Dominic Belley

Practice Areas

Dominic Belley is a tax litigator and he is co-chair of Norton Rose Fulbright's Canadian tax team.

He has handled matters against federal and provincial tax authorities in civil, commercial, criminal and constitutional matters before the Court of Québec, the Québec Superior Court, the Québec Court of Appeal, the BC Supreme Court, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. Dominic has argued four cases before the Supreme Court of Canada as lead counsel for the appellant, the respondent and the intervener.

In 20 years of practice, Dominic has argued over 200 cases on behalf of clients in 7 out of 10 Canadian provinces.

His areas of focus include income tax, GST, fuel tax, tobacco tax, Aboriginal tax, land transfer duties, collection measures, protection of tax information, judicial review, pension plans, unclaimed property and rectifications.