Leonie Ferretter

Executive summary

Leonie is a Partner in BDO’s Tax team in Sydney. She specialises in trade, customs, and excise advisory.

Leonie has over 30 years’ experience providing advice on strategic customs duty mitigation for major manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure projects, as well as complex customs valuation matters, free trade agreements, and all aspects of customs, trade, and excise duties.

She is a passionate and collaborative adviser, providing practical, considered client solutions that support compliance and achieve financial benefit.

Leonie takes a wholistic approach to client service, working with BDO’s Tax and Transfer Pricing teams—along with our advisory practices such as supply chain, infrastructure, and corporate finance—to ensure we deliver ‘whole-of-tax’ solutions for successful outcomes.

Expertise

• Customs import duty mitigation
• Tariff concessions, tariff classification rulings, free trade agreement access, valuation planning, and tariff planning
• Australian industry plans, duty strategies, and implementation for major projects and government-funded projects
• Customs and excise support for global supply chain projects
• Free trade agreement access for exporters
• Complex customs valuation matters, including related party pricing, assists, and structuring
• Trade operations support
• Trade facilitation programs
• Excise advisory - Licenses, permissions, refunds, remissions, classification
• Trade technology implementation support
• Fuel tax credit advisory
• Wine equalisation tax advisory

Qualifications and affiliations

• Master of Business Law
• Advanced Diploma of Australian & International Trade Facilitation
• Asialink Leaders Program
• Licensed Tax Agent
• Associate, The Tax Institute
• Member, Freight & Trade Alliance
• Affiliate Member, CA ANZ