The 2022 Indirect Tax Pathfinder 

Abs is an internationally experienced Corporate Tax Partner in Deloitte’s Business Tax Advisory practice in Australia and is the Alliances Leader and Consumer Sector Leader for Deloitte Australia’s Tax & Legal business nationally.  Abs is also a Tax Governance Partner assisting major corporates to enhance their tax governance frameworks and manage ATO governance reviews.

He has 20 years’ experience providing advice on Australian and international taxation matters. Prior to joining Deloitte, Abs had a proven track record of delivering great results within leading organisations such as Lion, Sony, Cadbury and Accenture.  Most recently, Abs was the Group Tax Director at Lion, with responsibility for all taxes domestically and internationally of the group.  Abs also provided support to Kirin (Lion's 100% parent in Japan).

Abs also sits on a number of Not-For-Profit Boards and is the Chair of the Australian Retailer’s Association Tax Committee.

Having worked in senior roles in multinational companies in Australia and Europe, Abs is well placed to understand client needs and provide commercially sound tax advice.

Tony is a Partner in the Indirect Tax team with over 23 years’ experience specialising in Goods and Services Tax (GST).​

A well-known technical expert on GST, Tony presents at numerous forums for the Taxation Institute of Australia, sits on the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand GST Committee as well as a number of ATO working groups on GST.​

Tony advises on a range of GST matters and leads on governance and assurance reviews (including “CAR”), technical advice, dealings with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) such as disputes and private binding rulings, indirect tax technology implementations, indirect tax data analytic projects, due diligence, and tax structuring matters.​

Prior to joining Deloitte, Tony was a Partner for 10 years at Grant Thornton and was the National Head of Indirect Tax and the Global Head of Indirect Tax. Those roles saw Tony develop global experience on international GST/VAT implementation projects across multiple territories as well as global SAP and Oracle tax optimisation projects. Tony was also a Director at PwC for a period of 6 years.​ 

Priyanka is an experienced Director in Deloitte's Tax & Legal practice. Priyanka specialises in providing commercially focused indirect tax advice with over 10 years’ inhouse, consulting and legal experience advising across a range of indirect taxes including GST, wine equalisation tax (WET), excise and customs duties both in Australia and New Zealand. 

Priyanka has also spent 2 years leading, from an indirect tax perspective, the enterprise-wide implementation of the SAP S/4 HANA ERP solution for a FMCG. Specifically, this required the development and implementation of a bespoke indirect tax technology solution, within SAP S/4 HANA, to manage end to end excise, customs and WET for an alcohol industry FMCG both in Australia and New Zealand. 

Overall, Priyanka assists clients to navigate indirect tax risks and opportunities, the continuous improvement of systems and processes, implementation of technology solutions and supports their interactions with tax authorities both in Australian and New Zealand..

David is a Director in Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting practice and has over 20 years’ experience in tax compliance, advisory and tax technology as well as process improvement and offshoring across Australia, Europe and India. He specialises in helping clients transform their tax and finance functions by bringing together the best of people, process, systems and technology. ​

David joined Deloitte in September 2018, and has been deeply involved with the development and implementation of technology solutions in the Australian tax market. His background in Big 4 has seen him lead transformation programs to automate and streamline processes across a wide range of tax and finance processes. David is passionate about all things technology, holds an EMBA from Sydney Business School and is a Chartered Accountant. ​

Priyanka is an experienced Director in Deloitte's Tax & Legal practice. Priyanka specialises in providing commercially focused indirect tax advice with over 10 years’ inhouse, consulting and legal experience advising across a range of indirect taxes including GST, wine equalisation tax (WET), excise and customs duties both in Australia and New Zealand. 

Priyanka has also spent 2 years leading, from an indirect tax perspective, the enterprise-wide implementation of the SAP S/4 HANA ERP solution for a FMCG. Specifically, this required the development and implementation of a bespoke indirect tax technology solution, within SAP S/4 HANA, to manage end to end excise, customs and WET for an alcohol industry FMCG both in Australia and New Zealand. 

Overall, Priyanka assists clients to navigate indirect tax risks and opportunities, the continuous improvement of systems and processes, implementation of technology solutions and supports their interactions with tax authorities both in Australian and New Zealand..

Simmone specialises in Indirect Taxes across the global including Goods and Services Tax and Value Added Tax. Her main focus is assisting organisations around Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia automate their GST & VAT processes. During her 8 years at Thomson Reuters Simmone has worked with different industries to streamline their GST/VAT processes from manual documents into an automated end to end process.

Simmone had travel around Asia and Emerging Markets to implement our ONESOURCE Indirect Tax solutions and has been able to guide the most complex systems to a fully automatic solution.

Simmone has been in the tax industry for over 15 years

Ian has worked at Thomson Reuters for over 15 years as a senior tax analyst with expertise in income tax and GST. He has been involved in tax publishing for over 25 years.

Prior to his tax writing career, Ian worked as a manager for a Big 4 accountancy firm and then with a firm which provided specialist tax advice for the music and recording industry.

Ian holds a Bachelor of Economics degree, is a Chartered Accountant and a registered tax agent. Among other things, Ian is the author of the Australian GST Handbook, the GST Commentary Service, the Australian Financial Planning Handbook and the specialist income tax commentary services, as well as being a regular contributor to the news services.