Chair
Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst; Recommended Property & Real Estate Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022
Professional Skills
How to Manage GST, Recent Tax Changes and Other Current Tax Issues Impacting Property Practitioners
- GST: the new GST withholding regime and increased conveyancing complexity
- Understanding the notification and reporting requirements
- What you need to know about dealing with the ATO and the practical issues involved
- Penalties for failing to get it right
- State Taxes: Victorian stamp duty and land tax updates
- Recent impact of case law on property-holding partnerships
- Exemption opportunities on foreign duty and land tax regimes
- The new vacant residential land tax
Presented by Michelle Bennett, Partner, BDO
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Michelle Bennett, Partner, BDO
A Melbourne-based Tax Partner with a focus on indirect taxes, Michelle has extensive expertise in the application of GST, Stamp Duty and Land Tax. Michelle’s goal is to ensure that indirect taxes are managed smoothly and efficiently, freeing her clients to focus on their business. With twenty-five years’ experience in legal and accounting firms, Michelle works across a broad range of commercial and property transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures and inbound investments. Michelle has a focus on property and infrastructure investments, mining, manufacturing, private equity acquisitions and integrations, and effectively managing interactions with the revenue authorities across the business lifecycle. Prior to BDO, Michelle was a Partner at a global accounting firm, providing solutions and managing GST and state tax risks. Long-term secondments to two of Australia’s largest banks has provided Michelle with a genuine understanding of the practical issues of tax compliance in a complex commercial environment.
Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst
Richard Brooks is a consultant in Ashurst's real estate practice. Richard has a broad real estate practice, including acting for REITs and other institutional property owners, developers and corporate and government real estate occupiers, and acting on real estate aspects of M&A, infrastructure and energy and resources projects. Richard is experienced in acting on commercial property leasing (for landlords and tenants), sale and lease backs, real estate investment and real estate development. Richard is listed in Best Lawyers Australia 2024 in Real Property Law, Leasing Law and Government Practice.
