Courtney Whitecross

Executive summary

Courtney is a Partner in BDO’s Corporate & International Tax team in Brisbane. She has 18 years’ experience working with a range of significant global entities, ASX-listed entities, multinational corporations, and large, privately-owned Australian groups across a variety of industries, particularly technology and manufacturing.

Courtney’s understanding of international and domestic tax laws enables her to provide clients with comprehensive advice in relation to their current and future business needs.

Expertise

• Inbound and outbound tax structuring
• Income tax consolidation
• Tax governance
• Controlled foreign companies, thin capitalisation, and hybrid mismatch rules
• Tax effect accounting and income tax compliance
• Co-operatives, LGTER and NTER entities

Experience

• International income tax law - Advising an ASX-listed company with international subsidiaries about its foreign tax obligations, including withholding tax and controlled foreign company issues
• International tax management - External tax manager to an ASX-listed software company, managing its Australian and international tax compliance obligations
• Tax structuring - Tax modelling of potential options for selling the assets/shares of a company within a tax consolidated group.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business (Accountancy)
• Chartered Accountant and Member, CA ANZ