Vern is exclusively involved in providing commodity tax services, including GST/HST, PST, QST and a number of other indirect taxes.

Vern has written extensively in the area of indirect taxation and has published articles in various publications, such as the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Canadian Tax Highlights and the Ontario Bar Association’s OBA Taxation Law Newsletter. Vern has spoken extensively on indirect taxation topics at a number of leading tax and law conferences.

Vern was previously a partner at a big-4 accounting firm (and affiliated law firm) in the General Toronto Area, where his practice was exclusively restricted to commodity tax. Vern has extensive experience in many areas of commodity taxes, and also represents clients in tax audits and appeals before the Canada Revenue Agency, and has represented clients at the Tax Court of Canada.