Expert Services
Small Myers Hughes Tax Lawyers offer practical advice in plain English. We will tell you realistically what your prospects are of success against the ATO and put in place strategies which may include negotiation or litigation - to best help you deal with the ATO.
Click on an area below to learn more about how we can specifically help you with your taxation matter.
Tax Law & Taxation Advice
Taxation laws are usually confusing and complex and most advisors like to keep it that way.We do not.
Our tax advice lawyers explain tax laws in a way that is easy to understand with practical advice overlaying the technical jargon.
We provide high level advice and solutions relating to taxation matters, including:
- Reducing payroll tax
- Eliminating stamp duty on transfers
- Eliminating self managed super fund "death tax"
- Debt instalment trust for self managed super funds
- Analysing whether a transaction is on capital or income account
- Residency
- Source
- Unpaid present entitlements in Division 7A
- Corporate limited partnerships
- Dividend access shares
- Small business concessions
- Bamford trust amendments
- Trust distributions
- Resettlement of trusts
- Child maintenance trusts and tax effective children
- Tax effective divorce
- Trust cloning and trust splitting
- Corporation re-organisations
- Part 4A
Tax Litigation & ATO Dispute Services
The ATO engages specialist tax lawyers to fight tax matters.
So should you.
Small Myers Hughes Tax Lawyers has the tax litigation experience and success rate to allow you to fight on the same level as the ATO.
Our litigation results show that success against the ATO is possible. Our success record includes:
- Penalties for failure to lodge
- Director's penalty notices
- Tax objections
- Tax appeals, AAT and Federal Court
- Departure prohibition orders
- Negotiations with the ATO for payments
- Restructuring following adverse assessments
- Assisting with audits
- ATO raids
- ATO interviews
Co-operative Tax Planning Services
Clients regularly tell us that their pet hate is lawyers, accountants and financial planners arguing amongst themselves, rather than working together to achieve the best outcome for them. We hate this too.
Small Myers Hughes Tax Lawyers work closely with accountants and financial planners to achieve the optimum taxation and asset protection structures for families and SME businesses, including:
- Tax effective divorce
- Dividend access shares to access franking credits
- Consolidation
- Share sale agreements
- Superannuation death benefit planning
Contact Us Now
Phone: | + 61 7 5552 6666 |
Fax: | + 61 7 5528 0955 |
Email: | info@smh.net.au |
Address: | Level 2, 17 Welch St Southport, Qld, 4215 |
Postal: | PO Box 1876 Southport 4215 |