Beverly Gilbert

Beverly is national leader of the Commodity Tax Group at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG). Based in BLG’s Calgary office, Beverly practises exclusively in commodity tax. She has more than 20 years’ experience working with businesses to help them collect and remit Canadian commodity taxes, including GST, HST and excise tax and duties, provincial sales taxes, motive fuel taxes, insurance premium taxes, tobacco taxes, and environmental levies. She also handles tax disputes with revenue authorities for clients. This includes dealing with auditors to prevent an assessment from being issued, filing a Notice of Objection where an assessment is issued, dealing with collection actions taken by revenue authorities, and assisting with tax litigation.

Prior to joining BLG, Beverly was employed by the Canada Revenue Agency for eight years as a technical interpretation officer and senior auditor, where she developed expertise in the healthcare and not-for-profit sector. As well, she was leader of a major accounting firm’s commodity tax group in Calgary. Beverly has many clients in the oil and gas sector, and assists non-resident clients looking to do business in Canada. Her combined experience and expertise ensures that BLG’s Commodity Tax Group provides clients with the highest level of service.