Chris Paull

Executive summary

Chris is a Partner in BDO’s tax team in Perth. He is dedicated to building strong relationships with his clients, gaining a deep understanding of their business and needs to deliver practical and value-added solutions.

With over 18 years of experience, Chris excels at distilling complex tax and commercial issues into practical outcomes, advising clients on a wide range of tax areas including transactions, internal restructures and financing matters, as well as tax compliance, tax advice, ATO reviews and tax risk management.

Chris specialises in the private, property, infrastructure and government sectors, and has a passion for projects that are significant to Western Australia such as strategic property and infrastructure construction projects. He has a breadth of experience working with clients across a range of other sectors, including mining services, financial services and the not-for-profit sector.

Expertise

• Buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence
• Structuring assistance
• General tax consulting matters
• Tax compliance and tax risk management
• ATO engagement assistance for justified trust reviews, commercial deal reviews and private rulings.

Experience

• Providing tax advice to large property developers and investors, related to real estate projects across the commercial, industrial, retail and residential sectors
• Undertaking buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence and structuring assistance across a range of private sector transactions
• Providing tax compliance assistance for corporate entities, tax consolidated groups, trusts, property funds, partnerships and owners
• Delivering ATO engagement assistance for justified trust reviews, commercial deal reviews, private rulings and ad hoc enquiries
• Acting as an adviser to the government and private sectors on private public partnerships, government privatisation projects and other commercial arrangements between the government and private sectors.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Member, CA ANZ
• Member, Property Council of Australia.