canada and the Qu\u00e9bec Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Affiliations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Member, Association de planification fiscale et financi\u00e8re, Tax Administration Conference Committee;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Canadian Tax Foundation Member;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member, Association de planification fiscale et financi\u00e8re;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Former Governor, Canadian Tax Foundation;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Montreal, LL.B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications &#8211; events\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Preventing, Navigating and Resolving Tax Disputes&#8221;, Canadian Tax Foundation, May 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Commodity Tax \u2013 Case Law Update&#8221;, Tax Executives Institute, May 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Preventing, Navigating and Resolving Tax Disputes: A Dialogue with the Tax Court of Canada&#8221;, Canadian Tax Foundation, April 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jurisprudence fiscale et administrative&#8221;, Association de planification fiscale et financi\u00e8re, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Les agences de placement&#8221;.&#8221;Les agences de placement&#8221;, Association de planification fiscale et financi\u00e8re, March 2015.<br><br>\u201cInvoices of Accommodation: The Salaison L\u00e9vesque Inc. Case\u201d, Tax Planning International Indirect Taxes, June 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Pot-pourri en administration fiscale&#8221;, Association de planification fiscale et financi\u00e8re, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Panel sur les d\u00e9veloppements r\u00e9cents en administration fiscale&#8221;,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association de planification fiscale et financi\u00e8re, 2014.\u201cPlacement Agencies and Subcontracting \u2013 Entitlement to ITC and ITR\u201d, APFF 21 Commodity Tax Symposium, 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cLessons from the Great White North and Down Under \u2013 Thoughts on Recent Transfer Pricing Decisions\u201d, Tax Notes International, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Admission to the bar<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Quebec Bar, 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":907,"template":"","member-language":[27,26],"member-title":[25],"class_list":["post-699","team-member","type-team-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","member-language-english","member-language-french","member-title-lawyer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-member\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team-member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"member-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-language?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"member-title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alepin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-title?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}