Davies | Geoffrey S. Turner

Taxation

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International Fiscal Association
Canadian Tax Foundation

The Global Section 95 Election and Other Elections for Post-1994 Application of Foreign Affiliate Amendments

The Reconsidered 95(2)f), (f.1), and (f.2) Foreign Affiliate Income Computation and Calculating Currency Proposals

Article - Another Bump on The Road -- The 88(1)(C)(Vi)(B)(Iii) Anomaly

Finance's May 14, 2007 Revised Interest Deductibility Proposals -- An "Anti-Double-Dip Initiative''

Article - Bumping Foreign Affiliate Shares under the February 27, 2004 Proposals

Article - Finance Comfort Letter on the 95(2)(f) and (f.1) FAPI Accrual Rules – A Comment on its Implications for the Tax Cost Bump

Article - Bumps on the Road to the Bump: Deficiencies in the Specified Property Exception

Article - Property Distributions Under the Canadian Foreign Affiliate Proposals

Article - Foreign Affiliate Liquidation and Merger Rollovers: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Be?

Article - Canada-U.S. Competent Authority MOU: First Steps to Mandatory Arbitration?

Article - Gasoline Taxes as Environmental Policy - Time for a Common Canada-U.S. Approach

Article - Withholding Tax on Loans from Schedule III Banks

Article - Foreign Spin-offs and Cross-Border Share Exchange Transactions

Article - Exchangeable Shares: Achieving Deferral in a Cross-Border Acquisition

Article - Interprovincial Income Allocation: The Permanent Establishment Threshold in the E-Commerce World

Ontario Bar, 1993

Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.M.
University of Toronto, LL.B. (Honours)
Queen’s University, B.A. (Honours) (Gold Medallist in Economics)

Geoff Turner is a partner in the taxation group. His practice concentrates on all aspects of domestic and international tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and corporate finance.

In recent years, Geoff has practised extensively in the international tax area, with a particular focus on foreign affiliate reorganizations and cross-border transactions. Geoff has had a major role in numerous transactions involving Barrick Gold Corporation, including as lead tax counsel in its US$10.4 billion takeover bid for Placer Dome Inc.

Geoff is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Western Ontario Law School where he has been teaching International Tax Law since 1999 and was awarded the UWO Students' Council teaching award of excellence in 2001 and 2007. In addition, Geoff has had several teaching assignments at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he lectured in International Tax Law from 2004 to 2005 and since 2005 has been teaching the tax component of the Advanced Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop. Geoff also was an instructor for the Tax Law section of the Ontario Bar Admission Course from 1995 through 2002.

Geoff is a frequent author on tax policy and cross-border tax issues. He is a contributing editor for the "International Tax" newsletter published by CCH, and is a member of the editorial board for the "Corporate Structures and Groups" journal published by Federated Press.

Geoff received his International Baccalaureate from Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in 1985 and obtained his B.A. (Honours) from Queen's University (Gold Medallist in Economics) in 1988. In 1991 he received his LL.B. (Honours) from the University of Toronto and in 2005 he received his LL.M. (specialization in Tax) from Osgoode Hall Law School. Geoff commenced his articles with Davies in 1991, was called to the Ontario bar in 1993 and became a partner in 1995.