Relationship matters – Leading the Australian Tax Office

Andrew Mills CTA-Life

Andrew Mills, CTA-Life, is Chair of the Financial Reporting Council Australia, Acting Chair of the Board of Tax, Principal Fellow at Melbourne University Law School and a member of the ANU’s Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Advisory Board and the Executive Committee of IFA Australia Branch among other roles. Previously, Andrew was the Second Commissioner, Law Design & Practice, at the Australian Taxation Office from 2013–2019. Andrew has over 40 years’ experience in taxation, including periods in the ATO, commerce and the tax profession. Andrew was a Director (Partner) at Greenwoods & Freehills for more than 20 years and managing director of the firm from 2006 to 2011. Andrew was President of The Tax Institute in 2006–2007 and is a former Governor of the Taxation Research Foundation. Andrew holds qualifications in Business and Law and is a Chartered Taxation Adviser (Life), a Fellow of CPA Australia, a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. - Current at 06 January 2026

Prof Michael Dirkis CTA

Michael is Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD on Australian international taxation and is a noted researcher, having authored Is it Australia's? Residency and Source Analysed (2005, Australian Tax Research Foundation), as well as authoring and co-authoring over 590 publications and papers. From May 1999 until October 2009 he was, as Senior Tax Counsel for the Taxation Institute, in the forefront of the all major tax reform and taxation administration reforms. He continues his involvement as a member of the Treasury's Tax Treaties Advisory Panel and the Education Committee of the Tax Practitioners Board. He was awarded the Australasian Tax Teachers Association's Graham Hill medal in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the teaching of taxation law and policy" on 21 January 2010. - Current at 29 October 2012