Advice on the tax affairs of your business, clear, current and compliant.

Tax touches every significant decision a business makes: its structure, its transactions, its distributions, its dealings between related entities. Our business tax practice gives owners and their companies clear legal advice on the tax consequences of what they are doing and planning — with a consistent focus on compliance, sound records and positions that withstand review.

We advise on

Structures and their tax treatment

The tax consequences of companies, trusts and combinations of both — on establishment, in operation and on restructure — so the structure chosen for commercial reasons carries no tax surprises.

Transactions

The tax dimensions of buying, selling and reorganising businesses, including the capital gains tax consequences and the concessions and rollovers that may apply.

Trust taxation

Distributions, resolutions, streaming and the compliance obligations of trustees — an area where informality is routinely expensive.

Related-party dealings

Loans, payments and arrangements between companies, trusts, shareholders and their associates, including Division 7A compliance.

Employment and contractor taxes

Obligations arising from how a business engages its people.

Working with your accountant

Tax outcomes are delivered jointly by legal advice and accounting practice. We work hand-in-glove with our clients’ accountants — legal analysis and documentation from the firm, tax agent services from them.

Well suited to

Trading businesses and their owners; trustees of trading and investment trusts; businesses restructuring or transacting; owners who want their tax affairs demonstrably in order.

Enquiries

Talk to us before the question becomes a problem.

Initial consultations are confidential, and you’ll leave with our preliminary view — not a brochure.

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