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Harjot Mehmi
Assistant Professor
DepartmentAccounting
EducationBBA, MBA, PhD
Phone416-979-5000 ext. 552450
Overview
Harjot Mehmi is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Ted Rogers School of Management. His teaching interests are in financial accounting and taxation. His research interests include corporate taxation, individual taxation, financial reporting, and corporate governance. He obtained an Accounting PhD, Master of Business Administration (MBA), and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.
His PhD dissertation examines environmental and governance factors associated with corporate tax avoidance. His PhD dissertation also includes a bibliometric analysis of the corporate tax avoidance literature.
| Refereed Journal Articles |
| Farrar, J., Farrar, T., & Mehmi, H. (2025). Are Judges Influenced by Dollar Amounts? Evidence from Tax Law. Forthcoming, Dalhousie Law Journal, 48(2). ABDC quality list: A |
| Farrar, J., & Mehmi, H. (2024). The Association Between Fairness and Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from Tax Law. Florida Tax Review, 27, 586. ABDC quality list: A |
| Non-academic Publication |
| Program Evaluation Division. (2024). Evaluation – The CRA's Management of Interrelated Businesses. Canada Revenue Agency. |
| Book Chapter |
| Farrar, J., Guo, L., & Mehmi, H. (2025) Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Behavioral Accounting Research. In T. Libby & L. Thorne (eds.), Routledge Companion to Behavioral Accounting Research, 2nd ed. (pp. 511-518). Routledge: New York, NY. |
| Research in Progress |
| Mehmi, H. Bibliometric, Environmental, and Governance Research on Corporate Tax Avoidance. Dissertation |
| Farrar, J., & Mehmi, H. Environmental Risk and Corporate Tax Avoidance. |
| Farrar, J., & Mehmi, H. Pay Dispersion and Corporate Tax Avoidance |
| Farrar, J., & Mehmi, H. The Ethics of Tax Adjudication: Initial evidence on the Name-Letter Effect in Judicial Decision Making |
| Farrar, J., Ma, J., Mattalo, B., & Mehmi, H. Does a Criminal Record Bias Judges? Evidence from Tax Law. |
| Conference Presentations |
| Environmental Risk and Corporate Tax Avoidance, Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Conference. Toronto Metropolitan University. Toronto, ON, June 2025. |
| The Ethics of Tax Adjudication: Initial Evidence on the Name-Letter Effect in Judicial Decision-Making, 2024 Ethics Symposium - Centre for Accounting Ethics. University of Waterloo. Toronto, ON, September 2024. |
| The Association Between Fairness and Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from Tax Law, Canadian Law & Economics Association Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, October 2023. |