About the author
Paul DioGuardi, QC has been a tax lawyer and litigator for 48 years. A graduate of Queen’s Law School in Kingston Ontario, he took his call to the bar in 1966 and immediately joined the Department of National Revenue as junior counsel. Later he moved to the Department of Justice, appearing as Counsel for the Canada Revenue Agency. Thereafter, in private practice he has represented both individuals and corporations in tax matters, and has developed important relationships within the CRA with people, processes, and channels of escalation for review by true decision makers. His firm, DioGuardi Tax Law, has offices in Mississauga, downtown Toronto and downtown Ottawa. His son Philippe DioGuardi, practices with him in the Toronto and Mississauga offices. His daughter Brigitte, practices in the firm’s Ottawa office.
Paul has co-authored two previous tax books with Philippe DioGuardi: Tax Amnesty: Avoiding the Tax Trap
(On Tax Publications Inc, 2004) and The Taxman is Watching: What Canadians Need to Know and Fear (HarperCollins Canada, 2008).