Aaron Walters
Aaron Walters is a Hearing Officer for Trade Marks at IP Australia, appointed in November 2017. Before commencing as a Hearing Officer, Aaron spent 5 years working as a Trade Marks Examiner and Coach for trainee examiners. Aaron’s background in law and career at IP Australia has seen him acquire a detailed understanding of trade mark matters relating to examination and disputes.
Mike Reddy
Mike Reddy of NZTax.com.au, based in Sydney, is a New Zealand registered tax agent and Chartered Accountant. Mike assists individuals and small businesses throughout Australia with their New Zealand income tax, GST and corporate affairs.
Scott McKenzie
Scott McKenzie is a commercial lawyer and director of Velocity Legal. The lease contract is often the biggest financial and legal commitment for a business, so a large part of Scott’s focus is on guiding business owners through commercial lease negotiations.
Chris Hooper
Chris Hooper is the CEO of Accodex, a progressive network of accountants. A popular public speaker at Pecha Kucha, AIESEC, TEDx, GoldenKey and XeroCon, Chris has won the Achievement Award in the Young Business Leaders Program for 2013 and was ranked one of the top 30 Managers under 30 in 2015, going on to win state manager of the year.
Adrian Bailey
Adrian Bailey is a Principal of Cleary Hoare in Sydney and Perth. A Chartered Tax Adviser with a Master of Taxation, Adrian has worked in various committees and working groups of The Tax Institute and Board of Taxation. Adrian particularly enjoys optimising a client’s structure for business, estate and succession planning purposes.
New Basic Conditions When Selling Shares or Units – Small Business CGT Concessions – CGT Rollovers When Restructuring
Tim Hoopmann
Tim Hoopmann is the principal of Spinn Business Solutions in Sydney. With a passion for helping small business use technology as a key enabler to increase productivity and decrease costs, he advises small business on business planning, cloud technology, sales, marketing and operations management. Tim is also a volunteer speaker for beyondblue.
Process Automation – Engagement Letters – Payment Gateways – Mental Health
Scott Treatt
Scott Treatt is a partner at Pitcher Partners in Sydney. A tax specialist advising corporate groups and SME clients since 1997, Scott is a key advisor on major domestic and international restructures and transactions as well as tax issues within financial models and provisions.
Cameron Lynch
Cameron Lynch is the founder of the Etani Business Platform. A Chartered Accountant by trade and experienced in analytics, big data and cloud implementation, Cameron is passionate about helping SMEs to harness the power of live data and Business Intelligence (BI) through a facilitated implementation of Microsoft Power BI.
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor is Chair of the Tax Practitioners Board, appointed in January 2013. Ian was a tax partner with KPMG in Melbourne for 21 years, as well as a senior lecturer at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Ian is a registered tax agent with over 40 years of experience and a Fellow of CPA Australia and CA ANZ.
Register as a Tax Practitioner – Tax Practitioners Board – Code of Professional Conduct – CPE
Ian McLean
Ian McLean established Bush AgriBusiness in 2009, advising family owned cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory. A Chartered Agriculturist with an MBA and based in Toowoomba, Ian is the co-author of the Australian Beef Report.
Opportunity Cost of Saving Tax
Paul Goldin
Paul Goldin is a solicitor and principal of Vectigal Legal in Melbourne with expertise in trust and international tax issues. With a global perspective, Paul assists private enterprise and high net worth clients as well as registered tax agents, accountants and financial advisors with complicated tax issues.
Amy Holdsworth & Ian Walker
Amy Holdsworth and Ian Walker run Clarity Street, a cloud integrator for accountants. Their aim is to make accounting practices more effective and profitable. While Amy comes from the practice management side, Ian is a CPA and both are Xero Certified Advisors.
Core Apps for Accountants – Peripheral Apps for Accountants – Accounting Expo Tours
Andrew Fricot
Andrew Fricot is the founder and director of Payroll Tax Solutions. Previously a key spokesperson and advisor around NSW payroll tax for Revenue NSW, Andrew has over 15 years experience working in the field of payroll tax and other state taxes, grants and rebates.
John Saunders
As part of the The Pittwater Partnership, John Saunders provides financial and specialist advice around residential care options from retirement villages over home care to residential aged care. John is a certified Financial Planner and fellow of FINSIA.
Aged Living – Financing Aged Living – Age Pension – Special Disability Trusts – Retirement Villages
Peter Adams
Peter Adams is the principal of Augmentors in Sydney and a captivating public speaker. Having held senior tax positions with KPMG, PWC, BNP-Paribas and Chase Manhattan, Peter regularly talks at professional association events about current tax issues.
Div 7a Loans – Div 7a Payments – Div 7a Debt Forgiveness – Div 7A Concept – Div 7A Fixes
Bradley Beer
Bradley Beer is a qualified Quantity Surveyor and the CEO of BMT Tax Depreciation. Having joined BMT in 1998, Bradley became a Director in 2002, Managing Director in 2012 and CEO in 2015. Bradley is a highly sought after speaker at national property events and conferences and a regular guest host on Sky News Real Estate ‘Your Property Empire’
Christine Ecob
Christine Ecob is an intellectual property and technology lawyer at Johnson Winter & Slattery (JWS) advising and representing clients in complex intellectual property issues and disputes. Some disputes for multinational corporations have taken Christine all the way to the Federal Court and High Court of Australia.
Jim Hennington
Jim Hennington is the CEO and founder of the Accountants Scaled Advice Platform (A.S.A.P) with a successful track record of building financial software solutions. Jim is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Actuaries having held a long list of senior roles in software development projects for HSBC, Challenger Life, Scottish Widows and Accurium.
Paul Baker
Paul Baker is the founder and managing principal of Meridian Lawyers and a leading health and insurance lawyer. Paul has acted for a wide range of local and overseas insurers and underwriters.
Damien Gooden
Damien Gooden is the CEO of HR Central, giving Australian small and medium businesses HR specialist support combined with a SaaS based solution.
Employment Law Before COVID-19
Tax Talks
Tax Talks is Australia’s tax news podcast for tax professionals. Informative, entertaining and free.
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