About
Your Partner in Tax, Succession, and Estate Planning.
Ray Loucks, CPA, CA, TEP, FEA, brings over 20 years of experience advising privately held businesses, high-net-worth individuals, and families across Canada. Specializing in income tax, business succession, and estate planning, Ray is known as a passionate problem-solver who develops flexible, practical solutions aligned with your unique goals.
Whether navigating corporate reorganizations or planning your family's legacy, Ray provides strategic guidance through the ever-evolving Canadian tax landscape. At Tranquility Tax Solutions, we provide the expertise that moves you from uncertainty to confidence so you can focus on what matters most.
Founder, Tranquility Tax Solutions
Credentials
What the letters after the name mean
Four qualifications, each awarded by a named professional body, earned over the span of a career rather than all at once.
- 2024Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA)Family Enterprise CanadaFor advisers guiding families who own and run a business together — the governance and succession side of the work, not the tax side.
- 2017Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP)STEP CanadaThe international designation for advisers who specialise in trusts and estates, awarded on examined practice rather than study alone.
- 2012CICA In-Depth Tax Course, Parts I–IIICPA CanadaThe three-year programme that is the standard training for Canadian tax specialists. All three parts completed.
- The foundationChartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant (CPA, CA)CPA CanadaCanada's professional accounting designation, and the licence everything above is built on.