Tax
Australian Tax Lawyers . . . . .
Whether you are a business or individual, throughout all stages of the business lifecycle or your personal life, you will, in most cases, be subject to complex tax laws and regulations and it is essential to engage Australian tax lawyers.. As a business, it is crucial to ensure you implement an effective tax structure to avoid any negative tax implications at later stages and handle critical tax issues as they arise at various stages through your journey. As an individual, it is important to duly handle and manage your tax affairs and continuously meet your obligations as a tax resident or for any Australian-sourced income.
No matter how simple or complex your tax needs may be, our Australian tax lawyers will be able to guide you through the complex tax landscape in Australia and assist you in implementing appropriate tax structuring, providing tailored solutions to any tax implications and meeting your tax obligations, so you can mitigate any risks of tax consequences and stay on top of all your tax obligations.
Our Australian tax lawyers can assist with a wide range of legal services including:
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Tax Advice;
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Tax Audit;
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Tax Debt;
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Tax Disclosure;
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Tax Dispute;
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Tax Residency; and
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International Tax.
How We Can Assist You
Our Australian tax lawyers strongly support and implement a tailored approach when providing you with legal services regarding your tax affairs and understand the importance of meeting your tax obligations. Our services include, but are not limited to:
Tax Advice
From time to time, individuals and businesses may face many tax issues and concerns that requires independent legal advice to navigate the complexities of tax laws and regulations to understand tax obligations, develop strategies to minimise tax liabilities and ensuring that assets are transferred in the most tax-efficient manner. Our Australian tax lawyers can provide you with comprehensive and tailored independent legal advice on the most complex tax issues to ensure that you understand your tax obligations, resolve any tax concerns, assess and minimise risks of tax consequences and maintain tax compliance. This may also include applying to the ATO for a tax ruling.
Our Tax Advice service covers a variety of tax issues including, but not limited to:
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Tax Structuring Advice;
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Tax Restructuring Advice;
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Capital Gains Tax Advice;
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Transfer Duty Advice;
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Income Tax Advice;
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Payroll Tax Advice;
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Withholding Tax Advice;
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Land Tax Advice; and
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Goods & Services Tax Advice.
Tax Audit
Whether you are an individual or a business, you may receive a letter from the ATO or from Revenue NSW notifying you that your tax affairs are under "investigation", "review" or "audit" which may lead you to feel great concern and worry, so it is critical to ensure that you deal with any investigation, review or audit appropriately to avoid suffering any further tax consequences. Our Australian tax lawyers can assist in providing you with quality independent legal advice to ensure you appropriately deal with any investigation, review or audit and guiding you through the investigation, review or audit process so it is effectively resolved.
Tax Debt
Either as an individual or a business, you may become a tax debtor (meaning you have incurred a principal tax debt, which may also have accrued general interest charges, that has remained unpaid for a period of time). Tax debtors have a responsibility to meet their payment obligations as and when they fall due for payment and failing to pay your tax debts can trigger various collection options by the ATO, so it is essential to appropriately deal with any outstanding tax debts to avoid any further consequences. Our Australian tax lawyers can assist you in implementing a strategy to effectively resolve your outstanding tax debts so you can remove any ongoing stress and concerns regarding your outstanding tax debts. Australian tax lawyers.
Our Tax Debt services include, but are not limited to:
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Negotiating Payment Plans;
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General Interest Charge Remissions;
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Hardship Applications; and
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Garnishee Notice Advice.
Tax Disclosure
A disclosure to the ATO may be appropriate for two key reasons. Either as an individual or business, you may have earned some form of income sometime in the past which you may have failed to disclose in historical income tax returns, it may be appropriate to implement a strategy, dependent on a variety of circumstances, to voluntary disclose any historical undeclared income to avoid any potential tax consequences in the future. Your SMSF may have also committed a regulatory breach of the laws and regulations governing SMSFs and a voluntary disclosure may resolve any future consequences impacting your SMSF. Our Australian tax lawyers can provide you with tailored and comprehensive independent legal advice on any potential historical undeclared income or SMSF regulatory breaches and submitting a voluntary disclosure to the ATO to avoid being impacted by future consequences.
Our Tax Disclosure services include, but are not limited to:
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Undeclared Income Advice;
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Undeclared Income Voluntary Disclosure;
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SMSF Regulatory Breach Advice; and
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SMSF Regulatory Breach Voluntary Disclosure.
Tax Dispute
It is quite common for individuals and businesses to receive a tax ruling and end up in a tax dispute with the ATO. If you have received an unfavourable tax decision and believe that the decision may be incorrect, either by facts or legal reasoning, it is important to appropriately respond to any unfavourable tax ruling and resolve any tax disputes to avoid any tax consequences. Our Australian tax lawyers can assist you with preparing a quality and tailored tax ruling objection and resolving any new and ongoing tax disputes with the ATO, so you do not suffer any tax consequences due to unfavourable tax decisions. Australian tax lawyers.
Our Tax Dispute services include, but are not limted to:
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Tax Ruling Advice; and
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Tax Ruling Objection.
Tax Residency
Your residency status for tax purposes can be quite complex and may present a variety of tax issues and concerns which must be resolved prior to suffering any severe tax consequences as there are a number of characteristics which determine whether you are a foreign resident for Australian tax purposes. Our Australian tax lawyers can provide you with comprehensive and tailored independent legal advice so you can better understand your tax obligations in relation to your residency status and appropriately plan in advance to avoid any tax consequences.
Our Tax Residency services extend to, but is not limited to:
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Individuals Leaving Australia;
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Individuals Returning to Australia;
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Individual Moving to Australia;
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Individuals Working on a Boat;
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Companies and Trusts; and
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Resident Return Visa Holders.
International Tax
International tax laws and regulations can present a nexus of complex tax issues and concerns for individuals and businesses that must be navigated appropriately to ensure you, or your business, can mitigate any tax impacts and/or enhance business growth by planning and implementing effective tax strategies to avoid any future tax consequences. Our Australian tax lawyers can assist you in planning and implementing effective tax strategies to assess and mitigate risk of tax consequences and provide you with comprehensive and tailored independent legal advice relating to your international tax issues and concerns.
Our International Tax services include, but are not limited to:
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Foreign Business Structuring Advice;
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Foreign Business Restructuring Advice;
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Repatriation of Wealth Advice;
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Double Tax Agreement Advice;
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Advice for Australian Residents with Foreign Assets;
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Advice for Foreign Residents with Australian Assets;
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Foreign Employment Income Exemption Advice;
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Foreign Residents Source of Income Advice; and
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Advice for Foreign Residents with HECS-HELP Debt.
