Victoria Raft

Executive summary

Victoria is a Director in the Corporate & International Tax team with BDO in Sydney. She has more than 13 years’ experience working in collaboration with clients, including large private organisations, ASX listed companies and international overseas multinationals, on a range of commercial and tax related matters.

Victoria’s experience extends to advising on inbound and outbound structures, tax consolidation, tax due diligence on M&A transactions, restructuring and divestments and general tax planning. 

Victoria has delivered a broad range of income tax advisory services to clients across many industry sectors, including real estate and construction, pharmaceuticals, information and technology software and retail.

Expertise

• International tax
• Tax due diligence
• Tax consolidation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Trusts
• Capital gains tax
• Corporate tax compliance and advisory
• Tax risk management
• Tax audits.

Experience

• Provision of annual tax compliance services to multinational groups, large private groups and ASX listed entities across sectors including technology, media, entertainment and telecommunications, manufacturing and wholesale, real estate and construction, retail, and trust funds. Engagements included the implementation of strategic growth structures to support business expansion.
• Conducting tax due diligence assignments on domestic and international transactions in relation to buy-side, sell-side, IPOs and restructure transactions for clients including private equity funds, large private groups and large multi-nationals across various industries and sectors.
• Assisting with multi-level restructure within the aged care industry which included the application of available roll-over reliefs and oversight and review of the implementation of the restructure documentation.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting 
• Chartered Accountant, CA ANZ.