June edition Tax Specialist

Christopher Bowman CTA

Chris is a Director at William Buck in Sydney and is primarily responsible for international tax advice. Chris joined the Taxation Consulting Group of William Buck in 2005 after over 15 years experience with PwC in Australasia and Europe and recently, 2 years in the ATO Transfer Pricing Practice. He was previously an Executive Level member of the Australian Taxation Office Transfer Pricing Practice, located in Large Business and International, Sydney, and a designated Competent Authority in the Asian team. - Current at 08 February 2007

Dung Lam CTA

Dung Lam, CTA, is a Special Counsel at Coleman Greig Lawyers with more than 20 years’ experience in advising on a wide variety of taxes including income tax, capital gains tax, GST and state taxes such as duty, payroll tax and land tax. Dung also has extensive experience advising on taxation trusts, superannuation issues in the self-managed superannuation funds arena and tax issues related to estate planning. Dung is a Chartered Tax Adviser, full member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners, an accredited Specialist in Business and Personal Tax with the NSW Law Society, a member of the Business Law Section Taxation Committee of the Law Council of Australia and a member of the NSW Law Society Liaison Committee with the Revenue NSW. Dung advises a broad range of clients ranging from corporates, small to medium enterprises, high net worth individuals, professional firms, accountants, financial planners and their clients. - Current at 31 July 2020

Frederick Mahar

Frederick is the Principal at FM Mahar & Associates.
Current at 1 April 2015

Kristen Deards SC

Kristen has an extensive taxation practice and appears for taxpayers and the Commissioner of Taxation in income tax and GST cases in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Court and the High Court of Australia. She has appeared in a large range of tax cases, led and unled, from complex Part IVA and transfer pricing cases, to disputes concerning CGT, the consolidation regime, international tax, superannuation, insurance, trusts and charities. An income tax practitioner for fifteen years, Ms Deards has an extensive opinion practice advising corporate taxpayers and high wealth individuals, and she regularly advises taxpayers on the conduct of audits undertaken by the Commissioner of Taxation. - Current at 31 May 2019

Michael Flynn QC CTA-Life

Michael is a Barrister at Owen Dixon Chambers West, specialising in taxation, and was National President of The Tax Institute in 2014. He is the author, with James Kessler, QC, of Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts in Australia (2nd edition, 2017). Michael has appeared in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Court and the High Court in taxation cases. Michael has been a member of various committees of The Tax Institute for over 20 years. - Current at 02 December 2019