GST and property – Avoiding the pitfalls paper

Sam Mohammad

Sam is a Director in KPMG’s Indirect Tax Practice in Brisbane. Sam has 15 years experience in providing practical GST, fuel tax credit and stamp duty advice across a broad range of sectors, including property and development. Sam has been directly involved in major M&A deals and government asset sales (including the provision of tax and duty structuring and optimisation advice), successfully preparing GST private binding ruling requests on complex matters and assisting clients through indirect tax audits and reviews by revenue authorities. - Current at 18 July 2019

Karl Wood

Karl is a Director of KPMG’s Indirect Tax Practice in Sydney and leads the GST offering in real property and infrastructure. Prior to joining KPMG, Karl was Head of Indirect Tax at Stockland, Australia’s largest diversified property group where he was involved in providing day-to-day transactional GST advice regarding acquisitions, restructurings and financing in relation to various major property and trust transactions across the Stockland Group. Karl is a member of the Large Business Advisory Group (LBAG), and the current Chair of the Property Council of Australia’s National GST Subcommittee (where he also sits on the Retirement Living Tax Committee), and through this membership has been involved in lobbying on a number of GST issues. - Current at 08 August 2014