• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

David W Marks QC

+61 7 3236 5477
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Cases
  • Recent Papers
  • Contact

Commercial Barrister Brisbane


Specialising in tax


David W Marks QC

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.

More About David

Areas of Practice

Tax and Revenue

Chancery

Commercial & Administrative

Professional Negligence

Trust & Estates

Opinions To Accounting Firms

Recent Cases

30 Jul 2021

Schneider v Queensland Building and Construction Commission


Queensland Court of Appeal

Nature:

Contracts - when price due

View Judgment

18 Dec 2020

Nendy v Armstrong


Queensland Supreme Court

Nature:

Proprietary estoppel; adverse possession

View Judgment

14 Sep 2020

Resolute Mining Ltd v Commissioner of State Revenue


Queensland Supreme Court

Nature:

Stamp duty; consideration; contingencies

View Judgment Costs decision

View All Cases

Publications and associations

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

Most recently David has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide as:

Preeminent Taxation Barrister – Queensland 2020 & 2021
Leading Wills and Estates Litigation Senior Counsel – Queensland 2020 & 2021

 

Recent Publications

Discretionary Trusts – Reviewing Exercise of Discretion

Paper presented for Legalwise in Brisbane

Conference Paper Slides for presentation

Gift & Loan Back transactions; and ATO’s new debt-collecting techniques

Gift & Loan Back transactions; and ATO's new debt-collecting techniques

Unpublished Speaking Notes TTI Conference Paper

Algorithms, discretions and decisions in the “robo” age

The Tax Institute's 21st Annual States' Taxation Conference 2021; published in The Tax Specialist vol 25(3), 2022

"The Tax Specialist" at TTI website

View All Publications

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

Copyright © 2022 David W Marks QC | Liability limited by a scheme approved under professional standards legislation.
Website by