Our nationally recognised expert tax team has extensive international and domestic tax experience and commercial experience. This combined expertise ensures a seamless approach to commercial transactions, which best maximises our client’s objectives. Our team is also highly experienced in tax audits, objections and tax litigation.
Commercial Transactions – mergers, acquisitions, structuring, restructuring and succession planning
- Capital gains tax (CGT) issues, including small business concessions, rollovers and concessions
- Employee v Contractor
- Duty and corporate reconstruction relief
- Corporate dividends and trust distributions, Division 7A
- Employee share schemes, options and fringe benefits
- Goods and services tax (GST) issues, including going concern exemption and GST groups
- Payroll tax grouping
- Consolidation of corporate groups, including tax sharing agreements
Property Transactions
- Capital and income / revenue account dichotomy, including land banking and trading stock issues
- GST issues, including going concern, farm land exemptions and margin scheme
- Duty on land transfers and other dutiable transactions
- Acquisitions of interests in landholders
- Acquisitions by foreign purchasers
- Land tax
- Duty and land tax exemptions and concessions
High net worth individuals
- Tax planning
- Asset protection
- Succession planning
International expansion and ex-pat issues
- Outbound expansion
- Inbound investment
Audits, investigations and objections
- International tax audit, Small Business Commission audits, tax agent reviews and other.
Tax litigation
- Federal and State taxes
- Federal Court, Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Supreme Courts (Victoria and New South Wales).
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