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Kanav Behal, Manager, Tax & Accounting at SDG Accountant
Manager, Tax & Accounting

KANAV BEHAL

Kanav Behal is a Manager at SDG Accountant, where he leads complex personal and corporate tax files, with a particular focus on voluntary disclosures, foreign reporting and cross-border tax. Trained in the Big 4 over more than a decade, he brings large-firm technical depth to individuals, families and owner-managed businesses who need a tax problem solved properly and explained plainly.

Phone Number

+ 1 (416) 755-3000

Email Address

admin@sdgaccountant.com

Location

Toronto, ON, Canada
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The Big 4 foundation. Kanav started his career at PwC in 2008 and spent more than a decade in the Big 4, building deep expertise in corporate structuring, international tax and financial advisory. That is where he picked up the habits that still define his work: go to the legislation, document every position, and never file anything you can’t defend.

Voluntary disclosures. At SDG, a large share of Kanav’s practice is the CRA’s Voluntary Disclosures Program. He guides clients through multi-year disclosures of unreported foreign income, offshore bank and investment accounts, foreign rental properties and missed T1135 filings, including disclosures for estates and long-term non-filers. His focus is getting the facts right, quantifying the exposure honestly and putting forward a complete, well-supported application.

Technical depth. Beyond VDP, his work covers foreign reporting (T1135, and T1134 for foreign affiliates including U.S. LLCs), non-resident and departure matters (Section 116 clearance certificates, departure tax and residency determinations), GST/HST (new residential rental property rebates, self-supply rules, zero-rated exports and clean-ups for businesses that never filed), and owner-manager planning for Canadian-controlled private corporations, from holding company structures to TOSI and section 85 rollovers.

Accounting that holds up. Kanav is equally at home in the books. He oversees year-end close, T2 corporate returns, compilation engagements and catch-up bookkeeping for businesses that have fallen behind, so the numbers behind every return are solid before anything goes to the CRA.

How he works. Kanav’s approach is direct: lay out the options, the exposure and the cost up front, then get it done. His experience as an angel investor and General Partner of Venture Capital Corporations in Canada adds an investor’s lens to how he looks at owner managed businesses — how they are structured, funded and set up to grow.

Areas of expertise

  • Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP) — multi-year disclosures, unreported foreign income, estates and non-filers
  • Foreign reporting — T1135, T1134, foreign tax credits
  • Non-resident tax — Section 116 / T2062, departure tax, residency status
  • Canada–U.S. cross-border tax — individuals, U.S. LLCs and cross-border entities
  • GST/HST  — rental property rebates, self-supply, exports, CRA assessments
  • Corporate tax and owner-manager planning — T2, holding companies, TOSI, section85 rollovers
  • CRA reviews and correspondence — audits, reassessments, arbitrary assessments
  • Accounting — year-end close, compilation engagements, bookkeeping catch-up, charity and not-for-profit filings

Credentials and education

  • Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com)
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B)
  • Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
  • 15+ years in tax and accounting, including more than a decade in the Big 4