Shaun van Dijk
Principal, Intellect Labs
- TPB registration: 25259958, individually registered as a tax agent with the Tax Practitioners Board, conditioned to R&D tax incentive deductions.
- Firm registration: Intellect Labs holds TPB registration 26053030.
- Experience: Practising in R&D Tax Incentive advisory for 18 years.
Background
Shaun is a Principal at Intellect Labs, a non-dilutive funding advisory firm based in Brisbane specialising in R&D Tax Incentive compliance, grant strategy, collaboration management, and strategy and advisory work for innovative commercial businesses.
Before Intellect Labs, Shaun spent close to a decade practising R&D tax incentive advisory within IPH Limited's advisory practice, as Associate Director and Senior Manager, Innovation Incentives at Glasshouse Advisory and as Manager, R&D Tax Incentives at Griffith Hack, before Glasshouse Advisory's acquisition by Grant Thornton Australia in 2020. He began his R&D tax incentive practice at BDO Australia as R&D Incentives Supervisor.
Education
- Master of Commerce, Professional Accounting, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Laws, LLB, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Science, Drug Design and Development, The University of Queensland
- Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
Professional Standing
Shaun holds a Certificate of Public Practice with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, in addition to his individual TPB registration. He is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and the Research & Development Tax Advisors Association.
Recognition
Shaun is a consecutive Client Choice Award winner and finalist. The Client Choice Awards are judged purely on feedback from firms’ clients. Firms’ clients and referrers complete a rigorous feedback survey prepared by Beaton. Each respondent answers a series of questions to rate one or more firms’ brands and performance on a range of criteria including service quality, value for money, price and innovation.
Track Record
Shaun has prepared and submitted over 1,000 R&D Tax Incentive claims, representing well into the hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D expenditure claimed.
He has not had a claim he has prepared reduced or disallowed at a completed ATO or DISR compliance review, and has secured favourable outcomes across multiple advance findings, overseas findings, and private binding rulings with the ATO.
Shaun has also turned around adverse findings from DISR on R&D claims for large ASX-listed entities via the government's internal review process.
Verification
Registration details for Shaun van Dijk and Intellect Labs can be verified on the Tax Practitioners Board public register. Shaun is also on LinkedIn.