Neil Bass LL.B., Partner

Neil is highly acclaimed in the fields of tax litigation and commodity taxation, including goods and services tax and harmonized sales tax (GST/HST), provincial sales tax (PST), and international customs duties, and is the leader of Fraser Milner Casgrain’s National Sales and Commodity Tax Group. He has extensive experience in dealing with various taxation authorities and has represented clients before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, as well as before Provincial Courts. Neil served on the CBA/CICA Joint Legislation Review Committee that reviewed the draft legislation which amended the Canadian Excise Tax Act. 

Neil has authored numerous articles and conference papers on the GST/HST and was a co-editor of Canadian GST and Commodity Tax Cases published by CCH Canada Limited. Neil has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the area of commodity tax in prominent legal and other professional directories including, most recently, International Tax Review.

Neil continues to address audiences on a variety of commodity tax matters and is a past presenter at the CICA Commodity Tax Symposium and the Canadian Tax Foundation Conference. Neil was also awarded the 1999 Normand Guerin Award for his “outstanding contribution to the study of commodity taxation”.