OUR SERVICES
ATO Tax Help: One Team for Every ATO Matter
Need ATO tax help? From audit defence to dispute resolution, penalties and complex advice, our tax lawyers and accountants in Sydney work every matter together.
HOW WE HELP
Our ATO tax help services
Our specialist tax lawyers take over from day one, managing all ATO contact, protecting your position and negotiating the best outcome available.
We prepare objections and run ART and Federal Court appeals, building the legal case to overturn or reduce an assessment.
A private binding ruling gives certainty on how the ATO will treat a transaction. We prepare well argued applications and also challenge unfavourable rulings.
Base penalties run from 25% to 75% of a shortfall (ATO penalties). We build the case to reduce or remit administrative penalties and interest, based on your conduct and circumstances.
Offshore income, foreign assets, CGT, residency and structuring, with clear and defensible advice backed by both legal and accounting expertise.
We manage returns, BAS and lodgement obligations for individuals, businesses, trusts and SMSFs, accurate, on time and audit ready.
HOW IT WORKS
How getting ATO tax help works
1. Initial call for consultation
First, tell us what the ATO has sent you. The first consultation is confidential and costs nothing.
2. We review where you stand
Next, we read the notice, check the assessment and tell you plainly what your options are and what each one is likely to mean.
3. We deal with the ATO
Finally, we take over the correspondence, lodge the objection or disclosure, and negotiate the penalties and the debt on your behalf. Where both sides can agree, that may include a settlement under the ATO’s own process (ATO: settlement).
PROOF
Recent outcomes
Cash-business audit
The ATO audited a company running six city cafes under the cash-economy taskforce and issued a $900,000 position paper on the indirect method.
Outcome: settled at $135,000, and the client put better controls in place.
A $10m overseas matter
AUSTRAC data flagged family funds of over $10m held in the client’s name. The ATO then assessed tax and penalties nearing $5m, mortgaged property and blocked travel.
Outcome: settled at about $1m; as a result, the ATO released the mortgages and lifted the travel ban.
Penalties and interest remitted
The ATO heavily penalised a client with a long medical history for several years of unlodged returns. In response, we gathered the circumstances and put the case to the ATO.
Outcome: the ATO removed the full penalty and the general interest charges.
IN THEIR WORDS
“The mess was cleared up and resolved in a much faster timeframe than I could ever have imagined possible.”
A client, income tax issues with the ATO. Names withheld for privacy.
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