K&L Gates has bolstered its tax disputes offering, snagging a partner from Deloitte with experience in transfer pricing controversies for its Sydney office.
The NSW tax office has succeeded on appeal in its fight with Uber over five years of payroll tax totalling more than $81 million, with an appeals court finding that payments made to drivers are taxable.
A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.
Pitcher Partners has won its bid for a separate hearing on whether the liquidator of collapsed IT company Titan Interactive is entitled to any relief on its claims the accounting firm breached its duty of care in providing tax advice.
The liquidator of six companies linked to the nephew of former Nudie Juice founder Andrew Binetter has secured approval for a settlement in a case over the fallout of a massive tax evasion scheme.
Baker McKenzie has poached a banking and finance partner from Norton Rose Fulbright.
A liquidator has opened his case over the alleged misuse of funds by now defunct Dyldam Developments, as the court hears of “oddities” in financial records and the spaghetti-like structure of 157 interrelated entities.
Likening its position to the “Goldilocks zone”, EY has secured documents from rival Alvarez & Marsal as it weighs potential litigation over the mass departure of partners and staff from its international tax practice.
Hall & Wilcox has brought proceedings against accounting firm Pitcher Partners, alleging it breached its duty of care by providing negligent advice on late superannuation payments.
Derrimut Health and Fitness has challenged the Australian Taxation Office’s rejection of its bid to pay a $14.6 million tax debt in installments.