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Accountants, Conduct, Social/Professional 12 March 2021

Liquidator resigns and refunds but questions remain

Departed CPAA director and Brooke Bird partner Robyn Erskine. Brooke Birds’ Adrian Hunter. iNO suspects that there is plenty left unsaid in the recent announcement by CPA Australia (CPAA) that director Robyn Erskine had fallen on her sword and resigned, effective from March 4. In an email to members sent last Friday CPAA said that Erskine, the first female liquidator to be made a Life…

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Accountants, ATO, Judgment, Referrers 12 September 2018

Insolvency referrer denies backdating developer’s docs

Western Sydney accountant and insolvency referrer Gerardo “Gerry” Incollingo has denied allegations made by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (DCoT) that he backdated documents to help controversial property developer Charbel Demian avoid a $35 million tax and penalties bill. In Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Advanced Holdings Pty Ltd & Ors Federal Court Judge Anna Katzmann lays out how on August 21, 2018 she made orders freezing assets controlled by Demian’s Advanced Holdings…