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Minter Ellison's tax lawyers are experts at providing our clients with innovative, practical and targeted advice, focused on their business and commercial needs. We have a comprehensive understanding of the tax laws but one of the keys to our success is the understanding we have of our clients, their business and the industries in which they operate.
With one of the largest tax groups of any law firm in the Asia Pacific region, we offer a comprehensive tax offering that covers the full spectrum of tax laws, including income tax, capital gains tax, international tax, stamp duty, GST and other federal and state taxes. Our team takes a proactive approach and works with clients to provide them with not only the technical answer, but also commercially viable and practical solutions that fit within the parameters of each transaction.
Our team works closely with the firm's other leading lawyers to provide our Australian and international clients with a seamless and full-service legal offering. We have a particular strength in the financial services, infrastructure, property, funds and resources sectors, and regularly act for some of the world's largest banks, financial institutions, funds management, property, energy and mining companies. Through our long-standing referral relationships with some of the leading international tax practices in the Asia, Europe and the Americas , we have advised on some of the largest and most complex cross-border global transactions undertaken in recent years.
And if any of our clients find themselves in a tax audit or dispute, our specialist tax controversy lawyers are well placed to represent them in negotiations with the revenue authorities, as well as the litigation process.
Our specialist tax advisory expertise includes:
- corporate tax (including mergers & acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and capital raisings)
- private equity transactions
- international tax issues (including the anti-deferral rules (CFCs, FIFs and transferor trusts), thin capitalisation, withholding tax and transfer pricing);
- structured finance tax issues, including project and infrastructure financing, securitisation, and leasing and asset financing
- employee incentive tax issues, including share and option plans (working closely with our Executive Remuneration Team)
- employment-based tax issues (including FBT, payroll tax, superannuation and termination payments)
- federal and state indirect taxes, including GST and stamp duty
- investigations and audits by both federal and state revenue authorities, and
- tax disputes, settlements and litigation.
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