Brett Anderson

With extensive tax law experience, Brett specializes in corporate tax planning, focusing on public reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, international tax and dispute resolution.

Brett is ranked as a Canadian Lexpert® leading lawyer, shaping tax and business strategies as one of our co-managing partners in Calgary. He is consistently recognized as a leading tax lawyer by Best Lawyers in Canada and most recently named in Lexpert’s American Lawyer Guide to Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.

Holding his Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws degrees, he brings deep technical knowledge and problem-solving skills, allowing him to achieve the best results for his clients. He also gives back to the community as a board member for Pro Bono Law Alberta.

Brett shares his tax law knowledge and expertise both as a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law and as a speaker at a variety of tax conferences, seminars and industry association meetings.

Credentials

Called to the Alberta Bar, 2004
Law Clerk to the Honourable Justice John C. Major at the Supreme Court of Canada, 2003-2004
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (with Distinction), University of Calgary, 2003
Awarded the William A. McGillivray Gold Medal in Law
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), University of Calgary, 1998

Memberships & Affiliations

Member, Law Society of Alberta
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Board Member, Pro Bono Law Alberta (former Vice-chair)
Former Board Chair, Children’s Legal & Educational Resource Centre (CLERC)
Past Chair, Taxation Non-Specialists Sub-Section, Alberta Branch, Canadian Bar Association
Member, Canadian Petroleum Tax Society
Member of Counsel, International Fiscal Association, Canadian Branch
Member of Canadian Tax Foundation

Publications and Presentations

Co-Authored, Overview of Canadian Fiscal and Tax Administrative Measures in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Bulletin for International Taxation, Vol. 74, No. 8, July 2020
Co-Presenter, “Review and Update on the Canadian Transfer Pricing Regime and Emerging Global Issues”, FF Tax Series, October 2019
Co-Presenter, “Review and Update International Outbound Taxation”, FF Tax Series, May 2019
Canadian Tax Foundation, Annual Conference “Mobility and Executive Compensation”, 2019
Canadian Tax Foundation, Annual Conference Practitioner’s Forum, 2016
Canadian Tax Foundation, Annual Conference “Practical Implementation Issues Arising from the Foreign Affiliate Dumping Rules”, 2014
International Fiscal Association, 2014 Joint Canada – USA International Tax Seminar, “Recent U.S. and Canadian Cases Dealing with International Tax Matters”, May 2014
Canadian Bar Association, Tax Specialists, “Hot Topics in International Tax”, January 2014
Step Canada, Annual Conference, “Aggressive Tax Reporting”, 2013
Tax Executives’ Institute, “Current Cases”, 2013
Canadian Tax Foundation – Annual Conference “The Taxation of Employee Compensation”, 2013
Sessional Professor of Tax Law, Faculty of Law, the University of Calgary, 2009 to 2012
Canadian Tax Foundation – Annual Conference “The Taxation of Employee Compensation”, 2012
Canadian Petroleum Tax Society – Fall Lecture Series “Limits on Deferral Partnerships”, 2011
Canadian Tax Highlights, “Partnership Income Deferral Limited”, 2011
Canadian Petroleum Tax Society, Annual Conference, “Executive Compensation: Issues in a Falling Market”, 2009
Tax for the Owner Manager, “Lipson: Certainty and Predictability or Certainly Unpredictable”, 2009
26th Annual C.A. Small Practitioners Forum, Banff, Alberta, “Selected 2009 Tax Cases”, 2009
25th Annual C.A. Small Practitioners Forum, Banff, Alberta, “Income Tax Update”, 2008
Canadian Tax Foundation Prairie Provinces Tax Conference, “An Introduction to Outbound Investment”, 2008
Canadian Bar Association, Tax Non-Specialists, “Taxation of Partnerships”, 2007
24th Annual C.A. Small Practitioners Forum, Banff, Alberta, “Recent Tax Cases”, 2007
Canadian Petroleum Tax Society – Fall Lecture Series, “Dissolution of a Partnership”, 2006
Sessional Professor of Trust Law, Faculty of Law, the University of Calgary, 2006 and 2007

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