Professional Ethics Case Studies for Tax Advisers and Lawyers
Overview
Be challenged with this interactive session as you navigate complex scenarios, sharpen your judgment, and apply ethical principles with confidence. Perfect for practitioners at every level who want practical insights they can use immediately.
This session will use a series of case studies outlining common ethically challenging situations that are encountered in practice and explore the sorts of strategies that may be deployed to better deal with such situations in practice, within the professional body, regulatory and legislative requirements by which tax advisers are variously governed.
Using a progressive build-up of facts over time, these case studies will include:
- Common conflicts of interest that may arise between two/more clients – when relationships dissolve with a common adviser
- Common conflicts of interest that may arise between clients and advisers – when interests diverge
- Confidential information issues (both disclosures and withholding disclosure) – when can you not disclose, when must you and when/how can you disclose?
- Personal relationship vs professional obligations – can you manage the difference?
- Gifts and independence – how much is too much?
- Dealing with pressure [from clients] to act in certain ways to ‘help’ the client in their situation – the ‘slippery-slope’
NOTE: This is the second part in a two-part series, with the first session considering the theory of professional ethics and the regulatory requirements for tax advisers – Professional Ethics Theory & Regulatory Framework for Tax Advisers and Lawyers
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will gain an improved understanding of:
- How to recognise and deal with emerging ethical challenges
- Some structural options for how to deal with such ethical challenges
- When/How to report such situations as part of dealing with them
Suited to:
Accountants, tax practitioners, BAS agents, lawyers and other practitioners serving private groups and wealthy individuals
This On Demand recording Includes:
- Recording of the Live Webinar, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – Professional Ethics Case Studies for Tax Advisers and LawyersVideo
- Feedback Survey QuestionsSurvey
- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Bruce CollinsTax Controversy Partners
is the founder and principal solicitor at Tax Controversy Partners Pty Limited, currently helping clients to resolve all types of tax issues with the ATO and SROs. Before moving into private practice in 2017, Bruce worked for over 35 years in the Tax Office, a third of this time as a Senior Executive in what is now Compliance & Engagement Group, covering most ATO functions. Bruce was a key leader of the Professional Excellence Branch in the ATO, as well as having overseen the development of the Professional Accreditation Program for the ATO’s technical leaders, and having coached many of the ATO’s senior technical and compliance leaders in his roles as a Senior Executive. All of these roles involved managing ethical requirements and helping other leaders and staff to develop their abilities to do so.
Bruce has an Accounting Certificate (1989), a First-Class Honours Degree in Law (1995), a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (1996), a Masters of Taxation (2003) and a Masters of International Taxation (2006). Bruce is a Chartered Tax Advisor with the Tax Institute, a member of the Law Society of NSW, is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is both a member of the Law Council of Australia, its Tax Committee and is current Chair of their SME Committee.