Sindy Wong
Partner - Tax
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Sindy has over ten years of experience in tax. She spent five years practicing at a national firm and three years as a senior tax manager at CHC Helicopters. Sindy joined Smythe in 2009 as a senior tax manager where she found her passion advising owner-managed businesses. Sindy specializes in tax planning including corporate reorganizations, estate & succession planning, in-bound investments & structuring, personal tax planning and GST.
Sindy was born in China and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was two years old. She graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Commerce as a finance major and achieved her CA designation in January 2004. Sindy is a member of the CPABC-CRA Commodity Tax Liaison Committee and the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Publications
- “Section 84.1 – The Trap That Commonly Trips” Beyond Numbers, January 2013
- “Estate Planning – What You Don’t Know Could Hurt the Next Generation” The Apartment Owner, Fall 2012 Volume 36 Number 3
Speaking Engagements
- “Estate Planning: Where are we now?” at the Canadian Tax Foundation’s 2016 British Columbia Tax Conference – September 2016
- “Tax Strategies” at Clark Wilson’s How to Buy or Sell a Business – May 2016
- “Canadian Tax Update” at Landlord BC’s Education Day – February 2016
- “Estate Administration” at the Pacific Business & Law Institute’s Administration of Probate – January 2015
- “International Tax Update” at Smythe’s Let’s Talk Cross Border Seminar – May 2013
- “Estate Planning” at the BCAOMA semi-Annual General Meeting – October 2012
