Employee versus independent contractors presentation

George Bendall

George is a Director for Grant Thornton in Brisbane with over ten years experience specialising in remuneration and employment taxation. George advises on all aspects of effective employment tax compliance, packaging and strategies, with a particular focus on cross border implications relating to globally mobile employees and the implementation of Employee Share Scheme Plans. With a significant increase in audit activity in recent years, George has extensive experience in managing payroll tax audits by various State Revenue Offices and Superannuation Guarantee and FBT audits and reviews by the ATO. - Current at 18 August 2021

Grace Ng

Grace is a Taxation Complaints and Review Director at the IGT who is responsible for the management of the complaint handling and review functions. Grace has experience with all aspects of complaint investigations and broader reviews. She was the senior manager for the IGT review into the ATO’s employer obligations compliance activities, responsible for the submission and for providing oral evidence at the Senate Economics References Committee’s Inquiry into the impact of unpaid Superannuation Guarantee. Grace is also the chair of the IGT’s Gender Equality Committee. Prior to the IGT, Grace worked in the SuperStream implementation team at the ATO, SuperStream secretariat and Henry tax review team within the Treasury and Financial Services Compliance area of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. - Current at 27 March 2018