Dates: May 5 - 7, 2024
Location: Lake Louise, Alberta
The biennial Senior Resource Tax Practitioners’ Institute is a meeting for a limited number of senior resource tax specialists from the legal and accounting professions. Many experienced practitioners have found that ordinary tax conferences or seminar arrangements do not allow for in-depth discussion of complex, and often delicate issues amongst participants who have a common high level of professional skills. The meeting is based on active participation by all in attendance, along with a few featured presentations delivered by carefully-chosen subject matter experts.
BRIAN R. CARR, LLB is of Counsel in Toronto with Thorsteinssons LLP, a boutique law firm with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. He holds a B.Sc. (1970) and an LL.B. (1973) from the University of Toronto.
Mr. Carr is a former Chair of the Canadian Tax Foundation, a Past-Chair of the National Taxation Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and former Co-Chair and Member of the CBA/CICA Joint Committee on Taxation. He is a Past-Chair of the legislative subcommittee of the Taxation Section of the Ontario Bar Association. He is currently Co-Chair of the Canadian Bar Association programme “Tax Law For Lawyers”, an educational programme designed for tax lawyers in the first three years of practice and co-editor of Resource Sector Taxation published by Federated Press. He is a former editor of the Canadian Tax Journal. Mr. Carr has served as contributing editor to Ward’s Tax Law and Planning (1983-95) and as assistant editor of the Canadian Petroleum Tax Journal (1988-96). He is the author of “Taxation of Resource Industries” (Carswell, 1987), the co-author and a co-Editor-in-Chief (with Torran Jolly, Hayley Brown and Nicholas McIsaac) of Canadian Resource Taxation” (a loose-leaf service first published by Carswell in 1996) and co-author with C Anne Calverley of Introduction to Resource Taxation in Canada (Carswell, 2014). Mr. Carr has written several articles published in the Canadian Tax Journal, the Corporate Management Tax Conference Reports, the Canadian Tax Foundation Conference Reports and the Canadian Petroleum Tax Journal.
In 1996, Mr. Carr was co-winner of the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Douglas J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award as co-author of “Today’s Butterfly,” published in the Foundation’s 1994 Conference Report. In 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to the Canadian Tax Foundation. In 2016, he was awarded the inaugural Award of Excellence by the Tax Section of the Canadian Bar Association of Ontario and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Tax Foundation. In 2022, he was granted an Arbor Award by the University of Toronto for service to the Law School of the University of Toronto.
Varugis is the President of Cambridge Executive Connections (CEC), a subsidiary of Cambridge Forums Inc. Since 2003, Varugis has held sales, production and management roles at three global conference and business information providers. Prior to joining Cambridge Forums in 2015, he was the Director of Conference Development at Insight Information, the Canadian subsidiary of ALM Media, LLC. In 2019, CEC was established as a specialised provider of sophisticated learning and networking experiences for private clients, family offices, institutional investors, and corporate leaders. Along with the flagship Forums, CEC builds Communities for members to engage and develop meaningful connections with their peers globally. As President, Varugis is responsible for the overall strategy, growth, and delivery of all services under the CEC banner.
As in past years, the objective of the meeting will be to review important current issues and developments in resources taxation, utilizing the experience of all participants.