Services - Specialist Tax Consulting Services

Kelly+Partners is the only boutique firm that offers the full range of direct, international and indirect tax services. These include Income Tax, Fringe Benefits Tax, Research and Development, Goods and Services Tax, Australia-wide Stamp Duties, Payroll Tax, Land Tax, superannuation, transfer pricing, Government grants, and Customs and Excise.

Kelly+Partners Tax Consulting Group

When businesses anticipate and manage their tax liabilities, their cash flow improves, their risk of Australian Tax Office audit adjustments goes down, and their profits go up. A stronger business means a lower risk profile, greater valuation, lower interest rates and many other benefits. Business profits are directly affected by tax laws and indirectly affected by other Government policies that rely on existing tax laws for their operation.

Kelly+Partners Tax Consulting Group have a number of ways to help you build a more profitable, stronger business by managing your total tax risk.

Our tax experts will help you to understand your tax risks and liabilities across your entire business. Just as importantly, we will show you how sound planning can help you to reduce your liabilities and manage your corporate tax governance.

Experts attuned to your business

Businesses usually need advice on more than one area of tax. Our teams comprise a core group of Kelly+Partners taxation experts, each with ample knowledge and experience across the tax spectrum.

Rather than referring you to a different specialist for each tax area, the advice you require will come from your core Kelly+Partners tax team.

This gives you the convenience of working with a group of experts who know your business and its tax issues very well. It also ensures that our advice is consistent and takes into account the other taxes that impact your business.

Our taxation expertise is backed by Kelly+Partners National Technical Office. This provides us with rigorous training, education and in-depth technical information to support your business.

Our expertise

Direct Tax

We will assist you to understand the tax consequences of your business decisions and how changes to direct tax rules affect your business.

Our direct tax advice and strategies have assisted many businesses to optimise their tax position.

We can assist you with:

1. Reasonably Arguable Position files
2. Capital raisings, floats and due diligence
3. Reorganisations
4. Tax consolidation
5. Tax implications of mergers, acquisitions and divestments
6. Preparation of applications for private rulings
7. Preparation of objections
8. Tax audits
9. Negotiation with the Australian Taxation Office
10. Tax risk management
11. Tax compliance
12. General tax advice
13. Strategic tax advice

International Tax

The global nature of business and labour has brought about a complex and growing number of tax issues for businesses. Keeping on top of those issues, as well as planning and implementing effective tax strategies to minimise risk, is very challenging.

Kelly+Partners Tax Consulting’s experts have innovative strategies and proven skills in managing international tax issues.

They can assist you with:

1. International tax management
2. Expatriate services
3. Inward or outward bound international tax services
4. Cross-border indirect taxes
5. Transfer pricing

Indirect Tax

We will help you to understand the role indirect tax plays in your business. Not only that, but we can boost your own expertise with our indirect tax training.

There are a number of other ways in which Kelly+Partners can help you to manage your indirect tax commitments.

Firstly, we have a number of innovative tax tools, including Kelly+Partners Reasonably Arguable Position files and the Annual Business Activity Statement Reconciliation file. These tools increase the effectiveness of our service by streamlining the administration that comes with indirect taxes, saving time and lightening your workload.

Secondly, Kelly+Partners Goods and Services Tax (GST ) Agency Services means we can act as a local representative for Australian and international clients, assisting with their GST and indirect tax compliance obligations.

Thirdly, we can deal with the Australian Taxation Office and various State and Territory Offices of State Revenue on your behalf so you can stay focused on your business.

In addition, we can assist you by stamping documentation, lodging returns, submitting private ruling requests, objections and appeals, and dispute resolution. We also prepare briefs to barristers to advise and provide commercial negotiation support and lobbying services for businesses and individual clients.

Our indirect tax services comprise:

1. Goods and Services Tax
2. Australia-wide Stamp Duties
3. Payroll Tax
4. Land Tax
5. Customs and Excise
6. Fuel taxes, including diesel and alternative fuel grants
7. Fuel Tax Credits
8. Luxury Car Tax
9. Wine Equalisation Tax
10. Cross-border transactions, including International Value Added Tax
11. Fringe Benefits Tax
12. Research and Development
13. Government Grants