Tax transparency initiatives – The current state of play paper

Christopher Vanderkley CTA

Chris Vanderkley, CTA, leads PwC’s Tax Governance & Transparency Practice. He has assisted more that 150 of the firm’s clients in implementing their tax governance framework and supported them with their ATO Top 1000 Streamlined/Combined Assurance Reviews and their Top 100 Pre Compliance Reviews. Chris has 35 years’ experience as a tax professional. Chris was the former Director of Tax at GE and acted as public officer of all of GE’s GE entities. Chris was also the country CFO at GE and chaired most of GE’s Boards. - Current at 15 July 2021

Helen Kelly

Helen is an Assistant Commissioner at the Australian Taxation Office. She has over 25 years’ experience in taxation law and currently works in the Tax Counsel Network with a focus on resolving high risk and complex tax technical issues in the clearest and most effective way whilst making tax fair, simple and understood. She is a member of Tax Counsel Network’s Internationals Focus Group with a lead role on tax transparency and is also a member Tax Counsel Network’s Energy & Resources Focus Group. Previously Helen was the Senior Assistant Commissioner responsible for all of the Centres of Expertise, and she has worked in the Large Business & International, Indirect Taxes and Litigation areas of the ATO. Helen has recently led the Tax Counsel Network team responsible for providing advice on recently enacted transparency initiatives including Country by Country Reporting and General Purpose Financial Statements. - Current at 12 March 2018