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Khai-Yin Lim

Bar : 2019

Admitted : 2001

Khai-Yin specialises in tax and revenue law as an advocate and adviser, appearing in Commonwealth and State courts and tribunals. She acts for taxpayers and for the Commissioner of Taxation.

Phone : +61 3 9225 8155

Mobile : 0408 996 877

Email : lim@vicbar.com.au

Chambers : Owen Dixon Chambers West, Level 17, Room 3, 525 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Expertise

Profile

Khai-Yin specialises in tax and revenue law as an advocate and adviser appearing in Commonwealth and State courts and tribunals.

She is frequently briefed to advise and appear in tax, trusts and commercial matters at Commonwealth and State courts and tribunals.

Khai-Yin acts for companies, trusts, high net-worth individuals, SMEs and the Commissioner of Taxation in income tax and indirect taxes.

Her briefs frequently involve property transfers, objections to assessments, remission of penalties, duty exemptions, CGT small business concessions, responses to position papers, Australian Taxation Office reviews/audits, State Revenue Office investigations, director duties and penalties, trustee duties and powers, effective disclaimers, trust resettlement/vesting/terminations, share value shifting, commercial debt forgiveness, deceased estates, CGT life interests, testamentary trusts and charitable trusts.

Khai-Yin holds a Master of Taxation from the University of Melbourne, and is a Chartered Tax Adviser and Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.

Before coming to the Bar, Khai-Yin practised as a tax and commercial solicitor at Herbert Geer and Rigby Cooke, and prior to that as a corporate and international tax consultant at Andersen.

Khai-Yin’s CV is linked here.

Publications

Television Education Network - Developing farmland and the tax tipping point, 18 June 2026
Victorian Bar / Tax Bar Association – Trusts and income tax after Guardian and Carter, 25 May 2022
Law Firm – Civil litigation at Magistrates Court and County Court, 1 April 2022
Greens List – CGT life interest issues, 17 March 2022
Law Institute of Victoria – Tax tips and traps, 25 February 2022
Tax Institute of Australia – Real estate – what is taxed and how it is taxed, 4 November 2021
Tax Bar Association – Section 353-10 notice seeking particulars about documents related to privilege claim – improper or not?, November 2021
Television Education Network – The taxing issue of property development: key documentation essentials, 20 October 2021
Sound Education in Taxation – Availability of tax losses in a downturn economy, August 2021
Greens List – Allocation of profits by professional firms, 3 June 2021
Tax Institute of Australia Tax Specialist – The new principal purpose test in anti-avoidance rules (Vol 24(5) pp 211-227) June 2021
University of New South Wales Practical Legal Training – Text guides and assessments for Administrative Law Practice, May 2021
Lexis Nexis Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin – Amendments to the research and development tax incentive scheme (Vol 33(10) pp 170-173) March 2021
Tax Institute of Australia Victorian Discussion Group – Commissioner of Taxation v Sharpcan 21 October 2020
Australian Taxation Office / Tax Bar Association – Significant litigation update (Hart’s case and The Trustee for the Michael Hayes Family Trust case) 25 June 2020, Refresher on trust law basics 7 November 2019, Core AAT Skills – Bar table etiquette, 17 June 2019
Victorian Bar Commbar Matters – Court reduces administrators’/liquidators’ excessive remuneration due to inadequate reports, 30 May 2019

Memberships & Committees

To get in touch with Khai-Yin Lim | or for more information please contact the Clerk on:

+61 3 9225 7222

clerkb@greenslist.com.au