About Us
Fielding Advisory only operates with senior staff so your team will not be wasting their time with inexperienced junior staff. Todd Fielding and Kelvin Brown have over 50 years in R&D tax experience between them across many different industries, including 14 years at AusIndustry for Kelvin. This means they are able to offer clients senior level R&D advisory services, providing you more value for money.
Todd Fielding - Managing Director
Tax Agent,
Chartered Accountant
B.Eng(Surv), M.Comm
Todd Fielding began his career as a Geomatic Engineer and Surveyor before moving into R&D tax incentive consulting in 1997. Todd was an R&D Tax Partner at Deloitte for 10 years. In this role he was also National Operating unit leader for the R&D tax group as well as the R&D tax leader for the Energy & Resources Industry. Prior to Deloitte, Todd worked at KPMG for 13 years with 5 years as an R&D Tax Partner.
For over 27 years, Todd has worked with many small and large companies across all industries from biotechs, agricultural, mining, manufacturing, engineering, software/IT and defence. His experience ranges from helping start-up companies maximise their refundable R&D tax offsets to assisting large multinationals claiming the non-refundable tax offset.
He has also assisted many companies with AusIndustry and ATO audits as well as prepared documentation to assist with R&D AAT cases.
Todd works collaboratively with his clients to get the best outcome for the R&D work they are carrying out. He considers that visiting a company’s R&D lab or site is critical for gaining a deep understanding of a client’s project.
“I love to see first-hand the great things Australian companies are developing and to help them in maximising their R&D tax incentive claims.”
Todd has been a judge for the Australian Technology Competition and was nominated for Australian Mining Magazine’s contribution to mining award in 2016.
Kelvin has over 30 years of dedicated experience in the R&D Tax Incentive program. He commenced with the Department of Industry in 1988 and had over 14 years of experience in working in the administrative role of the R&D Tax Incentive program – his last role being head of the R&D Tax Audit Assessment branch.
Since then he has gained industrial experience as an R&D Tax Manager for a large Australian food company before joining the Big 4 Accounting firms – KPMG and then Deloitte.
Kelvin assists companies to maximise their entitlements to the R&D Tax Incentive and various other government assistance programs.
His hands-on approach assists with the preparation of R&D applications, development of R&D project support documents, and strategies for ATO and AusIndustry audits.
Kelvin is focused on knowledge transfer and assisting companies with developing systems and processes which maximise their R&D entitlements.
Kelvin Brown
R&D Tax Director
B.Metallurgy
Natasha Fielding - Director,
Tax Agent,
Chartered Accountant B.Comm/M.Tax
Natasha has over 25 years experience in tax and business services. She started her tax career at KPMG in Sydney and spent a year at KPMG in London. She then worked as Compliance Tax Manager at Lion Nathan responsible for the management of all of the groups taxes including income tax, GST, FBT, excise, WET, customs duties, payroll tax and workers comp.
She then spent 10 years as Tax Manager at CBA in the bank’s tax advice area providing tax advice to the business in areas such as leasing, acquisitions/disposals/due diligence work and retail products.
Natasha has been involved in providing tax compliance work to various entities ranging from large corporates to SME’s and individuals, including assisting entities with Streamlined Assurance Reviews for income tax and GST with the Australian Taxation Office.
Her broad range of experience has allowed her to assist clients in varied industries in areas such as bookkeeping, income tax returns, BAS’s, financial accounting as well as assistance with Australian Tax Office Reviews.