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HopgoodGanim’s Taxation and Revenue specialists advise clients on a wide range of strategic taxation matters and on how to respond to taxation challenges. We work with emerging business in their development stages to advise on effective tax structuring for future success, established business who need to fine tune their taxation arrangements, and businesses involved in disputes with revenue authorities.

As a highly specialised team, our taxation and revenue specialists work closely with our other practice groups including corporate advisory, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and IPO’s, business services and structuring, and resources and energy to advise on taxation issues as part of larger deals and transactions.

Areas of Expertise

  • Taxation audits
  • Settlement and debt negotiation
  • Taxation prosecutions, objections and appeals
  • Advice on direct and indirect appeals
  • Taxation implications of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and capital raising activities
  • Taxation obligations of company directors
  • Taxation related to the resources sector, including the Mineral Resource Rent Tax and the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax

Our Experience

  • Advising Macquarie Private Wealth on how the decision in Bamford v Commissioner of Taxation, handed down by the High Court of Australia on 30 March 2010, impacts on the operation of a trust.
  • Successfully defending a high-wealth client involved in the transport industry, who was prosecuted by the ATO's High Wealth Individual Task Force for tax related matters.
  • Advising the Revenue Division of the Australian Government Solicitor's office on the revenue implications of public company floats and public capital raisings.
  • Advising JAB Resources on the impact of the de-merger and scrip for scrip rollover CGT rules on capital raising proposals.
  • Advising on the tax issues that impact on the structure of executive equity arrangements.
  • Advising on dealings with revenue authorities, including in relation to international tax arrangements and Project Wickenby enquiries.
 

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Recent Publications

Building and Construction Alert: Building and construction companies to report payments made to contractors - 27 Jan 2012... read more

Resources and Energy Alert: Duty to be payable on the acquisition of resources exploration tenements in Queensland - 23 Jan 2012... read more

Taxation and Revenue Alert: Changes to living-away-from-home fringe benefits announced - 16 Jan 2012... read more

Taxation and Revenue Alert: Not for profit reforms to change governance and tax concessions for charities - 5 Dec 2011... read more

Competition and Trade Practices Alert: What you need to know about passing the costs of Australia’s carbon tax on to your customers - 10 Nov 2011... read more

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