Queensland Tax Forum 2018 | The Tax Institute | 24 August 2018 | W Brisbane Hotel, 81 N Quay, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia

The sessions include a wealth of technical and practical information, with leading speakers, key representatives of our regulators and topics tailored to the Queensland tax professional. In order to provide you with technical content tailored to your interests, we again offer two streams in our program: one focuses on the issues relevant to the small-to-medium enterprise market, and the second is devoted to issues relevant to larger corporate taxpayers and advisers. We are confident that the keynote presentations, technical sessions and networking will give you everything that you need to be able to seize the opportunities presented.

2018 Event Speakers:

Abhi Aggarwa
Partner in PwC

Michael Andrew
Chairman and CEO of KPMG

Graeme Cooper
Professor of Taxation Law at University of Sydney, Consultant to Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills, Former Chair of New south Wales State council of The Tax Insititute, Former Member of the National Council

Kurt Burrows
Partner in KPMG

Hayden Bentley
Partner at McCullough Robertson

John Daley
Chief Executive of the Grattan Institute

John Comick
Partner and Leader of EY's Queensland R&D

Joanne Casburn
Assistand Commissioner in the Engagement and Assurance Service for Private Group and High Wealth Individuals area of the ATO

Craig Darley
Chartered Accountant, Director responsible for Vincents Business Advisory and Taxation Divisions

Matthew Burgess
Co-Founded Specialist firm View Legal in 2014

Elliot Cunningham
Tax Counsel at QIC

Belinda Darling
Assistant Commissioner in The Public Groups and International Business Line

Michael Flanderka
Managing Director and CEO of Data Interactive

Stuart Landsberg
Partner in PwC's Brisbane Office

Kate Locke
Head of Tax at Suncorp

Nicole Dykstra
Deputy Commissioner

Tom Gilbert
Leads AusIndustry's Brisbane-based R&D Tax Incentive Education and Integrity assurance activities

Hayley Lock
Partner leading KPMG's People Services Tax Practice in Brisbane

Stephanie Lucas
Accountant Director in Doloitte's Transfer Pricing

Justine Neep
Corporate Performance & Tax Manager at Senex Energy Limited

Nicola Purser
National Lead Partner for Research and Development (R&D) at BDO in Brisbane

Tom Rengers
Case leader in the Private Groups and High Wealth Individuals business line

Kerrie Sadiq
Professor of Taxation in the School of Accountancy at the QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology

Sian Sinclair
Global Head of Real Estate & Construction with Grant Thornton and is a Partner in the Tax group

Andrew Price
Tax Partner with BDO in Brisbane

Mark Reynolds
Tax Partner in Crowe Horwath

Jacques Van Rhyn
International tax and transfer pricing partner focused on the oil and gas sector and is the leader of the Brisbane Tax practice for Deloitte

Andrew Smailes
Director in Public Groups and International Brisbane at the ATO

Darren Timms
Group Financial Controller at Aurizon, a Chartered Accountant

Grant Wardell-Johnson
Lead Tax Partner of the Economics and Tax
Centre at KPMG

Terri Symonds
Non Financial Services Director in KPMG’S Delivery and Data Excellence tax compliance practice

Lani van-Ooy
Financial Services Lead Partner in KPMG’S Delivery and Data Excellence tax compliance practice

Adrian Varrasso
Partner in the Tax group at Minter Ellison

Christopher Thorn
Accomplished financial services executive