Bachelor of Economics ANU 1976
Bachelor of Laws ANU 1978
Career highlights
- Member of the Foreign Investment Review Board 2013 - present
- Commissioner, ATO 2005-2012
- Development of new tax system models and breakthrough strategies built around self-assessment and risk management. The Joint Committee of Public Accounts (Report 326) described the improvements to self-assessment as making the "tax system fairer and more certain for taxpayers"
- Development of new business approaches such as the world's first Advanced Pricing Agreement (transfer pricing) and the audit of Australia's top 100 companies
- Raising the standard of tax technical decisions making within the ATO, and leveraging decisions through precedent support systems, available both internally and to the public
- Championing excellence in Corporate Governance Processes
Career philosophy
"Make a difference"