In order to resolve a disciplinary proceeding before a Panel of CPABC’s Disciplinary Committee concerning professional misconduct alleged against him, Alexander Suelzle of Vancouver, British Columbia has agreed to the voluntary suspension of his membership in the Organization of Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (“CPABC”) for a period of two years and to the voluntarily cancellation of the public practice license and firm registration issued by CPABC, both commencing on October 28, 2026.
The professional misconduct alleged against Mr. Suelzle includes several breaches of the CPABC Code of Professional Conduct, including: failing to provide adequate documentation to CRA to support the amounts claimed for Input Tax Credits on GST returns; invoicing for bookkeeping services without support for such services; invoicing for filing GST returns that were filed late; submitting documents to CRA without the Complainant’s consent or prior review, contrary to the Complainant’s instructions; providing a document to CRA that contained data that was not the Complainant’s data, but rather data belonging to an unrelated entity; filing a personal tax return for the Complainant’s spouse, despite having been expressly instructed by the Complainant not to do so; failing to submit T4 Information to CRA; breaching section 15 of the Legal Profession Act by incorporating a company at the request of the Complainant; late filing GST returns for 2019, 2021 and 2022 and without notifying the Complainant; issuing Compilation financial statements, as well as the engagement and representation letters, that did not comply with the standards outlined in CSRS 4200 Compilation Engagements; failing to provide a CRA special assessment auditor with the required questionnaires and not advising the Complainant; providing inaccurate information to CRA regarding the Complainant and her spouse’s personal tax returns related to business income and expenses and rental income and expenses; submitting personal tax returns for the Complainant and her spouse claiming rental losses that did not comply with the Income Tax Act and CRA published Guides; causing numerous delays and failing to respond to communications from the Complainant; and failing to cooperate with CPABC’s investigation, in particular, failing to respond to requests for information from CPABC’s Investigator and failing to promptly produce documents when requested by the Investigator
Mr. Suelzle has admitted to the above allegations that CPABC has made against him
Mr. Suelzle has agreed to pay a fine of $25,000.00 and pay $14,000.00 towards CPABC’s costs of the disciplinary proceedings
During the two year period of the voluntary suspension of Mr. Suelzle’s membership in CPABC, he cannot use or display the designations “Chartered Professional Accountant”, or “Professional Accountant”, “Chartered Accountant”, the initials “CPA”, “CA”, “CPA, CA” or “PA”, imply, suggest, or hold out that he is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Professional Accountant or Chartered Accountant, or engage in providing or offering to provide public accounting services or other regulated services to the public.