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Commercial Barrister Brisbane


Specialising in tax


David W Marks KC

David had a 10 year background working for a solicitors’ firm in the area of tax law, before being called to the Bar in 2000. David took silk in 2015.

David specialises in Australian tax law. His traditional Chancery practice acts in the areas of tax advice, tax appeals, companies, trusts, equity, insolvency, property & estates. He also appears and advises in corporate, commercial, professional negligence, and administrative law matters.

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Areas of Practice

Tax and Revenue

Chancery

Commercial & Administrative

Professional Negligence

Trust & Estates

Opinions To Accounting Firms

Recent Cases

27 Jul 2023

Hennessy v State of Queensland (Queensland Health) (No 2)


Queensland Industrial Relations Commission

Industrial law - application to dismiss on public interest grounds

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30 Jul 2021

Schneider v Queensland Building and Construction Commission


Queensland Court of Appeal

Nature:

Contracts - when price due

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18 Dec 2020

Nendy v Armstrong


Queensland Supreme Court

Nature:

Proprietary estoppel; adverse possession

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Publications and associations

David is active in professional associations, performing committee work, on technical tax matters and their disciplinary functions.

David has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide in Tax, and in Wills & Estates Litigation. Doyle’s rank David as preeminent King’s Counsel in tax in Queensland, 2023.

 

Internationally, David is ranked by Chamber & Partners as a Barrister in Tax, and by Who’s Who Legal in both Advisory and Controversy, for Corporate Tax.

 

Leading Tax Barristers – Queensland, 2023

 

 

 

Recent Publications

ER Law – PowerPoints for Boundaries & Immunities Presentation

David Marks KC & Rachel O'Donnell

PowerPoints

Big Things in the Sea – Jointly written with Rachel O’Donnell

Paper for The Tax Institute's "State Taxes Conference", Darwin, 17 Jul 2023

Link to Journal Article Conference Paper

The rule against perpetuities – opportunities for advisers

Article in The Tax Specialist

Link to Journal Article Conference Paper - TTI Trusts Intensive 23

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David accepts instructions from lawyers. David also accepts opinion briefs from accountants who are members of the major professional associations.

CONTACT DAVID


+61 7 3236 5477 | +61 414 452 073

dmarks@qldbar.asn.au

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