Thomson Reuters information services are authored by field specialists from leading accounting and legal firms, universities, banks and regulatory organisations, as well as respected in-house writers who draw on a wealth of experience spanning publishing, the ATO, commerce and the accounting profession. Together our experts provide the practical, relevant and up-to-date information you need to help you excel in today's complex world of tax and accounting.
Below are just some of the organizations and individuals who write our tax and accounting services.
Accounting
Moore Stephens is one of Australia's leading mid-tier accounting and business advisory
networks with over 700 professionals across a broad range of services and industries. They
have provided cost-effective consulting, technology, financial planning, tax and assurance
solutions to mid-sized organisations since 1935.
Compliance
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission enforces and regulates company and financial services laws to protect consumers, investors and creditors. An independent Australian government body, ASIC has regulated financial markets, securities, futures and corporations since January 1991. As ASIC’s official publishers, Thomson Reuters is uniquely placed to deliver extensive, up-to-the-minute compliance information straight from the regulator to you.
Professor Robert Baxt AO
Currently a Partner at Freehills, Professor Baxt has built a reputation as one of the country's leading competition lawyers. He has been prominent as a lawyer and legal academic in trade practices, corporate law and taxation law.
Professor Baxt was formerly the Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission from 1988 to 1991 and prior to that, the Dean of the Monash University Law Faculty. He has been an adviser to governments and clients on the impact not only of the Competition Policy Reform Act, the Trade Practices Act and related legislation, but also on the Corporations Act and most recently on initiatives being taken by the Federal Government with respect to the vesting of additional powers on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the form of infringement notices. For many years he has advised a number of organisations including Government organisations on corporate governance issues arising not only from the privatisation of various segments of industry but flowing from other more general company law questions.
He is the immediate past Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and Chairman of the Law Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was the founder of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association and the founding editor and now the General Editor of both the Company and Securities Law Journal and the Australian Business Law Review. He has also recently been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours Awards by being awarded an Order of Australia for services to the law.
Russell V Miller AM
Russell Miller is a partner with the Australian law firm, Minter Ellison and is head of the firm’s Competition Group. He is also Chair of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Russell is the author of the leading Australian text on competition and consumer law, “Miller’s Annotated Trade Practices Act – Australian Competition and Consumer Law”.
In 2005 Russell was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to the legal profession.
Tom Middleton
Tom Middleton is a Senior Lecturer in corporate law at the School of Law at James Cook University. He is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and has 20 years' teaching experience in the areas of company law, commercial law and taxation law. He currently teaches a course on the law of corporate investigation, as well as lecturing in the company directors' course run by the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has published extensively in the area of corporations and tax law.
Jason Harris BA LLB (UWS), LLM (ANU)
Jason Harris teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate Law, Securities Law and Corporate Insolvency Law in the UTS Faculty of Law. Jason’s research is focused on the regulation of corporate groups, corporate governance and directors duties, securities class actions and voluntary administration. Jason has published several books, articles and book chapters on corporate, securities and insolvency law for both academic and practitioner audiences. Several of Jason’s publications (including Corporations Legislation) have been cited in the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. A member of the national executive of the Australian Corporate Law Teachers’ Association, Jason is also on the Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia Business Law Section, and is an academic member of the Insolvency Practitioners’ Association of Australia and Insol International.
Superannuation & Financial Services
Some of our major contributing writers include:
- George Flack - Proprietor of RetireInvest Bendigo and Money Management magazine’s “Financial Planner of the Year “in 2004 & 1996
- Paul Banister - Director, Grant Thornton (Qld) Pty Ltd
- John Day - Director, Remuneration Strategies Group
- Chris Malkin - Principal, WHK Greenwoods
Tax
Major contributing writers include:
- Robert Deutsch – Professor of the ATAX program at the University of NSW and a Barrister at Law.
- Les Szekely – Director Horwarth (NSW) Pty Limited and Partner, Horwath Sydney
- Barbara Smith – CEO, Onlinesuper.com.au
- Peter Hanley – Taxation & Property Consultant to Grant Thornton, Chartered Accountants Brisbane; and General Counsel, John Harris Property Group, Brisbane
- Justin Dabner – Associate Professor, School of Law, James Cook University
- Richard Krever – Director, Taxation Law & Policy Research Institute, Monash University
- Anthony Smyth – Partner, Carrick Kellow Smyth Commercial Lawyers, Melbourne
Tax - in-house writers
Thomson Reuters in-house tax writers include some of the industry's most respected names:
Peter Hill BBus MTax (UNSW) FTIA
Managing Writer
Peter leads our team of tax writers and is Technical Editor of The
Australian GST Handbook. Peter has presented hundreds of papers
on income tax and GST. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in 1997, Peter was
a Senior Manager with then Coopers & Lybrand and spent 12 years in the
‘Big 4’ environment in Sydney, Adelaide, and Auckland. Peter is a member
of the TIA’s National Membership Committee.
Terry Hayes BBus CPA FTIA
Senior Tax Writer
Terry heads Thomson Reuters’s tax newsroom with responsibility for all our tax
news services, including Latest Tax News and Weekly Tax
Bulletin. He is also the Technical Editor of The Australian
Financial Planning Handbook. Terry’s experience stems from senior
levels in the Tax Office and the ‘Big 4’ environment. He is also a Registered
Tax Agent and has been with Thomson Reuters for 10 years.
Ian Murray-Jones BA DipEd BEc FTIA
Senior Tax Writer
Ian is primarily involved in our tax and commentary service. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in 2001, he spent many years at CCH where he was responsible for several of CCH’s major products, including the Master Tax Guide. Ian’s career also includes positions with a specialist forensic accounting firm and with the former Coopers & Lybrand as a Tax Manager. Ian has also been a Registered Tax Agent for 15 years.
Jerry Reilly BA LLB
Senior Tax Writer
Jerry is responsible for our main commentary services and our international
tax services. Jerry joined Thomson Reuters in 2001 from PKF, where he was
a Senior Tax Manager. Prior to PKF, Jerry was one of CCH's most senior
and respected tax writers, having spent 13 years maintaining responsibility
for some of their major tax products.
Trevor Snape MA (Cantab)
Senior Tax Writer
Trevor’s main responsibility is The Australian Tax Handbook.
He also contributes original and updating commentary for our main commentary
service. After many years with CCH rising to Senior Tax Analyst, Trevor
left to join Thomson Reuters in 1999. He is also a qualified solicitor.
Kirk Wilson BA LLB
Senior Tax Writer
After a career in senior technical roles in the ATO Head Office, Kirk
joined Thomson Reuters 10 years ago and apart from being a prolific tax
writer, is an acknowledged CGT expert. Kirk writes for a range of Thomson Reuters
ATP tax services, including our tax commentaries and tax news services.
Stuart Jones BEc LLB
Tax Writer
Stuart has extensive publishing experience, having been with Thomson Reuters
Reuters ATP since 1994. He is currently responsible for our superannuation services
including Superannuation News Alert, and contributes superannuation
content to other Thomson Reuters services.
Lisa Mak BA Grad Cert (EditPubl)
Tax Writer
Lisa joined Thomson Reuters in 2006 after more than five years of tax publishing and tax
risk management experience in the 'Big 4' environment. Lisa's primary responsibility
is to contribute to tax news services such as Latest Tax News and Weekly Tax Bulletin.