Michael Parker

Partner

+61 3 9603 3540

michael.parker@hallandwilcox.com.au

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Current Practice

Michael’s practice focuses on tax disputes, capital gains tax, business sales and acquisitions and restructuring. He also acts in matters that deal with:

domestic income tax;
tax compliance;
tax training; and
tax due diligence.

Experience

Michael has a broad client base ranging from accountants and lawyers, small and medium business enterprises as well as high net worth individuals. He has provided a broad range of advice for these clients, including:

handling tax disputes including audits, objections and AAT and Federal Court litigation;
advising tax consolidated groups on their tax sharing agreements and entry and exit consequences;
providing tax expert reports for various product disclosure statements;
advising clients on structuring business sales, mergers, restructures and acquisitions so as to best take advantage of available tax concessions and tax rollovers;
providing advice on tax debt/equity rules;
advising on the operation and effects of the tax consolidation rules; and
providing advice on the application of various trust and company tax loss rules and inter-entity loan rules.

Qualifications

Michael has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. He became partner in 2007.

Michael is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria, an associate member of CPA Australia, a fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.

Prior to joining the firm, Michael worked in the International Tax section of a Big 4 accounting firm, specialising in consulting and compliance work for large multi-national organisations.

Publications

30 June 2012 Trustee Resolutions ‑ 03 May 2012
Trust resettlements: Tax Commissioner withdraws ‘Statement of Principles’ ‑ 03 May 2012
Federal Government endorses IMR regime ‑ 23 December 2011
Excess contributions and TA 2010/2 withdrawn ‑ 05 December 2011
Director penalty regime extended to superannuation ‑ 25 October 2011
Trust Resettlements: High Court refuses Commissioner's application for special leave to appeal in Clark ‑ 16 September 2011
Investment Manager Regime - Exposure Draft legislation ‑ 14 September 2011
Streaming capital gains and franked dividends: don't miss the deadline - 31 August ‑ 22 August 2011
30 June deadline for dealing with 2010 UPEs looming ‑ 15 June 2011
Streaming capital gains and franked dividends in FY2011: We have legislation (and this is what you need to do by 30 June!) ‑ 03 June 2011
Further update on the Post-Bamford Streaming amendments: Bill expected to be introduced this week! ‑ 01 June 2011
Further update on the Post-Bamford Streaming Amendments: What your trust deed needs before 30 June 2011 and how we can help ‑ 29 April 2011
Post-Bamford Streaming Amendments: What your trust deed needs before 30 June 2011 ‑ 21 April 2011
Trading v Capital Draft Determination ‑ 13 April 2011
Division 7A& UPEs Final Practice Statement – time to review structures ‑ 22 October 2010
Tax debts: beware the SME ‑ 30 August 2010
Trust distributions post Bamford: what you need to do before 30 June 2010 ‑ 11 June 2010
MIT tax regime to commence from 1 July 2011 ‑ 10 May 2010
Division 7A & Unpaid Trust Distributions: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a UPE! ‑ 18 December 2009
Undisclosed offshore income: last chance to come clean before the gloves come off ‑ 03 December 2009
ATO targets foreign private equity investors ‑ 17 November 2009
Final Policy Statement about the Taxation of Employee Share Schemes ‑ 02 July 2009
Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated ‑ 05 June 2009
The death of Employee Share Schemes ‑ 14 May 2009
ATO Terrorising Trust Distributions to Bucket Companies ‑ 10 March 2009
Taxpayer wins Agricultural Managed Investment Scheme Case ‑ 20 February 2009
Guidelines for allocating the purchase price of a business ‑ 02 April 2008

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