Biographical notes for D. Blair Nixon

Contributing Editor, Sales and Use Tax (SUT) 1994–

"The Application of the Goods and Services Tax to Damage Payments and Court Costs" (1994) 3 Tax Litigation 145 (co-authored with Daryl P. Boychuk)

"The GST and Employee Benefits" (1994) 5 Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement 921 (co-authored with Vincent M. Bjorndahl)

"The Enhanced Garnishment Rule: ‘Super-Priority' of Government over Secured Creditor" (1994) 1 SUT 3 (co-authored with Vincent M. Bjorndahl)

"Application of the GST to Damage Payments Is Uncertain" (1995) 1 SUT 20 (co-authored with Craig M. McDougall)

"GST Interpretive Problems Abound in the Resource Industry" (1995) 1 SUT 49 (co-authored with Craig M. McDougall)

"Using Section 167 Election to Avoid GST on Asset Transfers" (1996) 2 SUT 62 (co-authored with Craig M. McDougall)

"Partnerships and Trusts: Substantive GST Amendments" (1996) 2 SUT 87

"Harmonized Sales Tax – Place of Supply Rules (Part I: The Framework)" (1996) 2 SUT 106 (co-authored with Craig McDougall)

"Harmonized Sales Tax – Place of Supply Rules (Part II) (1997) 3 SUT 122 (co-authored with Craig McDougall)

"GST and Real Property Rules: A Useful Primer" (1999) 4 SUT 216

Born 7 May 1956

Educated University of Alberta B.Comm. 1978; Chartered Accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta) 1984; University of Calgary LL.B. 1987

Partner, Felesky Flynn 1992–

Associate with present firm 1988-91

Called to the Bar of Alberta 1988

Articled, Macleod Dixon and Felesky Flynn 1987-88

Chair, Canadian Bar Association Sales and Commodity Tax Committee 1995-98

Chair, Canadian Bar Association Sales Tax Committee of Commodity Tax Section 1992-94

Chair, Canadian Bar Association-Alberta Tax Specialists Subsection 1991-92

Technical Advisor, Canadian Bar Association/Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Joint Committee on Taxation 1988-92