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Mark Mathews

Legal Practitioner Director at Mathews Tax Lawyers Pty Ltd

14 years PQE
Brisbane, QLD, AU

Summary

I established Mathews Tax Lawyers to provide a personal and tailored experience for clients where they get to deal with the Principal one on one. Our clients include accounting firms, law firms, large private groups, small business and individuals.

Mathews Tax Lawyers can help you with:
• tax effective structuring, tax advice and opinions
• seeking a private ruling from the ATO
• ATO review and audit representation
• objecting to ATO decisions
• resolving tax disputes and negotiating settlements
• tax litigation – appealing ATO decisions and assessments to the AAT or Federal Court
• tax payment arrangements and proposals
• obtaining remission of tax penalties and interest

I have over 30 years’ experience in tax, including complex tax advice, rulings, objections, negotiating the resolution of complex tax disputes and running tax litigation in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and the Federal Court of Australia.

My previous roles include:
• Special Counsel, CMN Lawyers: national responsibility for running their Part IVC tax litigation practice.
• Tax Director, Toohey Reid: providing high level tax and structuring advice for SME's and HWI and management of tax audits.
• Director, EY Tax Controversy: running complex tax litigation, managing client strategy, responses to ATO audits and settling complex tax disputes.
• Principal Lawyer, Moore Stephens Tax Lawyers
• Principal, Moore Stephens Tax Consulting: providing advice on complex tax issues, representing clients in negotiations with the ATO, and ran AAT and Federal Court appeals.
• Barrister specialising in revenue law.
• Tax Counsel, ATO: determining the ATO view on a range of complex tax issues. My extensive experience at the ATO, spanning over 13 years in policy, technical and litigation areas, has given me a unique insight into the ATO's approach to interpretation, administration and dispute resolution.

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Level 10, 239 George Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000, Australia

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Admission to Practice, 2001

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