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Harjot Mehmi

Harjot Mehmi

Assistant Professor
DepartmentAccounting
EducationBBA, MBA, PhD
Phone416-979-5000 ext. 552450
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harjot-s-mehmi (external link) 

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.

Google Scholar profile  (external link, opens in new window) 

Select research and professional contributions

Refereed Journal Articles
Farrar, J., Farrar, T., & Mehmi, H. (2026). Are Judges Influenced by Dollar Amounts? Evidence from Tax Law, Dalhousie Law Journal, 48(2). ABDC quality list: A
Farrar, J., & Mehmi, H. (2025). The Ethics of Tax Adjudication: Initial Evidence on the Name-Letter Effect in Judicial Decision-Making. Accounting and the Public Interest, 1-26. ABDC quality list: B
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.

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/programs/about-canada-revenue-agency-cra/internal-audit-program-evaluation/internal-audit-program-evaluation-reports-2024/evaluation-management-interrelated-businesses.html
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. 519-529). Routledge: New York, NY.
Research in Progress
Farrar, J., Ma, J., Mattalo, B., & Mehmi, H. Does a Criminal Record Bias Judges? Evidence from Tax Law.
Mehmi, H. Bibliometric, Environmental, and Governance Research on Corporate Tax Avoidance. Dissertation.
Mehmi, H., & Farrar, J. Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Bibliometric Analysis.
Mehmi, H., & Farrar, J. Environmental Risk and Corporate Tax Avoidance.
Mehmi, H., & Farrar, J. Pay Dispersion and Corporate Tax Avoidance.
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.

Course code Course title
AFA 300  Intermediate Financial Accounting I
MB 8137-711 Audit and Assurance
MB 8137-701 Business Taxation
BU 357 Taxation I (Wilfrid Laurier University)