ATPF minutes, February 2012

Meeting details

Venue:	Australian Taxation Office Level 6 Conference Room 6 Gladstone Street Moonee Ponds
Date:	24 February 2012
Start:	09.30am	Finish:	4.10pm
Chair:	Cheryl-Lea Field Deputy Commissioner
Contact and Secretariat:	Renee Bruce	Contact phone:	(08) 7442 2944

Attendees

Cheryl-Lea Field (Chair)	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
David Diment	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
Erin Holland	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
James O'Halloran	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
Neil Olesen	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
Steve Vesperman	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
Richard Collis	Assistant Deputy Commissioner (for Michael Cranston), ATO
Cameron Sorensen	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Scott Bailey	Taxation consultant, Income Tax Professionals
Alan Bliss	Partner - The Practice, Tax Practitioner
Roger Booker	Director - Small Business Accounting, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Frank Brass	Regional Director, H&R Block
Keith Clissold	Senior Vice President, Association of Taxation and Management Accountants
Tony Greco	Senior Tax Advisor, Institute of Public Accountants
Karen Liew	(For Norman Kang), Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Phil McCann	McCann Taxation Services, Tax Practitioner
Toby Meller	T J Meller, Tax Practitioner
John Morgan	(for Teresa Dyson), Law Council of Australia
Mark Morris	Senior Tax Counsel, CPA Australia
Deepti Paton	Tax Counsel, Tax Institute
Warren Seeto	Bright Wealth Chartered Accountants, Tax Practitioner
Roger Timms	National Technical Director, Taxpayers Australia
Rod Wilson	(For Tony Jones), National Tax and Accountants' Association

Apologies

Michael Cranston	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
David Cantamessa	Senior Manager, Pacifica, Tax Practitioner
Gary Christie	Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Tax Practitioner
Teresa Dyson	Partner - Blake & Dawson, Law Council of Australia
Tony Jones	Chief Executive Officer, National Tax and Accountants' Association
Norman Kang	Tax Consultant, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Steven Inglis	GPA Accounting, Tax Practitioner

Guests

Tom Wheeler (agenda item 2)	A/Senior Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Mark Jackson (agenda item 3)	Deputy Commissioner, ATO
Alison Lendon (agenda item 4)	First Assistant Commissioner, ATO
John Dardo (agenda item 4)	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Deb Unsworth (agenda item 4)	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Kathy Madigan (agenda item 4)	A/Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Nicola Black (agenda item 4)	Senior Director, TPALS Systems, ATO
Beth Barry (agenda item 7)	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Andrew Watson (agenda item 8)	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Donna Lawrie	Director, ATO
Stephanie Caredes	Tax Counsel, Tax Institute

Secretariat

Heather Watson	ATO
Shane Heward	ATO