About

Chris is a Melbourne-based Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with over 30 years’ professional experience offering advanced technical yet practical advice about Australian tax to accountants, lawyers and direct clients.

Recent achievements

  • Awarded life membership of The Tax Institute in September 2023 for significant contributions to the Institute and efforts towards making the Australian tax system work better for all participants in it

  • Finalist in The Tax Institute’s 2022 Chartered Tax Adviser of the Year award

  • Chair of The Tax Institute’s national SME Technical Committee 2021-2022

  • The Tax Institute’s representative on the ATO’s Private Groups Stewardship Group 2021-2022

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s Tax Forum in May 2022

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s webinar in March 2022 about the changes announced in February 2022 to the Commissioner’s approach to s100A and Div 7A

  • Participant in confidential consultations with the ATO through 2021 in relation to the Commissioner’s revised approach to s100A and Div 7A

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s Private Business Tax Retreat in February 2022

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s Yarra Valley Tax Retreat in July 2021

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s Business Structures Online Tax Symposium in July 2020

  • Finalist in The Tax Institute’s 2020 SME Tax Adviser of the Year award

  • Member of the Board of Taxation’s Reference Group for its 2018-2019 review of small business concessions

  • One of a select few practitioners invited to confidential consultations with Treasury and the Board of Taxation about the changes to Div 7A expected to apply from 1 July 2020

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s National Convention in March 2019

  • Presenter at The Tax Institute’s Victorian Division’s “SME Day” in March 2019

  • Presenter at Legalwise’s 2nd Annual Small Business Structuring and Restructuring Conference in October 2019