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Audrey Diamant Recognized as the ITAC Volunteer of the Year
Posted June 23, 2009
On June 23, at the ITAC Annual Chairs’ Dinner, Audrey Diamant was recognized as the 2009 ITAC Volunteer of the Year. Audrey is the Indirect Tax Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is also considered ITAC’s resident expert on Ontario Retail Sales Tax.
Since 2002 Audrey has been working to change the rules surrounding the application of RST to ICT goods and services, which are at best notoriously difficult to navigate.
Working first as the co-chair of ITAC Ontario’s sales tax sub-committee and more recently, with ITAC’s Tax and Finance Committee, she has worked diligently to soften the impact these rules have had.
In recent years, the rules governing the application of RST have shifted, creating even more confusion, unexpected audits and significant penalties for the producers of custom software in Ontario. Audrey has written a number of papers on this and has, with ITAC, advocated strenuously for a rationalization of the rules. She has made the point many times with the Ministry of Finance that the custom software producers, and the ICT industry as a whole, craves clarity and simplicity above all, and the best way to achieve this would be retail sales tax harmonization.
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