Looking for a Quebec-based, bilingual tax lawyer/accountant

April 5, 2011 10:27 AM

I need an effective and bilingual Quebec-based tax lawyer/accountant to deal with my friends at Revenu Quebec.

I've not lived in la belle province since 2004. Paid a big provincial tax bill in 2005. Notices of reassessment allegedly went to an old address in Toronto in 2008; just last week, a collection agency came looking for the $4000+ the province says I owe as a result of that reassessment. Calls to Revenue Quebec to get a copy of my reassessment have been, to be generous and polite, ineffective. Thus, I'd like to retain the services of a Quebec-based tax lawyer/accountant to take clean up this Kafka-esque mess for me.

posted by docgonzo to Work & Money (4 answers total)

I've had a similar experience (except the MRQ had my money). I can't help you on the lawyer front, but I will say that calls are pretty much useless. To have even a chance of success, you need to write letters. I've had the best success writing a letter literally begging (in English) to be sent the correct paperwork. Good luck; Quebec government bureaucracy is mind-bogglingly difficult to deal with.
posted by ssg at 10:45 AM on April 5, 2011

I have worked with Roll Harris & Associates, although not for tax stuff. They were fine, not astoundingly great or anything, but like I said it's a big firm and I've never dealt with their tax guys.
posted by phoenixy at 11:29 AM on April 5, 2011

MeMail me and I'll hook you up with my accountant in Montreal.
posted by musofire at 12:37 PM on April 5, 2011

Response by poster: Thanks, all. A good friend hooked me up with hers. Rubano Scalia Inc., if anyone's looking.

http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Quebec/Saint-Leonard/Rubano-Scalia-Inc/4233640.html
posted by docgonzo at 4:24 PM on April 7, 2011