Angela Salvatore

Angela I. Salvatore BA, JD, LLM (Taxation)
Barrister, Solicitor, and Notary Public

Angela’s practice focuses on all aspects of tax dispute resolution, commencing at the audit stage with the Canada Revenue Agency, right to the appeals’ stage at the Tax Court of Canada (and beyond, to the Federal Court of Appeal).

Her attraction to taxation law commenced in law school, as a Research Assistant for a taxation law professor. She excelled in the Master of Law (Taxation) full-time program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Angela continued to take taxation law courses post-LLM in a desire to complete all taxation law courses offered, which she has now accomplished. Combining her academic writing during the advanced degree and afterward, she has written 16 academic final papers in varied areas of taxation law. Since September 2015, she has attended over 100 continuing professional development programs in the area of taxation law.

Angela has worked at two law firms, which practice exclusively in taxation law, in Kitchener and Toronto; the former firm dealing with income tax, commodity tax, Canada Pension Plan, and Employment Insurance matters and the latter firm dealing with commodity tax and customs’ matters.

Prior to her career in taxation law, Angela spent nearly 7 years in civil litigation, and domestic family law and child protection. During this time, she worked at two law firms in the Niagara Region, operated her own practice in domestic family law and child protection, and worked as in-house legal counsel at the Children’s Aid Society of the Niagara Region. She brings to Rogerson Law Group extensive litigation experience.

Among other memberships, she is currently the Vice-Chair of the Taxation Law Section of the (Canadian) Ontario Bar Association and the first woman to hold this position. This will be her fourth year on the Executive Committee. As well, she is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation Young Practitioners Steering Committee. Angela is also currently enrolled in the CPA Canada In-Depth Tax Program.

Angela was born and raised in Niagara Falls, attended Brock University for her undergraduate degree, and continues to have strong ties to the Niagara Region. While lawyers are usually considered to be quite linear and right-brained, Angela has a creative side, too. She’s currently learning to paint in watercolour and also has an affinity for languages, having studied French, Italian, and Spanish.