About Danielle Loranger

Me Danielle Loranger is a tax lawyer and partner at PATENAUDE Tax + Trust. She is a member of the Quebec Bar (2000) and obtained her Trust and Estate Practitioner designation from STEP Canada in 2017. With 25 years of experience in taxation, Me Loranger has developed an expertise in Canadian tax and estate planning, as well as taxation of trusts. Prior to joining PATENAUDE Tax + Trust, she practiced with a leading accounting firm.

Me Loranger is actively involved with the Association de planification fiscale et financière (APFF) and is a frequent speaker on a wide range of topics relating to her area of expertise.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

See his presentation list

  • Speaker at the APFF 2026 Trusts Conference: “Practical Considerations Regarding Trust Compliance”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2025 Annual Conference: “Safe Income: Extraction and Allocation Techniques and Alternative Planning Strategies”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2025 Estate Settlement Seminar: Panel on “Will Drafting – Practical Considerations and Real Challenges”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2025 Estate Administration Conference: “Tax Compliance in Estate Administration”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2025 Trusts Conference: “Benefits Conferred by a Trust: Application of Section 105 of the Income Tax Act”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2024 Annual Conference: “Interactive Workshop on Mandatory and Preventive Disclosures and the New GAAR Regime”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2024 Trusts Conference: “Rollout Trusts: Tax Implications Arising from the Death of a Life Beneficiary – When Certain Post-Mortem Reflexes Must Be Set Aside”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2023 Annual Conference: “Underused Housing Tax”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2023 Trusts Conference: “Various Practical Aspects and Recent Developments in Trust Law and Taxation”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2021 Trusts Conference: “Case Studies on the 21-Year Deemed Disposition Rule”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2020 Annual Conference: “Case Study: Estate Administration”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2020 Trusts Conference: “Tax on Split Income (TOSI): Recent Developments”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2019 Annual Conference: “Recent Technical Interpretations”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2019 Estate Administration Conference: “Tax Elections Available in the Administration of an Estate”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2019 Trusts Conference: “Recent Technical Interpretations in Trust Taxation”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2018 Annual Conference: “Application of the New Income Splitting Rules: Is This the End of Family Trusts?”
  • Speaker at the FCF 2018 Annual Conference: “Workshop on Tax on Split Income (TOSI)”
  • Speaker at the CPA Canada 2018 Annual Conference: “Tax on Split Income (TOSI)”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2018 Trusts Conference: “Recent Technical Interpretations”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2016 Trusts Conference: “Trust Planning: Pitfalls to Avoid”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2015 Annual Conference: “Post-Mortem Planning: When Holdings of Private Company Shares Create Technical Challenges”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2015 Trusts Conference: “Post-Mortem Planning: When Holdings of Private Company Shares Create Technical Challenges”
  • Speaker at the APFF 2010 Trusts Conference: “Asset Protection Through Trusts: Myth or Reality and What Are the Limits?”

Professional membership

  • Quebec Bar (2000)

Education

  • Graduate Diploma in Taxation, Université de Sherbrooke (2001)
  • Quebec Bar School, Ottawa (1999)
  • Civil Law Degree, University of Ottawa (1998) (magna cum laude)

Other memberships

  • Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
  • Member of the Association de planification fiscale et financière (APFF)
  • Member of the Organizational Committee of the APFF’s Trust Seminar
  • Member of the Organizational Committee of the APFF’s Annual Conference
  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the APFF’s Estate Administration Conference
  • Lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke, Master’s degree in taxation program, 2015-2016
  • Lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke, Graduate program in notarial law, 2011-2013

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