I leverage my ethos of ‘tax acumen’ to help clients make better decisions through an ‘after tax’ lens with elegant actionable solutions
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Rod Henderson - Founding Partner
email - rod.henderson@nuwaru.com
mobile - +61 412 250 784 What Rod brings to clients
As an accomplished tax adviser, Rod helps businesses solve complex tax problems in his personable style with simple elegant actionable solutions. He is guided by his personal ethos of tax acumen, which helps bring tax into focus by looking at business needs through an after-tax lens. Rod brings broad and deep innovative thinking to his clients, providing wise counsel benefiting from his well-travelled global experience and exposure to complex transactions and structures. Taking hands-on ownership as if Rod was dealing with his own business, he leads with understated confidence to help a vast range of businesses realise their full potential. |
History
Having completed a career of over 30 years with KPMG, over 20 years’ experience as a tax partner, Rod has assisted Australian and international clients navigate the complexities of taxation, business, finance and government policy to successfully grow and expand.
Rod has established his own tax practice specialising in transactions, funding, projects, international taxation, wealth, China, energy & natural resources, renewables and tech startups.
Over the last 12 months, Rod has imbedded himself in the Tank Stream Labs innovation hub in Sydney, focusing on simplifying the complex. He has founded his own startup, AcuTax, Australia’s first automated online tax advisory app utilising artificial intelligence.
Rod has been working on the professional staff member of the University of Sydney Business School, bringing his extensive professional experience and ideas around tax and legal acumen to contribute to the development of a new practical capstone course, focused on startups, for students majoring in business law. He is also researching the technological disruption of professional services, including the pathway to providing ethical and reliable tax advice available to all online.
Throughout his career, Rod travelled extensively. As a tax specialist in the Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) industry, Rod held senior leadership positions with KPMG including Global Tax Lead for Mining and ENR Tax Leader for Asia Pacific. Rod has gained vast China experience, networks and knowledge having served as KPMG Australia’s China tax practice leader.
Having completed a career of over 30 years with KPMG, over 20 years’ experience as a tax partner, Rod has assisted Australian and international clients navigate the complexities of taxation, business, finance and government policy to successfully grow and expand.
Rod has established his own tax practice specialising in transactions, funding, projects, international taxation, wealth, China, energy & natural resources, renewables and tech startups.
Over the last 12 months, Rod has imbedded himself in the Tank Stream Labs innovation hub in Sydney, focusing on simplifying the complex. He has founded his own startup, AcuTax, Australia’s first automated online tax advisory app utilising artificial intelligence.
Rod has been working on the professional staff member of the University of Sydney Business School, bringing his extensive professional experience and ideas around tax and legal acumen to contribute to the development of a new practical capstone course, focused on startups, for students majoring in business law. He is also researching the technological disruption of professional services, including the pathway to providing ethical and reliable tax advice available to all online.
Throughout his career, Rod travelled extensively. As a tax specialist in the Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) industry, Rod held senior leadership positions with KPMG including Global Tax Lead for Mining and ENR Tax Leader for Asia Pacific. Rod has gained vast China experience, networks and knowledge having served as KPMG Australia’s China tax practice leader.
Expertise
Rod’s uses his tax advisory skills to solve the needs of clients across a broad range of industry sectors including energy, mining, utilities, renewables, infrastructure, property, agriculture, start-ups, private equity, industrial markets, transport, education, healthcare, family businesses and wealth creation.
He has helped companies expand globally, raise funds and grow their business organically and through successful M&A activity. As lead tax adviser on some of Australia’s largest transactions, Rod has experience with takeovers, mergers, IPOs, divestments, joint ventures, capital raisings and complex funding arrangements.
With specialist experiences in climate change issues, emissions trading and renewable energy, Rod has advised on the structuring and development of many windfarm, solar and hydro projects. He has contributing to tax policy reforms and spoken on tax and sustainability at global seminars in Australia, China, Brazil and Singapore.
Rod advises Chinese companies how to successfully invest in Australia. Rod supports closer business relations between Australia and China, having provided briefings to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), the China Tax authorities (SAT), the Chinese Consulate and Government officials in Beijing. He has made submissions to the Australian Treasury on enhancements to the Australia China Double Tax Agreement.
Rod has assisted companies and industries consult with Government on new policy including the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and the Carbon Tax. He appeared before the Senate Economics Committee to make submissions on tax policy reforms.
Qualifications
Rodis a Fellow of Chartered Accountant Australia and New Zealand, a Solicitor of the New South Wales Supreme Court, a Chartered Tax Adviser of the Tax Institute and a registered Tax Agent. He has a Bachelor of Economics and Master of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney.
What I do when not in suit
I mentor students as part of the University of Sydney (USYD) Business School alumni mentor program.
I mentor startup teams in the USYD Genesis startup program.
In my spare time, as a singer songwriter, I am recording an album of my own songs under the working title Triple Denim available on Soundcloud under my stage name, Tex Henderson.
- Structuring businesses and investments
- In-bound investment and funding structures
- Outbound investment and funding structures
- The Australia / China investment corridor
- M&A transactions and structures
- Startup ownership structures
- Joint venture structuring
- International taxation, BEPS and tax treaties
- FIRB and ATO tax reporting
- Corporate tax advisory
- Tax risk management, governance and transparency
- Taxation of Financial Arrangements (TOFA)
- Mining, Oil & Gas, Power utilities and Renewables transactions and structures
- Automating tax advisory processes
Rod’s uses his tax advisory skills to solve the needs of clients across a broad range of industry sectors including energy, mining, utilities, renewables, infrastructure, property, agriculture, start-ups, private equity, industrial markets, transport, education, healthcare, family businesses and wealth creation.
He has helped companies expand globally, raise funds and grow their business organically and through successful M&A activity. As lead tax adviser on some of Australia’s largest transactions, Rod has experience with takeovers, mergers, IPOs, divestments, joint ventures, capital raisings and complex funding arrangements.
With specialist experiences in climate change issues, emissions trading and renewable energy, Rod has advised on the structuring and development of many windfarm, solar and hydro projects. He has contributing to tax policy reforms and spoken on tax and sustainability at global seminars in Australia, China, Brazil and Singapore.
Rod advises Chinese companies how to successfully invest in Australia. Rod supports closer business relations between Australia and China, having provided briefings to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), the China Tax authorities (SAT), the Chinese Consulate and Government officials in Beijing. He has made submissions to the Australian Treasury on enhancements to the Australia China Double Tax Agreement.
Rod has assisted companies and industries consult with Government on new policy including the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and the Carbon Tax. He appeared before the Senate Economics Committee to make submissions on tax policy reforms.
Qualifications
Rodis a Fellow of Chartered Accountant Australia and New Zealand, a Solicitor of the New South Wales Supreme Court, a Chartered Tax Adviser of the Tax Institute and a registered Tax Agent. He has a Bachelor of Economics and Master of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney.
What I do when not in suit
I mentor students as part of the University of Sydney (USYD) Business School alumni mentor program.
I mentor startup teams in the USYD Genesis startup program.
In my spare time, as a singer songwriter, I am recording an album of my own songs under the working title Triple Denim available on Soundcloud under my stage name, Tex Henderson.