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Brian Richards, CTA, has been a tax advisor for over 40 years, with extensive experience in providing commercially focused and practical tax advice to accounting and legal firms in relation to their clients’ intricate tax matters. Throughout his impressive career, Brian has held multiple positions, including as a senior tax counsel (partner) for a large accountancy firm before establishing his own practice, Richards Advisory.
Brian’s specialist areas of expertise include advice to SMEs in relation to structures, transactional matters, mergers and demergers, trust issues, negotiations with the ATO, and the preparation of private rulings and notices of objections. In addition, Brian provides taxation training and mentoring programs for accounting practices, is a regular speaker at taxation conferences and has previously assisted The Tax Institute Higher Education with the CTA3 Advisory subject.