Margaret Nixon

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2004

Areas of Practice
Taxation

Description
Margaret Nixon is a partner in the Tax Group practising in the areas of tax controversy and tax litigation. She represents corporations and individuals in tax disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency and provincial tax authorities, and has successfully represented clients at the audit and appeals levels and in litigation proceedings in the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Margaret has experience resolving disputes involving a broad range of tax issues including transfer pricing, the general anti-avoidance rule, tax treaties, foreign tax credits, withholding tax, goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax, shareholder benefits and share valuation.

Margaret was a Canadian branch reporter for the 2016 International Fiscal Association Congress in Madrid, Spain on the topic of “Dispute Resolution Procedures in International Tax Matters”.

Professional Activities
Margaret is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association and the Advocates’ Society. She is a former member of the Taxation Section Executive of the Ontario Bar Association.

Margaret has acted as a judge at the Donald G.H. Bowman National Tax Moot.

Background
Prior to joining Stikeman Elliott as a partner, Margaret was a tax partner at a law firm affiliated with one of Canada’s leading professional services firms. Before that, she was a tax litigation associate at Stikeman Elliott and another major Canadian law firm.