Rory O'Brien

Manager, Tax Consulting

Canberra, ACT

Contact details
+61 2 6279 5400

About Rory

Rory O’Brien is a Tax Consultant at Nexia Canberra.

Experience

Rory joined Nexia after gaining extensive experience as a tax advisor in both accounting and law firms. Rory has an Arts/Law degree with first class honours in law and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, both from the Australian National University. Rory is admitted as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Courts of both the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales.

Rory brings both tax technical expertise and commercial awareness to the solving of clients’ tax problems, having assisted companies both large and small as well as high net worth family groups over the course of his career. Rory is expert in the tax consolidations regime together with the structuring of business transactions in order to obtain the best possible results for clients and has a keen interest in any tax issues that are particularly difficult or unusual.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Law, Australian National University
  • Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Australian National University

Areas of expertise

Goods and services tax (GST)

Fringe benefits tax (FBT)

Tax advice for structuring, consolidation, and mergers and acquisitions

ATO dispute resolution

Fringe benefits tax (FBT)

Goods and services tax (GST) advice

News by Rory

Massive penalties apply for paying superannuation late