Samantha Scheid

Executive summary

Samantha is a Director in the Corporate & International Tax team at BDO based in Brisbane. She provides holistic, commercial tax advice and practical solutions to her broad range of global clients including ASX-listed companies, large private businesses operating domestically and overseas, and individuals with complex international tax affairs.

Her expertise includes large scale tax structuring, planning and compliance services for foreign and domestically owned private groups. She also specialises in expatriate taxes, complex deceased estates and tax matters arising from divorce.

Samantha commenced her career at BDO as an undergraduate and has over eight years’ corporate and international tax experience. She has developed specialist knowledge of the financial services, property and construction sectors and has significant experience in coordinating complicated tax projects across multiple jurisdictions.

Samantha is a trusted adviser, valued for her technical expertise, commercial acumen, and ability to deliver clear, practical advice for clients navigating complex tax matters.

Expertise

• Large scale tax planning and compliance
• Tax structuring
• Expatriate taxes
• Property & construction
• Financial services
• Deceased estates & divorce

Experience

• Delivered tax compliance services for a number of large private foreign and domestically owned group, including management of risks and opportunities
• Supported clients through ATO reviews and audits, including developing engagement strategy, managing relationships and driving timely resolution of disputes
• Advised a large global supermarket on permanent establishment status and all employment tax issues relating to cross-border employees
• Advised the executor of an Australian deceased estate with complex tax issues across 13 countries, providing clear, pragmatic advice to assist with the administration of the estate and management of all international tax obligations
• Provided expatriate services to an Italian listed company for their in-bound and out-bound Australian expatriates, including the provision of residency advice, tax briefings, hypothetical tax calculations, tax equalisation policy design, assignment structuring and Australian income tax compliance services

Qualifications and affiliations

• Master of Taxation
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Business Management
• Fellow, The Tax Institute