Gary Poon

Executive summary

Gary is a partner in BDO’s Tax team in Melbourne. He has 17 years' experience in the profession.

Gary has diverse experience across multiple sectors, including manufacturing and wholesale, retail super funds, financial services providers, private trusts, and listed and unlisted corporate groups.

He has experience advising government and corporate clients on various tax matters. Gary is particularly passionate about advising corporate clients on inbound and outbound structuring of investments and restructures for tax-effective divestment of both local and foreign shareholder-held assets.

His strengths lie in his attention to detail and his methodical approach to taxation issues. He is highly regarded by his peers for his strong technical skills.

Expertise

• Capital and dividend repatriation
• Corporate reorganisation
• Due diligence review for acquisitions
• Cross-border structuring and divestment
• Tax consolidation
• Trusts
• Limited partnerships
• International taxation

Experience

• Addressing the tax issues that arise through M&A and capital raising activity, such as advising on the tax outcomes of different funding instruments
• Managing international tax issues for a business with headquarters in Australia, and a subsidiary of a business with headquarters overseas
• Determining the tax treatment of costs incurred to develop intellectual property
• Addressing financial services-specific tax issues, such as the taxation of financial arrangements.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Registered Tax Agent
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Information Systems
• Master of International Tax
• Chartered Accountant and Member, CA ANZ
• Chartered Tax Adviser