Jean-Hugues Chabot

Jean-Hugues is the leader of the Indirect Tax practice for Canada and the Americas value-added tax (VAT) Leader at EY.

As Americas VAT Leader, Jean-Hugues’ role consists of building dedicated VAT practices across the Americas in countries where there is currently either a VAT system or proposals to implement a VAT system.

He has experience serving both public and private companies in the retail, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications, transportation and services sectors. He also serves many public organizations. For some years now, Jean-Hugues has also been working on indirect tax effective supply chain management projects including in-depth analysis of GST and customs on cross-border transactions.

Fluent in English and French, Jean-Hugues is a frequent speaker on the subject of indirect tax and customs and was a lecturer in the Masters Program in Tax at the University of Sherbrooke. He is also the author of a number of articles for various magazines and newspapers and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) has appointed him a “GST Leader.”