Tax reform: An Overview of the review of business tax

Dr Alice McCleary CTA-Life

Alice is a Director of several listed and unlisted companies. Alice is a Chartered Accountant with wide experience in leadership, corporate governance, professional practice and policy development. Alice has been a corporate tax partner in Coopers & Lybrand, was intimately involved with the Ralph Review of Business Taxation in the late 1990s, and in 2001 was President of The Tax Institute – the first woman to hold that position in the Institute’s history. She has also represented Australia on the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, which sets the ethical standards for the world’s 2.5 million accountants. Alice is the inaugural Chair of both The Tax Institute’s Disciplinary Committee and Professional Standards Committee, and developed the procedures and by-laws for the Institute becoming a recognised tax agent association under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. - Current at 29 November 2017