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Forewarned is forearmed - How to prepare for an ATO review

Date: Tuesday, 31 October

Time: 7:30am arrival for a 8:00am start - 9:00am

Location: Grant Thornton Melbourne | Level 22, Tower 5, 727 Collins St Melbourne

The ATO has publicly disclosed that it is investing significant time and resources in engaging with taxpayers through one of its many assurance programs.

Join our panel discussion with ATO Assistant Commissioner, Michelle Sams and ATO Risk and Intelligence Director, Sean Williams. Michelle and Sean will present alongside Grant Thornton Tax Partners, Daniel Kave, Jason Casas, Murat Cihanger and Rhys Penning, on the ATO's expectation of taxpayers during a review and issues discovered throughout the process.

The assurance programs are key products which the ATO use to ensure the business community are meeting their income tax, GST and transfer pricing obligations.

In our experience, most current interactions with the ATO fall under one of the assurance programs. The information in this session will help to understand the ATO’s current and future focus areas and where businesses might need to put resources to meet the ATO’s expectations.

Our discussion will cover:

Key findings from the ATO's income tax assurance programs to date
ATO’s current views and focus areas including transfer pricing, GST, and tax governance
Details of the future of the review programs, including the roll out of the medium and emerging markets program

Michelle Sams

Assistant Commissioner, Top 100 Program, Adviser Strategy and Staff Experience

Australian Taxation Office

Michelle is is Assistant Commissioner Top 100 Program, Adviser Strategy and Staff Experience in the Public Groups and International business line at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Michelle has 18 years corporate tax experience. Prior to joining the ATO in 2017 Michelle was a Director in KPMG’s Deal Advisory Tax Team.

Sean Williams

Risk and Intelligence Director

Australian Taxation Office

Sean is the Director leading Public Groups’ Medium Public and Multinational Business Engagement Program. Prior to this role, Sean worked in the Public Groups' assurance programs and delivered the treatment strategies for a range of the stimulus measures. Before joining the ATO in 2014, Sean commenced his career in a large advisory firm working for large multinationals in the fast-moving consumable goods industry.

Jason Casas

Partner - Specialist Tax, Transfer Pricing

Grant Thornton

Jason has over 14 years’ experience as an Economist specialising in transfer pricing issues. Jason has successfully advised numerous multinational companies on transfer pricing risk management and using transfer pricing to align operational and tax strategies.

Daniel Kave

Partner & Head of Tax - Melbourne

Grant Thornton

Daniel has extensive experience providing tax advice to public companies and large private groups. He specialises in the provision of complex tax advice in areas such as tax consolidations, structuring for mergers & acquisitions, due diligence, corporate structuring and tax planning, capital gains tax, international tax structuring and tax loss utilisation.

Murat Cihanger

Partner - Tax

Grant Thornton

Murat advises on complex tax issues including mergers and acquisitions, income tax, capital gains tax, tax consolidation, tax effect accounting, international tax structuring and management of large tax compliance projects.

Rhys Penning

Partner - Tax

Grant Thornton

Rhys’ wealth of GST technical and legal knowledge coupled with his compliance and governance skills mean he is now a recognised GST thought leader in Australia. Rhys combines his deep commercial acumen and professional judgement to deliver strategic, but practical and implementable solutions for clients.

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Priscilla Blakeney
Executive Assistant - Specialist Tax

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