Recognized in Ones to Watch since 2027 Anish Kamboj is a crypto tax lawyer in Toronto and the Principal and Founder of Solstice Law, one of the few Canadian firms devoted exclusively to crypto tax. He advises individual taxpayers, traders, high-net-worth clients, Web3 protocols, exchanges, funds, and multinationals, in Canada and across borders, and leads a team of four.
His practice has two halves. On the planning side, he structures token distributions and generation events through domestic and offshore vehicles, guides founders from startup through acquisition, advises on departure tax and jurisdictional planning for businesses and individuals relocating abroad, and addresses income, excise, provincial, and international tax exposure before it crystallizes.
On the dispute side, he represents taxpayers against the Canada Revenue Agency through audit, notice of objection, and appeal, and acts on voluntary disclosures for clients with unreported digital asset holdings.
He also advises on the regulatory perimeter that increasingly surrounds this work: anti-money laundering and FINTRAC obligations, stablecoin regulation, and the securities treatment of digital assets. Canada's proposed adoption of the OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework narrows that perimeter further, and Anish counsels exchanges, brokerages, and traders on what those reporting obligations will require of them.
Anish teaches Advanced Taxation at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and coaches its team at the Donald G.H. Bowman National Tax Moot. He has written on the taxation of cryptocurrency since 2020, in Tax Notes, Taxes & Wealth Management, the Practitioner's Income Tax Act, McCarthy Tétrault's Canada Tax Service, and the National Insolvency Review. He has presented on decentralized autonomous organizations alongside counsel from the United States, Portugal, and Norway, and has lectured on crypto asset taxation to accountants, finance professionals, and law students.
Anish was called to the Ontario bar in 2021. He holds a dual JD from the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy, and has completed the CPA In-Depth Tax Course. He is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation, the International Fiscal Association (Young IFA Network Study Group), the Metaverse Bar Association, and the Ontario and Canadian Bar Associations.
