Mills Oakley Lawyers

Tax is a significant expense for businesses and individuals and permeates both commercial and private transactions alike. It makes commercial sense to ensure that your affairs are structured effectively from the outset to provide “sleep at night” solutions. Taxation planning is best undertaken before you embark on any significant transaction. Taxation planning is crucial in assisting to build your wealth or your business and remaining competitive locally and globally.  Due to broad anti tax avoidance provisions at a state, federal and international level, planning has to be integrated within a dominant and meaningful commercial and business plan that is not “tax driven”.

We strive to provide you with comprehensive solutions to address not only tax implications but more importantly commercial implications. We give you simple to understand advice in an area of law that is over-complicated and ever changing.

Mills Oakley provides clients with the full range of taxation law services including:

• Income tax, capital gains tax, stamp duty, land tax, payroll tax and all other direct and indirect taxes at federal and state level
• Buying, selling or restructuring a business or ownership of property
• Undertaking a commercial venture or project
• International expansion including transfer pricing, thin capitalisation rules and issues arising under the OECD double tax treaty
• Injecting equity or debt into a business or investment or remaining working capital
• Expanding or restructuring an enterprise for a trade sale or IPO
• Asset protection planning
• Personal estate planning and business succession planning, including superannuation
• Private ruling applications or objections, including preparation of applications and liaising with the Australian Taxation Office
• Handling tax audits, including preparing objections, appeals and settlement negotiations

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This year is a challenging year for tax professionals and their clients with further and significant changes to taxation laws. The recent changes to the superannuation laws, in particular for self managed superannuation funds, provide great opportunities for clients to build their wealth and structure their affairs tax effectively. In light of these changes and the current state of the Australian economy, now is the time to ensure clients are on top of their taxation issues and affairs.  

Our team

Our team is dedicated to keeping up to date with the latest and most challenging issues across all areas of tax in order to best serve our clients via practical solutions to those challenges.

Jack Stuk is a long standing Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.
Most recently, Jack Stuk presented at a 2008 Breakfast Club Session on the numerous Taxpayer Alerts released by the ATO.

Taxation team members present papers at tax discussion groups with tax accountants and we will soon be commencing a seminar series addressing some of the many challenging and interesting tax issues facing small to medium business entities today.  

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“Your lateral but commonsense approach to solving the many complex issues involved (with the recent re-structure and related tax matters) saved us an enormous amount of time, grief and legal costs.  Again, your work has been nothing short of exemplary”

Tony Jones
CEO
National Tax & Accountants Association
Melbourne, Australia

“Our Kentucky client was extremely grateful for the care and speed with which you and your firm handled this very difficult matter.  It looks to your firm as It's Australian counsel”

Joseph J Dehner
Chairman, International Services Group
Frost Brown Todd Attorneys
Kentucky, USA

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Jack Stuk
Partner
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Harry Giannakidis
Associate
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John Storey
Associate
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Maria Lucas
Associate
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