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Jack Aquilina specialises in tax and revenue law across all areas of Federal and State taxation. He also appears in appellate matters, commercial law and public law disputes.

Jack has been recognised in the Best Lawyers 'One to Watch in Australia' as a leading practitioner in tax law in the 2025, 2026 and 2027 editions.

Jack's proven experience deploying a strategic, commercial, and evidence-based approach to managing reviews, audit and complex litigation has enabled him to achieve commercial and principled outcomes in the best interests of his clients. Jack has extensive experience and specialty in complicated and novel matters arising in respect of commonwealth and state revenue law, including Income Tax, GST, Stamp Duty, Land Tax, Payroll Tax, the R&D tax incentive, Superannuation and the Film Producer Offset. Jack has also has experience appearing for the Commissioner of Taxation and has acted for other regulators, such as Screen Australia.

Jack was an Academic Practitioner at La Trobe University Law School where he led the tax and administrative law offerings. Jack has also been appointed a Teaching Scholar at Deakin University Law School teaching tax law and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, lecturing within the Tax Law Masters program.

Jack is a doctoral candidate at Deakin University Law School completing research in the discipline of the law of taxation.

Prior to Dentons, Jack had an extensive experience in private practice as a tax disputes specialist in senior positions at Holding Redlich, KPMG Law and Ernst & Young.

Jack has been admitted to the Masters of Laws of Taxation at the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours (Tax Law) and a Bachelor of Arts from La Trobe University.

Jack is an admitted Australian Lawyer and Officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria and also registered on the registry of the High Court of Australia.

Jack is also a Fellow of The Tax Institute, a member of the Law Council of Australia's Taxation Committee and a member of the Law Institute of Victoria's Tax and Revenue and, separately the State Taxes Committee.

From August 2017-August 2018, Jack served as Senior Associate to their Honours Justice Priest, Beach and McLeish of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria and to her Honour Justice Taylor of the Supreme Court Criminal Trial Division.

Jack Aquilina is reading with Angela Lee and his senior mentor is Hon. G. Tony Pagone KC AC.