The premier NSW tax event of 2008!
Brochure now available!
Following overwhelming success in 2007, the Annual Tax Forum is returning to Sydney. Join us at The Westin on 27 & 28 May 2008 for this year’s must attend tax conference in Sydney. The conference will bring together Australia’s most influential tax professionals and offer you a diverse technical program and excellent networking opportunities.
The flexible program, featuring highly respected accounting, legal and academic presenters, includes three streams and over 40 technical sessions. These sessions are suitable for a range of practitioners from those who advise at the SME level to corporate advisors. Delegates can attend all sessions in one stream or select an assortment of sessions from different streams. Popular flexible ticketing options are again available this year.
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Presenters
We are pleased to announce the following industry experts will be presenting at the Annual Tax Forum:
| Rob Basker - Ernst & Young Allan Blaikie FTIA - Clayton Utz Chris Branson QC FTIA David Burns - Ernst & Young Josh Cardwell FTIA - Greenwoods & Freehills Jenny Clarke FTIA - KPMG Bruce Collins FTIA - Australian Taxation Office Lyndall Crompton FTIA - Australian Taxation Office Kalmen Datt FTIA - University of NSW Paul Dowd FTIA - RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust Peter Fogale FTIA - KPMG Michael Frazer FTIA - PricewaterhouseCoopers Jo-Anne Hayes - Grant Thornton Matt Hayes FTIA - KPMG Jo-anne Hotston FTIA - TaxBanter Pty Ltd Simon Jenner ATIA - Ernst & Young John King FTIA - Mallesons Stephen Jaques Gareth Kirkby - PricewaterhouseCoopers Spyros Kotsopoulos FTIA - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Gil Levy FTIA - MGI Boyd Amrit Macintyre FTIA - Baker & McKenzie Andrew Noolan FTIA - William Buck |
Mark Payne FTIA - Goldman Sachs JB Were Yvette Pietsch FTIA - Pitcher Partners David Raphael FTIA Weston Ryan ATIA - Einfeld Symonds Vince Ken Schurgott FTIA - Cosoff Cudmore Knox Terry Sibraa - Australian Taxation Office Andre Spnovic ATIA - PKF Chartered Accountants Paul Stacey - Corrs Chambers Westgarth Karen Stein - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Malcolm Stephens - Allens Arthur Robinson Tony Stolarek FTIA - Ernst & Young Les Szekely FTIA - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Greg Travers FTIA - William Buck Andrew van Dinter ATIA - Ernst & Young Richard Warburton AO Paul Welch FTIA - Baker & McKenzie Neil Wickenden FTIA - HLB Mann Judd Chris Wilkinson ATIA - Brown Wright Stein Mark Wilkinson FTIA - PKF Chartered Accountants Ben Wilson FTIA - Cosoff Cudmore Knox Jenny Wong ATIA - KPMG Alison Young - KPMG |
Technical Programs
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Stream 1 – SME Issues
This stream focuses on topics that affect practitioners with SME clients and will include practical sessions and updates on taxation of trusts, superannuation, franchising, GST, Division 7A, small business CGT concessions and dealing with the ATO.
Stream 2 – Corporate Issues
This stream will focus on issues relevant to practitioners who are advisors to large business clients (either as part of the internal tax advisory or com pliance group or as external advisors) and will include capital management, the impact of TOFA, tax risk management (including in relation to expectations of boards of
directors) and in respect of promoter penalties regime and the issues currently being resolved under the consolidation regime.
Stream 3 – Hot Topics
This stream covers areas which are of significant interest to a wider range of practitioners in the ever changing tax environment. Topics include anti-money laundering and how it affects your practice or your company, how to go about lodging a ruling request with the ATO, dealing with Tax Audits, and how climate change arrangements are likely to impact on business generally and specifically.
Ticketing Options
There are three ticketing options available to delegates:
Full Forum Registration: For individual delegates - entitles you to attend all sessions, as well as morning and afternoon teas and the networking luncheons and drinks. Additionally you will also receive a full copy of the conference papers.
Members Early Bird price: $1220 (incl GST)
Non-Members Early Bird price: $1420 (incl GST)
Single Day Registration: For individual delegates - entitles you to attend one day of sessions, with morning and afternoon teas and the networking luncheon for that day as well as copies of the conference papers for the day you attended.
Members Early Bird price: $635 (incl GST)
Non-Members Early Bird price: $735 (incl GST)
Employer Ticket Registration: A group ticket - entitles two or more employees from your firm to attend any sessions (up to a total of 14 sessions). Your company will receive one full copy of the conference papers to be shared between delegates.
Early Bird price: $1520 (incl GST)
Early bird prices available until 2 May 2008!
Click here to register online and you will go into the draw to win a case of Vasse Felix wine!
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